Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
Purpose
The Tiger Conservation Coalition (TCC) is looking for a Sustainable Finance Specialist or an environmental economist (to be based with ZSL) to support the development and implementation of nature financing instruments in support of tiger and tiger landscape conservation across current and former tiger range states.
Major Duties and Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain a work plan for the activities to be undertaken by the Sustainable Finance
- Specialist under the scope of this ToR
- Review and analyse the existing financing plans to select up to two mechanisms per landscape to test
- Perform further analytical work for the conceptual development, refinement and customization of the selected instruments, including but not limited to financial/economic analyses and calculations, revenues, expenditure and impact modelling, activity design and scenario-based forecasting to ensure the financial viability and alignment to conservation goals
- Develop detailed implementation plans for the selected mechanisms
- Define the legal, implementation, and monitoring and verification frameworks, including but limited to required partnerships, regulatory needs, and operational steps for each pilot
- Consult or guide the consultation with local stakeholders to assess willingness and readiness to participate in or contribute to the financing schemes
- Support the fundraising, investment readiness and roll-out of sustainable finance mechanisms in collaboration with local partners
- Share lessons learned and best practices with the Tiger Conservation Coalition
- Provide an outline of a sustainable finance strategic approach and action plan to be approved by the TCC and Finance Sub-Committee Chairs
- Facilitate technical discussions during TCC meetings and join Working Group meetings as and when required between TCC members.
- The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned from time to time that are in line with the level of the role
