Senior Manager, Green Growth

Responsibilities:

Team Leadership and Practice Development:

• Lead the day-to-day operations of the Green Growth team, managing and mentoring analysts, associates, consultants, and external specialists.
• Build team capability and develop the practice’s service offerings, tools, templates and delivery standards.
• Capture lessons from assignments and maintain a repository of deliverables, credentials, and proposal inputs.

Delivery and Technical Quality:

• Lead and manage Green Growth assignments and technical workstreams end to end.
• Prepare and review client-ready reports, strategy documents, policy briefs and presentations, ensuring they are analytical, practical, and well-written.
• Coordinate inputs from colleagues, external specialists and client counterparts, and escalate delivery, resourcing and quality risks.

Climate Strategy and Sector Transition:

• Lead green growth strategies, climate action plans, low-carbon development strategies and sector transition roadmaps.
• Lead just transition frameworks, policy and regulatory reform roadmaps, state climate strategies and climate-aligned development partner programmes.
• Translate client climate ambition into sector priorities, institutional actions and implementation roadmaps.
• Lead sector work across energy transition and clean cooking, climate-smart agriculture and AFOLU, green industrialisation, e-mobility, water and waste, sustainable cities, resilient infrastructure, nature-based solutions and critical minerals.

Climate Finance, Governance and Carbon Markets:

• Lead climate finance diagnostics, gap and readiness assessments, strategies and roadmaps, and advise clients on finance sources and development partner priorities.
• Lead climate budget tagging, climate investment planning and climate finance institutional strengthening.
• Lead climate institutional diagnostics, governance frameworks, and coordination mechanisms.
• Lead Article 6 and voluntary carbon market readiness, carbon market policy, MRV framework design, and NDC and LT-LEDS implementation support.

Resilience, Sustainability and Decarbonization:

• Lead climate risk and vulnerability assessments, adaptation plans, resilience strategies and adaptation finance readiness.
• Lead sustainability strategies, ESG readiness and materiality assessments, and climate disclosure readiness.
• Lead GHG inventory support, decarbonization roadmaps, net-zero pathways, circular economy strategies and green procurement frameworks.

Business Development and Client Engagement:

• Lead smaller technical proposals and contribute technical content, methodologies, workplans and credentials to larger proposals, EOIs and pitch materials.
• Identify new client needs and emerging opportunities and maintain a pipeline of Green Growth work.
• Engage government agencies, development partners, DFIs, investors, private-sector actors and civil society, and facilitate interviews, workshops and technical working sessions.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 8 years’ relevant experience in climate, green growth, sustainability, climate finance, carbon markets, resilience, ESG or related fields.
• Strong experience supporting or leading advisory assignments for government, development partners, DFIs, corporates or investors.
• Demonstrated depth in several areas: climate strategy; climate finance readiness; climate governance; carbon markets and MRV; adaptation and resilience; ESG and decarbonization.
• Experience managing workstreams and cross-functional teams.
• Strong research, analysis, writing, and presentation skills, with the ability to run multiple assignments against competing deadlines.
• Strong understanding of Nigerian and/or African development, climate or public-sector contexts.

Desirable:

• Postgraduate degree in climate, environmental policy, sustainability, economics, engineering, finance, public policy or a related field.
• Familiarity with NDCs, LT-LEDS, Article 6, voluntary carbon markets, GCF/GEF/CIF-type finance, climate budget tagging, ESG disclosure frameworks, and GHG accounting.
• Experience working with multilateral development banks, bilateral donors, climate funds, or government agencies.
• Experience contributing to proposals, concept notes and EOIs, and relevant professional certifications.