PROGRAM MANAGER, SUSTAINABLE FOREST FINANCE LEAD

PROGRAM MANAGER, SUSTAINABLE FOREST FINANCE LEAD

Location Luxembourg City Luxembourg Contract Type Staff Grade X10 Salary scale International Scale End date of appointment 3 years Deadline 02 / 02 / 2026 Job Reference RP26-30

Please note that the deadline is based on Korean Standard Time Zone (KST, UTC+9)

INTRODUCTION TO GGGI

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is a treaty-based international, inter-governmental organization dedicated to supporting and promoting strong, inclusive and sustainable economic growth in developing countries and emerging economies. To learn more please visit about GGGI web page.

Forests sit at the center of the international environmental agenda and are increasingly recognized as critical to climate mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable development. In recent years, global commitments including the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests, the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), UNCCD COP16 and UNFCCC COP30 outcomes have reaffirmed the urgent need to halt deforestation and accelerate restoration by 2030.

The European Union (EU) has been a global leader on forests and sustainable value chains, including through the European Green Deal, the EU Forest Partnerships, the Global Gateway, the EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products (EUDR), EU's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance, and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan, and EU’s associated support for MBD-led forest finance efforts such as the World Bank's Transformative Carbon Asset Facility (TCAF), Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (ISFL), and GGGI’s EU Sustainable Finance Trust Fund.

In this context, GGGI is implementing the Financing for Forests programme, which aims to enhance forest finance ecosystems in Lao PDR, Mongolia, Guyana, and Colombia over five years by piloting and scaling innovative financing instruments and strengthening the enabling environment for sustainable forest investment, and which is expected to expand to 4 additional countries.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Sustainable Forest Finance Lead – Project Manager will lead the implementation of GGGI’s Financing for Forests (F4F) programme, providing technical leadership, strategic coordination, and operational oversight to ensure high-quality delivery across the pilot countries.

The role will serve as the central point of accountability for managing programme workplans and budgets, guiding the design and delivery of sustainable forest finance instruments (fiscal incentives, performance-based revenue mechanisms, credit enhancement and forest credit lines), coordinating donor and EU engagement, and ensuring strong partner-country ownership and institutional anchoring of results.

The role will also ensure coherent governance through the Programme Steering Committee (PSC) and Country Steering Committees (CSCs), while supporting knowledge generation, capacity building, and high-level engagement through the Forest Finance Fellowship and global / regional advocacy efforts embedded in the programme design.

The Sustainable Forest Finance Lead – Project Manager will report to the Director of Sustainable Finance, and respective Country Representative in target countries, and will supervise a multi-country technical and delivery team.

PURPOSE

This position provides technical and delivery leadership for GGGI’s F4F programme, ensuring the programme designs, pilots, and scales credible, investable forest finance solutions across target countries. The Sustainable Forest Finance Lead – Project Manager will be accountable for end-to-end programme delivery, while also serving as the programme’s technical lead on forest finance, including :

• Structuring and advancing forest finance and associated governance mechanisms that improve project bankability and scale private capital flows into sustainable forest management, conservation, restoration, and deforestation-free value chains;
• Providing technical oversight on forest finance and associated governance approaches including fiscal incentives, performance-based revenue mechanisms (e.g., PES, carbon, biodiversity-linked revenues), and commercial finance and de-risking instruments (e.g., forest credit lines, guarantees, blended finance);
• Translating national priorities, EU expectations, and market realities into investment-ready pipelines, institutional reforms, and scalable financing models;
• Ensuring high-quality planning, budgeting, implementation, and reporting, and supporting effective governance through the Programme Steering Committee (PSC) and Country Steering Committees (CSCs).

ENGAGEMENT

The role requires high-level engagement and partnership management across EU institutions, national governments, financial institutions, technical partners, and global platforms.

Key engagement responsibilities include :

DELIVERY

This position is accountable for delivering the programme’s results, ensuring quality implementation, and managing operational excellence across multiple countries and workstreams. Key delivery responsibilities include :

Operational delivery and quality assurance

Results delivery against programme targets

Ensure delivery contributes to programme-level results, including :

Knowledge, capacity building, and leadership development

Programme expansion

REQUIREMENTS

QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Experience

Languages

FUNCTIONAL

CORPORATE

WORKING CONDITIONS

This is an X10 international (X10INT) role within GGGI’s salary scale. For the X10INT, the base salary starts at USD 93,480. In addition, GGGI provides 15% of base salary towards retirement plan / long-term savings, for eligible candidates, an expatriate allowance of 20% of base salary, 27 days of annual leave, and private health insurance that covers dental and vision.

GGGI is committed to providing a work environment that is sufficiently flexible to accommodate diverse life-cycle challenges and assist Staff members to achieve a better balance between work and personal / family commitments, thus ensuring high performance, long-term productivity, and well-being of Staff members.

Child protection – GGGI is committed to child protection, irrespective of whether any specific area of work involves direct contact with children. GGGI’s Child Protection Policy is written in accordance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child.