Deputy Director-General, Green Growth Planning and Implementation

The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is the world’s newest international organization.  Headquartered in Seoul, it is a new kind of international organization – interdisciplinary, multistakeholder and driven by the priorities of emerging and developing economies – established by an initial group of eighteen governments pursuant to a treaty signed at the United Nations Rio+20 conference in June 2012. 

GGGI is dedicated to helping government and industry pioneer and diffuse a new model of economic growth, known as “green growth,” that integrates strong economic and environmental performance in such areas as poverty reduction, job creation and social inclusion as well as mitigation and adaptation to climate change, biodiversity loss and energy and water security.  Its approach is particularly suited to developing countries, because it starts from the premise that growth is an essential ingredient in economic and human development.

GGGI’s theory of change leads it to focus on three major outcomes:  adoption and implementation of analytically rigorous green growth plans that form the core of national and provincial economic development strategies in emerging and developing economies; research which builds a strong theoretical and empirical basis for green growth, while providing concrete options and guidance for policymakers; and public-private partnerships that enable the scaling of resource-efficient investment, innovation and practice in key industry sectors as well as the engagement of companies in the implementation of national and subnational green growth plans.

GGGI is already providing technical and capacity building support to over a dozen governments which are seeking to capitalize on the potential co-benefits of strong socioeconomic and environmental progress as well as gain better access to the public and private finance and technology that can help place their economies on a more sustainable and resilient development pathway.  It has launched several cutting-edge research and public-private partnerships with leading international institutions.  The organization’s strategic plan envisions considerable growth over the next three years.

JOB DESCRIPTION

The post holder will provide executive and intellectual direction to the organization’s core green growth planning and implementation work in emerging and developing economies.  The role will include:

• Responsibility for the strategic planning and delivery of GGGI’s green growth planning and implementation projects;
• Responsibility for building and integrating a global team of analysts to drive the organization’s policy advisory work;
• Working closely with the Director-General, the Assistant Director-General for Public-Private Cooperation and other senior management team members to frame and communicate the organization’s intellectual and research agenda;
• Participating in the organization’s Management Committee and thereby sharing collective responsibility with other members of the top management team for achieving the organization’s strategic objectives; and
• Representing the organization’s work in external settings, including in consultations with donors, and other international institutions.

The successful candidate will be educated to at least a Masters level and have strong practical and project management experience in the areas of development cooperation and resource and environmental economics.  Extensive experience working with and in developing countries is necessary.  Other requirements and desirable attributes include:

• A track record of thought leadership in the field of green growth and development economics
• Senior project management experience relating to development policy formulation and implementation in developing countries, preferably in such areas as micro/sectoral, macro-economics, energy, water, land use, etc;
• Leadership experience in an international setting;
• Fluent in English, both written and spoken;
• High degree of proficiency inanotherlanguage; and
• Excellent communications skills.

You will be expected to perform at the highest levels within a globally integrated organization that aspires to combine the results-orientation and entrepreneurship of the best private and non-governmental organizations with the transparency and accountability of the best public institutions.  The appointee will measure his/her success by results and have the resilience and maturity to manage internal relationships in a rapidly growing and ever changing organization.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested applicants should apply by 21 December 2012 to: recruiting@gggi.org(including position number in subject line is a MUST). GGGI will only contact candidates with whom GGGI wants to have further discussions. For more information on GGGI, please visit our website at www.gggi.org.