Overview
The Green Finance Policy Analyst will provide strategic advisory support to strengthen Moldova’s green finance policy ecosystem in alignment with EU accession requirements and the country's reform agenda. The role focuses on strategic guidance, policy positioning, and institutional coordination.
Key Responsibilities
- Review and provide strategic assessment of the existing national policy and regulatory framework related to green finance, sustainable investment, climate and energy financing, and ESG reporting.
- Identify high-level policy, regulatory, and institutional gaps that may constrain the mobilization of public and private capital for green transition objectives.
- Develop a strategic policy alignment roadmap for green finance in line with the EU Accession Implementation Plan.
- Provide strategic advice to responsible authorities on integrating green finance considerations into national economic development, energy, climate, and public finance frameworks.
- Provide senior-level advisory support in EU accession–related negotiations and bilateral screening processes related to sustainable finance and green investment frameworks.
- Guide the preparation of an analytical paper from a green finance perspective.
- Provide conceptual inputs on medium-term (5 years) and long-term (10–15 years) financing needs and economic implications of green transition policies.
- Advise on the strategic application of market-based instruments.
- Ensure that socio-economic and gender dimensions are strategically integrated.
- Support the formulation of clear, policy-oriented recommendations.
- Provide strategic guidance on aligning green finance priorities with the Integrated National Financing Framework.
- Assess, at a strategic level, the landscape of public, private, donor, and IFI financing instruments relevant to green transition.
- Advise on options to crowd in private sector investment.
- Provide strategic recommendations on strengthening national financing mechanisms.
- Advise on linking green finance priorities with the medium-term expenditure framework (MTEF) and broader public finance reforms.
- Explore policy-level options for developing more self-sustaining national green financing schemes over time.
- Assess the overall readiness of the national capital market ecosystem to support green instruments.
- Identify strategic barriers to introducing and scaling sustainable finance instruments.
- Provide policy-level recommendations to align capital market practices with EU sustainable finance standards.
- Advise on institutional and regulatory reforms that could stimulate issuer and investor participation.
- Provide strategic direction for strengthening institutional capacity in green finance.
- Identify capacity gaps across public institutions, regulators, and market actors.
- Design a high-level capacity development framework.
- Support the conceptual design of trainings, workshops, and policy dialogues.
- Provide strategic facilitation and high-level coordination support among relevant ministries, financial regulators, the central bank, capital market institutions, private sector representatives, donors, and IFIs.
- Support high-level dialogue with EU institutions and development partners.
- Provide strategic advice on integrating green finance indicators into national monitoring frameworks.
- Provide strategic advice on strengthening evidence-based decision-making and institutional coordination in green finance.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 2 years (with Master’s degree) or 4 years (with Bachelor’s degree of proven professional experience relevant to the finance area in a EU country or international level.
- Working experience in the EU finance legislation harmonization process or/and accession negotiations in finance sector.
- Proven experience providing high-level strategic policy advice to government or regulatory institutions.
- Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.).
- Experience in working with local and/or national governments (desired).
- Experience in working with UNDP (desired).
- Experience working with international institutions in the finance field (desired).
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in Finance, Business Administration, European Studies, International Relations, Law, or other relevant fields is required; OR
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- Any relevant certification on sustainable finance.
