Senior Consultant – Climate and Sustainable Finance

Management Level Senior Associate Job Description & Summary At PwC, we help clients build trust and reinvent so they can turn complexity into competitive advantage. We’re a tech-forward, people-empowered network with more than 364,000 people in 136 countries and 137 territories. Across audit and assurance, tax and legal, deals and consulting, we help clients build, accelerate, and sustain momentum. Find out more at https://www.pwc.com/ke. PwC has a presence in 22 African countries, including over 41 office locations. With more than 400 partners and 10,000 professionals across Africa, we serve some of the continent’s largest businesses across all industries. In East Africa, our member firms work together across the East Market Area (EMA) to build trust in society and solve important problems. Our in-depth knowledge and understanding of operating environments in the region enable us to put ourselves in our clients’ shoes and offer tailored solutions to complex business and development challenges. Within the Advisory Line of Service, our International Development and Public Sector Consulting team works with Governments, Development Partners, Financial Institutions, Non-Governmental Organizations, and the Private Sector to address key development challenges and contribute to sustainable, inclusive, and climate-resilient economic growth. We are seeking a Senior Consultant – Climate and Sustainable Finance to support the design and delivery of advisory engagements across Kenya and the wider East Market Area (EMA). The role will focus on supporting governments, international NGOs, development partners, financial institutions, multilateral institutions, and private sector actors to design, implement, and track climate and sustainable finance programmes and investment initiatives. The successful candidate will support assignments that help clients move from strategy and concept development through to financing alignment, implementation support, monitoring, and impact reporting. This role is suited to a professional with grounding in climate finance, sustainable finance, development finance, investment analysis, and project preparation, and with the ability to work across policy, programme, and transaction-related assignments.

Climate and Sustainable Finance Strategy and Advisory Support clients to design and strengthen climate and sustainable finance strategies, financing frameworks, green investment approaches, and capital mobilisation roadmaps. Contribute to the development of financing approaches for climate mitigation, adaptation, resilience, and broader sustainable development priorities. Advise clients on financing mechanisms, institutional arrangements, governance models, and accountability approaches that improve the effectiveness, transparency, and impact of climate and sustainable finance. Support alignment of financing strategies with national priorities, climate commitments, donor objectives, investor expectations, and sustainable development outcomes. Support the identification of practical implementation pathways that translate strategic priorities into investable programmes and projects, including appropriate financing, delivery, and institutional arrangements. Blended Finance Support the design of blended finance structures, investment vehicles, and capital mobilisation approaches that crowd in private capital alongside public and concessional funding. Contribute to advisory assignments involving fund structuring, catalytic finance, guarantees, concessional financing, viability gap funding, and other de-risking instruments. Support analysis of financing gaps, capital needs, fund design considerations, and investor participation models for climate and sustainable investment programmes and facilities. Assist clients in identifying and assessing suitable financing partners, instruments, and structuring options for climate and sustainable investments. Project Preparation and Investment