Monitoring and Gender Officer

The Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) in partnership with the Presidential Climate Commission (PCC) has established the Just Transition Finance Mechanism (JTFM) to mobilise and channel finance towards inclusive locally owned and scalable just transition initiatives across South Africa. The JTFM is intended to address financing barriers that limit the implementation of just transition priorities at local provincial and national levels. Through the mobilisation of public private and concessional finance the mechanism seeks to support projects that create sustainable livelihoods strengthen community resilience promote social ownership and participation and advance South Africas transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy. Supported through funding from the International Climate Initiative (IKI) of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action the programme is being implemented jointly by DBSA and the PCC. The initiative focuses on strengthening stakeholder participation supporting local and provincial just transition planning developing a pipeline of investable projects mobilising transition finance and establishing a sustainable institutional platform for long-term implementation.

The Monitoring and Gender Officer is responsible for strengthening monitoring reporting accountability and learning systems to integrate gender equality youth participation and social inclusion across all project outputs consultations governance processes and reporting frameworks. Additionally act as the programmes gender focal point generating robust evidence through disaggregated data analysis and providing targeted recommendations that enhance inclusive institutional strengthening accountability and alignment with just transition principles.