Overview
The Head of Risk will contribute to delivering UNEP FI Risk programming, ensuring it aligns with commitments and strengthens the Risk Centre’s value proposition to members. The role supports UNEP FI’s strategy on risk-related topics for financial institutions and regulators.
Key Responsibilities
- Engagement of 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 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.
- 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.
- Support the industry, policy & regulation, thematic teams and regional teams on proposal development and delivery to advance sustainability risk management in the financial sector.
Required Experience
At least eight (8) years of experience in financial services in a risk-related role or commercial consulting is required. This experience should be relevant for examining climate/environmental risks, financial sector policies and regulation. Ideally experience of a financial institution’s adoption of approaches aligned with TCFD/TNFD frameworks to integrate climate/nature into risk processes.
Qualifications
A master’s degree in risk, law, economics, finance, business administration or related fields is required. A bachelor’s degree could be taken in lieu of master’s degree provided the selected candidate has 10 years of relevant experience.
