Job Description

Main purpose of job:

South Africa is the world's 14th largest Greenhouse gas emitter and its state electricity provider, Eskom, is one of the top emitting power companies. The South African Government's and Eskom's leadership opened the door to the launch of the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) at COP26 in November 2021 by the governments of South Africa, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, along with the European Union (International Partners Group-IPG).

The Partnership aims to accelerate the decarbonisation of South Africa's economy to help it achieve the ambitious goals set out in South Africa's updated Nationally Determined Contribution emissions goals.

All of which makes this an exciting opportunity to contribute to a top international priority that will have real world impact and address a major contributor to climate change.

It is a massive endeavour - following the publication at COP27 of South Africa's Just Energy Transition Investment Plan, work is now underway on the technical design and content of a South Africa Implementation Plan, helping ensure the $8.5bn of funding committed by the IPG is able to flow. With the UK acting as the co-ordinator of the International Partners Group, we have a key role to play in ensuring strong, coherent and coordinated engagement with our South African partners and more broadly to sustain political and technical momentum.

We are looking for a brilliant and enthusiastic Officer to lead on the private sector and private finance mobilisation element of the Just Energy Transition Partnership for the UK and in turn supporting the International Partners Group (US, UK, FR, GER, EU) and friends e.g. DK, NL, World Bank and Africa Development Bank on this top priority.

Roles and responsibilities:

• UK in South Africa is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace - our vision statement is that 'We are a diverse and inclusive workplace where all are respected, trusted, appreciated and empowered'. We hope you will play your part in delivering this inclusive culture.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Work with British International Investment (BII) and the Private Infrastructure Development Group (PIDG) - to support them in developing and supervising a balanced US$500 million equity, debt and guarantee investment portfolio for the Just Energy Transition. This will include referring specific investment leads to them, ensuring their initiatives are sufficiently additional, in line with their own ESG and investment mandate and well scoped and liaising with the Project Management Unit of the JET on proposals.
• Scoping and supervising key UK private sector grant programming for the Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) including 3 key workstreams related to Mpumalanga Province on (i)land rights (ii) finding pipeline of investment for a fund and (iii)agribusiness in Mpumalanga.
• Liaison with other development partners, including philanthropies, and the JET Project Management Unit - supporting them with best practice and ideas and coordination on private sector areas including on outcome based financing, mobilisation of financing including blended finance structures.
• Liaising with key SA stakeholders including the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) and Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA) in their role in private sector development areas including in green hydrogen.
• Keeping abreast of the xe2x80x9cstate of the marketxe2x80x9d via liaison with private sector investment partners around the JETP including funds, insurance and pension funds, asset managers and banks but also potentially some energy and infrastructure development companies.
• Additional private sector support to the South Africa office, including for example reviewing multilateral development bank private sector investment proposals and BII and PIDG's broader investment strategy for the Southern Africa region.
• Regular reporting into the central FCDO team in the UK which works on private finance mobilisation and which is funding this post.

Resources managed (staff and expenditure):

Between xc2xa31m and 1.5m of direct programming spend per annum

No staff

Essential qualifications, skills and experience

• Degree level experience required
• 3 to 5 years work in private sector e.g. bank, insurance company, law firm, consultancy or in similar role to this with another development partner

Technical requirements:

Ideally achieving some of the Technical Competencies for FCDO Private Sector Advisers at Expert level, especially regarding the Investment and Finance skills within the competencies)

• Investment - Good understanding of investment concepts - equity, debt, accounts and business plans/cash flow, different elements of the financial sector, SME development and stock market arrangements, credit ratings and credit enhancement concepts and environmental and social governance issues
• Understanding of concepts of market development, market failures, small and medium sized enterprise support
• Working knowledge of excel and understanding the excel models, although detailed financial modelling skills are not required
• Good drafting and powerpoint skills

Desirable qualifications, skills and experience

• CFA or MBA or Masters in Finance is desirable
• Experience in working in investment or finance e.g in a bank, law firm, consultancy is highly preferred
• Understanding of how private sector development programming works and development finance goals and partnerships is preferable but this could be learnt on the job
• Project / infrastructure finance understanding or deal structuring experience
• Experience in drafting or reviewing terms of reference, managing consultants and reviewing deliverables is strongly preferred

Required behaviours

Seeing the Big Picture, Making Effective Decisions, Communicating and Influencing

Application deadline Application deadline - day Application deadline - month Application deadline - year

28 September 2023

Grade

Grade 7 (G7)

Type of Position

Fixed Term

Working hours per week

36.5 hours

Duration of Post

18 months

Region

Africa

Country/Territory

South Africa

Location (City)

Pretoria

Type of Post

British High Commission

Number of vacancies

1

Salary

Between R 960,317.40 - R 1,165,093.65 (per annum) depending on experience and qualifications.

Start Date Start Date - day Start Date - month Start Date - year

1 November 2023

End Date End Date - day End Date - month End Date - year

31 March 2025

Other benefits and conditions of employment

Learning and development opportunities (and any specific training courses to be completed):

If they have the requisite experience the successful applicant will have the opportunity to accredit to the Private Sector cadre of specialists within FCDO via a process which is run approximately once every 12 months. This enables further learning - with up to 10% of time then able to be spent on projects for other countries/central FCDO and usually an annual learning and development conference

Opportunity to attend learning seminars from the Private sector cadre of specialists.

Working patterns:

Flexible working is permitted e.g. to fit around school pick up and drop up times or part time working, provided there is availability for meetings during some core hours.

The British High Commission pays in full for the Key Care Plus option on Discovery Health for staff including spouses/partners and dependants.

• Once you have successfully completed your probation the British High Commission will contribute 9% of your monthly salary to a Provident Fund.
• Annual leave entitlement of 25 days
• Working hours per week of 36.5 hours

Additional information

• Please complete the application form in full as the information provided is used during screening.
• Please check your application carefully before you submit, as no changes can be made once submitted.
• The British High Commission will never request any payment or fees to apply for a position.
• Employees recruited locally by the British High Commission in Pretoria are subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local employment law in South Africa.
• All candidates must be legally able to work and reside in the country of the vacancy with the correct visa/work permit status or demonstrate eligibility to obtain the relevant permit.
• The responsibility lies on the successful candidate to;
• Obtain the relevant permit
• Pay fees for the permit
• Make arrangements to relocate
• Meet the costs to relocation
• The British High Commission do not sponsor visas/work permits except where it may be local practice to do so.
• Employees who are not liable to pay local income tax on their Mission salary may have their salaries reduced by the equivalent local income tax amount.
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• Appointable candidates who were unsuccessful may be placed on a 'reserve list'. If during the reserve period of 6 /12 months the same or a largely similar role becomes available, that role may be offered to the second or subsequent candidatexe2x80x9d.

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