UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) – Head of Risk

Result of Service

Through these services, the Head of Risk should be able to contribute to delivering the following. In summary:

• Engagement of the Risk teams into UNEP FI Risk programming with a view to engaging the CROs.
• Ensuring the Risk programme contributes to implementing the PRB, PSI, and climate commitments, enhancing work plans and materials to strengthen the Risk Centre’s value proposition to UNEP FI members.
• Support UNEP FI’s strategy and offering on risk-related topics relevant to banking, insurance, sustainability themes and financial regulators and supervisors.
• Facilitate the Risk Team’s role as a centre of excellence across UNEP FI’s workstreams.
• Assess the current and projected needs of financial institutions concerning environmental and social risks and advancing forward-looking integrated risk management for future resilience.
• Clarify the business case for enhancing integration of sustainability issues into risk management processes of banks.
• Risk work programme development and delivery. Develop a robust work programme to convene key internal and external stakeholders to develop cutting-edge, science-based content to strengthen sustainability-related risk solutions and prudential risk management in the financial sector.
• Develop resources to address the needs of banks to advance sustainability risk management.
• Conduct a technical review of materials and outputs produced by the Risk team to ensure high- quality deliverables and a coherent approach to risk-related elements of banks and insurers’ sustainability journeys. Ensure relevance for the financial sector on upcoming priorities in the field of environmental and social risk and consider how those topics might be integrated into current and future Risk programme sessions or working groups.
• Establish risk-related partnerships (e.g. service providers/modelers/academic institutions that would benefit UNEP FI members on advancing science-based approaches to risk analysis and management to strengthen resilience.
• Develop long-term resourcing plan for the Risk programme, within UNEP FI’s membership model.
• Promote UNEP FI Risk outputs and offerings online and at in-person events.
• Provide input into the communications strategy of UNEP FI to communicate the Risk programme offerings to financial institutions’ risk teams in the context of PRB, PSI and climate commitments. Contribute to UNEP FI-wide work planning on risk.
• Support the industry, policy & regulation, thematic teams and regional teams on proposal development and delivery to advance sustainability risk management in the financial sector.

Work Location

Working remotely / Home-Based

Expected duration

6 months

Duties and Responsibilities

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