The position can be based in Vientiane, Lao PDR, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, or Bogotá, Colombia. 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 Global 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 integral 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 F4F Credit and Risk Instruments Sr. Officer will lead the design and structuring of credit, guarantee, and blended finance mechanisms. The role covers forest credit lines, credit-enhancement mechanisms, revolving funds and forestry finance windows, and concessional/blended facilities, working with financial institutions and regulators to mobilize commercial and concessional ca

📌 Senior Officer, Credit (Colombia)
🏢 Global Green Growth Institute
📍 Colombia