Investment Officer, Climate Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Please note that the deadline is based on Korean Standard Time Zone (KST, UTC+9)

INTRODUCTION TO GGGI
The Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is a treaty-based international, inter-governmental organization dedicated to supporting and promoting strong, inclusive and sustainable economic growth in developing countries and emerging economies. To learn more please visit about GGGI web page.

POSITION SUMMARY
The Officer will support the Project Manager by providing technical leadership and oversight for implementation of acceleration and ecosystem activities. The role requires someone who can lead engagements with consulting firms, review technical deliverables, ensure quality control, and provide day-to-day oversight of outputs related to startup support, MRV, IP frameworks, and ecosystem building.

This position demands a highly experienced professional with a strong track record in accelerator programs, startup support, venture development, stakeholder engagement, and monitoring consultant work.

PURPOSE
Provide support the Project Manager in the delivery of Components 1 and 4 in Indonesia.
Lead day-to-day coordination with government, private sector, incubators, accelerators, and innovation ecosystem actors.
Oversee sourcing, selection, and capacity-building of climate technopreneurs and local startups.
Cultivate and manage relationships with startups, angel investors, early-stage funds, corporate innovation units, and technology providers, ensuring strong networks for investment readiness, market access, and follow-on funding. 
Contribute to ecosystem engagement activities, including forums, workshops, and N-CEAP roadshows.
Support technology review, including assessment of climate technology solutions, market fit, scalability potential, and suitability for technology transfer or joint-venture (JV) arrangements
Assist in drafting MRV tools, impact indicators, and inputs into national IP/innovation frameworks.
Provide technical inputs related to investment readiness, business models, and early-stage financing.

ENGAGEMENT
1. Oversight & Quality Assurance of Consultants

Support PM on coordination with consulting firms, technical experts, ecosystem partners, and implementing contractors.
Review, validate, and provide structured feedback on technical reports, venture diagnostics, curriculum design, MRV tools, IP framework inputs, and assessment outputs.
Ensure all deliverables meet GGGI quality standards, donor requirements (GCF), and government expectations.
Manage timelines and deliverables to ensure consultants and partners stay on schedule.
Flag risks and issues early to the PM and support solutions.
2. Acceleration Program Leadership

Oversee consultant-led acceleration modules, ensuring curriculum, content, and venture support tools are sound and relevant.
Support PM on review and refine all materials produced by consultants (modules, toolkits, diagnostic tools, venture scorecards, etc.).
Ensure mentors, trainers, and external experts deliver high-quality sessions aligned with program objectives.
3. Ecosystem Partnership Management

Support PM on stakeholder engagement with:
Government agencies
Accelerators, incubators, venture studios
Private sector associations (KADIN, etc.)
Universities, research bodies, and innovation hubs
Ensure alignment between ecosystem actors, consultants, and program goals.
4. Program Implementation & Strategic Support

Support PM in developing work plans, monitoring frameworks, and implementation strategies.
Lead routine monitoring of progress and troubleshoot implementation bottlenecks.
Provide the PM with technical inputs for decision-making, especially on innovation, entrepreneurship, and venture readiness.
5. Reporting & Deliverable Validation

Consolidate consultant outputs into program reports.
Validate findings, ensure methodological rigor, and flag inconsistencies.
Support PM in preparing donor reports, government briefs, and presentations.

DELIVERY
The candidate is expected to deliver the following:

Support the PM in the implementation of Components 1 & 4, including work planning, activity coordination, and reporting.
Provide technical inputs to the National Climate Entrepreneur Acceleration Program (design, shortlisting, capacity building).
Take the lead in Drafting technical notes, event summaries, and simple business model/investment-readiness inputs.
Provide input for development of MRV and M&E tools, ensuring gender and inclusion integration.
Oversee the organization of business forums, demo days, and climate innovation events.
Contribute strategically to Indonesia’s green investment pipeline (~10% of time).

QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, economics, finance, engineering, entrepreneurship, public policy, or related fields.
Preferably 5 years of experience in country-level work experience, in project or program support or management, preferably in climate innovation, entrepreneurship, technology acceleration, or green growth.
Experience (3+ years preferred) in startup support, venture building, innovation programs, business incubation, or accelerator project management, particularly with startups, MSMEs, or impact ventures, is highly desirable.
Experience in investment readiness, business model development, or pitch coaching.
Knowledge of early-stage financing, venture capital, or grant funding processes.
Experience in project management, including planning, reporting and financial management.
Demonstrated experience working with government institutions, development partners, or the private sector in Indonesia.
Familiarity with climate finance mechanisms, such as GCF or other related programs, is desirable.
Experience in climate tech, social innovation, digital transformation, or circular economy sectors is desirable
Experience in developing financial models for startups or SMEs, particularly for investment readiness and funding proposals, is desirable.
Ability to lead and work effectively with people from diverse cultural and professional backgrounds.
Excellent English and Indonesian oral and written communication skills, including public speaking.

FUNCTIONAL
Proven ability to develop and maintain strong relationships with GGGI partner institutions.
Experience in policy formulation, capacity building and multi-stakeholder engagement.
Understand Government policy and implementation at national and sub-national levels in Indonesia’s multi-sectoral context.
Strong organizational and management skills with experience in integrating safeguards, gender, poverty reduction and social inclusion.
Knowledge of green investment principles and climate financing.
Experience managing projects involving international and local consultants.
Experience in conducting project MRV and M&E, with strong integration of gender equality and social inclusion will be an asset.
Ability to work in systematically and innovatively with sound decision-making. Skilled in writing clear reports and maintaining database effectively.
Capability to perform in demanding atmosphere with self-motivation to deliver quality results in timely manner.

CORPORATE
Understand and actively support GGGI’s mission, vision and values.
Promote an organizational culture of trust, transparency, respect and partnership.
Excels at problem solving, asks questions and seeks support when needed, easily shares information and knowledge with others both internally as externally.
Manage emotions and stress positively, build rapport and resolves conflict easily.
Strong ability to work independently and/or remotely, while maintaining productivity.

WORKING CONDITIONS
Officer is an X8 grade level in GGGI’s National salary scale.
Determination of base salary is subject to candidate's experience, academic background and internal equity.
GGGI provides 15% of base salary towards retirement plan/long-term savings, 27 days of annual leave, and private health insurance that covers dental and vision.
GGGI is committed to providing a work environment that is sufficiently flexible to accommodate diverse life-cycle challenges and assist Staff members to achieve a better balance between work and personal/family commitments, thus ensuring high performance, long-term productivity, and well-being of Staff members.
The chosen candidate is expected to be based in Jakarta, Indonesia, and will report to the Project Manager.
This is a national position and does not include relocation benefits.

INTRODUCTION
Based in Seoul, Republic of Korea, the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) is an intergovernmental organization founded to support and promote a model of economic growth known as “green growth”, which targets key aspects of economic performance such a poverty reduction, job creation, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. GGGI works with countries around the world, building their capacity and working collaboratively on green growth policies and green investment projects that can impact the lives of millions. The organization partners with countries, multilateral institutions, government bodies, and private sector to help build economies that grow strongly and are more efficient and sustainable in the use of natural resources, less carbon intensive, and more resilient to climate change.

Currently, GGGI supports the Government of Indonesia (GoI) under the joint GoI-GGGI Green Growth Program (GGP, “the Program”). The Program aims to demonstrate that green investments can become the norm both for investors and planners, ultimately improving the quality of economic development for more environmental sustainability and social inclusion. Through the Program, GGGI collaborates with the Ministry of Development Planning (BAPPENAS), the Coordinating Ministry of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (“PT SMI”) and others.

GGGI has been collaborating with the Korea Development Bank (KDB) in the design of the GCF Program “The Collaborative R&DB programme for Promoting the Innovation of Climate Technopreneurship (FP240)” (the Program) to support climate technology industries and entrepreneurship in Southeast Asia. The funding proposal (total project size USD 221 million) was approved by the 39th Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting in July 2024. (https://www.greenclimate.fund/project/fp240)

The Program is composed of four components:

Component 1. Country Driven Acceleration Readiness
Component 2. Global Acceleration for Collaborative R&DB (R&D + Business)
Component 3. Climate Technopreneurship Fund (CTF)
Component 4. Technical Assistance (TA) for Strengthened Ecosystem
The Program will create an incubation and acceleration platform to build capacity of local entrepreneurs, support joint ventures and technology transfer between local entrepreneurs and global climate technology firms, and strengthen the ecosystem for climate technology in five countries in Southeast Asia – Cambodia, Lao PDR, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Viet Nam. The Program will contribute to their transition to low emission and climate-resilient development and enable investment in climate ventures/companies in the region by establishing a USD 200 million Climate Technopreneurship Fund co-financed by the GCF and private investors.

GGGI will lead country-level acceleration readiness activities (Component 1) and ecosystem building (Component 4) as an Executing Entity (EE) together with KDB. The program will invest in approximately 40 companies in climate technology and business in the region, expecting to ultimately avoid 1.6 million tons of GHG emissions and reach 2.3 million direct and indirect beneficiaries.