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Sustainability and ESG Analyst
Equity Bank Kenya
Posted 6 months agoNairobi, Kenya
Location
Nairobi, Kenya
Job Type
Full-time
Experience
Entry-Level
Category
Software Engineering
Job Description
The role focuses on environmental and social risk due diligence, ESG capacity building.
Key responsibilities include implementing sustainability risk frameworks and ensuring compliance through data analytics.
It also involves identifying and managing sustainability opportunities, supporting ESG policy development, assessing vendor risks and following up on action plans.
Administrative duties support the broader goal of integrating sustainability into financial operations while ensuring regulatory compliance and ESG growth.
The role is at
Senior
Officer level within the
Risk organization.
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Requirements
- Bachelors degree in a related discipline in environment or social sciences
- Sustainability and Climate Risk Specialist certification from Global Association of Risk Professionals GARP is an added advantage
- 2 to 4 years experience in ESG and sustainability
- 2 to 3 years of banking experience
- Environmental and Social Risk Assessment skills including conducting due diligence, site visits and compliance evaluations
- ESG and Sustainability Expertise with understanding of sustainability frameworks, green finance and climate related risks
- Regulatory and Compliance Knowledge ensuring adherence to environmental, social and financial regulations
- Data and Analytics Proficiency for managing sustainability reporting and tracking ESG performance
- Stakeholder Engagement skills for collaborating with clients, vendors and internal teams to drive ESG initiatives
- Training and Capacity Building experience for educating staff on sustainability principles and risk management
- Project and Action Plan Management for following up on ESG related action plans for clients and vendors
- Policy and Framework Implementation for contributing to ESG policy development and sustainability strategies
- Administrative and Organizational Skills for managing documentation, reporting and operational tasks efficiently
Responsibilities
- ESRM procedures implementation Quality Assurance for climate finance by generating and disseminating the monthly quality assurance report
- Conducting Environmental and Social Risk due diligence both desk top and site visit based for client facility and loan requests
- Conducting Health Safety and Environment Due Diligence HSESDD of suppliers and vendors
- Monitoring environmental and social performance of multiple portfolio clients
- Monitoring and tracking of client implementation of environmental and social risk action plans ESAPs
- ESRM and ESDD support for Equity Group Subsidiaries
- Financial mobilization on New to Bank
- Deposit growth from opportunities
- Green Finance Loan Growth
- Effective Implementation of Sustainability Risk Management Framework and Procedures in EBKL including training
- Supporting data and analytics on Environmental and Social Risk Management for compliance and DFI reporting
- Environmental and Social Risk Management through due diligence assessment of the requests assigned within the SLA
- Sustainability opportunities Management including follow up and closure on climate finance opportunities identified during assessment process
- Contributing to the wider organizational ESG policy, procedures and tool development and implementation
- Support supply chain with vendor E&S risk assessments during onboarding
- Follow up on closure of E&S action plans from client and vendor assessments
- General Administrative duties
