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Job Title: ESG Specialist

Vacancy Details

Vacancy Number: DB_EX/HO/026/25
Vacancy Posting End Date: 16/02/2025

Job Summary 

• ESG Specialist is responsible  for identifying and  implementing sustainability initiatives that address environmental issues, ensuring compliance with all relevant regulations, and driving continuous improvement in the Bank's environmental, social, and governance practices The role holder is also responsible for engage with various stakeholders, including investors, customers, regulators, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), to understand their concerns and incorporate their feedback into the Bank's ESG strategy.

Academic and Professional Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Environmental Engineering, Environmental or Social studies, Environmental Science, Sustainability Development Studies, Development Finance/ Economics, Technology, or a related field.

• Relevant professional qualification(s) in ESG an added advantage.

Relevant Experience

• Minimum of  six (6) years relevant experience 

Required Behavioral & Leadership Competency:

• Interpersonal and cross-cultural skills, including ability to build collaborative relationships with sensitivity to diversity/inclusion.

• Creativity and innovation skills.

• Action oriented.

• Quality focus and attention to detail.

• Professionalism and integrity in line with Dashen Bank values.

• Good oral and written communication skills.

• Critical and analytical thinking and problem solving skills.

• Personal motivation and drive exhibited through commitment to hard work, continuous improvement and achievement of goals.

• Good customer relationship management skills (internal and external customers).

•  Risk awareness and focus - demonstrates understanding of risk management practices, standards and regulatory requirements.

Required Technical Competency

• Strategy management - (Planning, Evaluating, Implementing, Monitoring and evaluation).

• Knowledge and experience in ESG practices to initiate and implement tactical changes.

• Good understanding or experience of the fields of ESG.

• Extensive use of project management approaches including setting project plans, budgets and schedules.

• Experience developing linkages and dependencies between strategy and processes for inter-departmental activities and units and developing mechanisms to ensure integrated transformations.

• Ability to review, interpret and make precise inferences from a wide range of business reports and data, including budgets, financial reports, business intelligence reports.

• Budgeting and monitoring skills.

• Project management skills.

• Ability to lead, influence and drive change initiatives in support of business strategies within the department/unit.

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