The position may be based in either Bogotá, Colombia, or Vientiane, Lao PDR. Please indicate your preferred duty station in your cover letter.

Forests sit at the center of the international environmental agenda and are increasingly recognized as critical to climate mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and sustainable development. In recent years, global commitments including the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests, the Kunming–Montreal General Biodiversity Framework (GBF), UNCCD COP16 and UNFCCC COP30 outcomes have reaffirmed the urgent need to halt deforestation and accelerate restoration by 2030.

The European Union (EU) has been a global leader on forests and sustainable value chains, including through the European Green Deal, the EU Forest Partnerships, the Global Gateway, the EU Regulation on Deforestation-Free Products (EUDR), EU's Forest Law Enforcement, Governance, and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan, and EU’s associated support for MBD-led forest finance efforts such as the World Bank's Transformative Carbon Asset Facility (TCAF), Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF)



BioCarbon Fund Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes (ISFL), and GGGI’s EU Sustainable Finance Trust Fund.

In this context, GGGI is implementing the Financing for Forests program, which aims to enhance forest finance ecosystems in Lao PDR, Mongolia, Guyana, and Colombia over five years by piloting and scaling innovative financing instruments and strengthening the enabling environment for sustainable forest investment, and which is expected to expand to 4 additional countries.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Fiscal Instruments Expert will lead the diagnosis, structuring and regulatory design of fiscal instruments and incentive mechanisms across the four countries (Colombia, Guyana, Lao PDR, and Mongolia). The role will be in charge of specialized technical fiscal diagnostics, revenue-earmarking mechanisms, tax and duty design, and taxonomy/regulatory frameworks to ensure technical and legal

📌 Senior Officer, Fiscal Instruments (Bogotá)
🏢 Global Green Growth Institute
📍 Bogotá