UNEP Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) – Technical Specialist Capacity Building Consultant South Africa

The consultant’s services will be pivotal in advancing UNEP FI’s strategic objectives to integrate nature into the core decision-making processes of financial institutions. By supporting the application of ENCORE and developing structured frameworks, heatmaps, and replicable case studies, the consultant will deliver concrete outputs such as material sector analyses, exposure assessments by business line, and derived priority actions. These outputs will demonstrate best practices for embedding nature-related considerations into credit risk, customer risk assessments, sector policies, and portfolio strategies—particularly for agriculture portfolios. Through targeted capacity building, training, and board-level engagement, the consultant will support PRB signatory banks in setting and operationalizing practice-level targets related to governance, policies, and processes, including the integration of nature into customer risk assessments and front-end decision-making. These efforts will directly support alignment with the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and reporting maturity in line with the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD). Moreover, the consultant’s work will deliver a proof of concept for an advanced, agriculture-focused capacity-building and implementation program in South Africa. This will include demonstrable outcomes such as trained staff, client engagement strategies, transition and nature finance opportunities in the pipeline, and published case studies that can be replicated by other banks across South Africa and the African region.