Overview
Director, Resilience & Climate Action Department Jobs in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia at Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)
Title:
Director, Resilience & Climate Action Department
Requisition
Overview Business Unit:
Operations – Global Practices and Partnerships Directorate
Department:
Resilience and Climate Action
Country:
Saudi Arabia
Location:
Jeddah HQ
Job Grade: M3
Contract Type:
Fixed Term
Closing Date: 30-Jul-2026
Job Purpose The role will provide leadership, set strategic direction, ensure resource availability and coordinate activities for thematic areas (i) Climate Change, (ii) Environment and Social Safeguards, (iii) Fragility, Conflict, and Resilience (FCR) affected situations, (iv) Disaster Risk Management, (v) Emergency Relief, (vi) NGOs/CSOs and third sector, (vii) Women Empowerment, and (viii) Youth Development in MCs. Accordingly, the Director will lead the teams of Climate Change & Environment Division, Fragility and Resilience Division, and Women & Youth Empowerment Division, and report to the Director General GPP.
The incumbent will undertake Annual Planning and ensure the Department achieves its Key Performance Indictors and results in line with the strategy of the Bank. Responsible for elaborating development solutions and upstream advisory work related to these thematic areas in coordination with the Bank Sector expertise centers, and for leading the implementation and administration of Bank’s policies and strategies under his responsibilities and delivering projects/programs in MCs by working with both internal- and external partners.
The incumbent will advise the Management on strategic level engagement in areas of responsibilities.
Key Accountabilities Policy, Strategy and Planning
- Serves as a high level focal point and ‘resource center’ for all matters pertaining to the thematic areas of the department, name: climate change, environment, women empowerment, youth development, fragility, conflict, resilience, natural disasters, emergency response, civil society and NGOs engagements issues within the Bank and the IsDB Group.
- Provides high level thematic leadership to the preparation of Member Countries Partnership Strategies in collaboration with the relevant stakeholder teams.
- Provides necessary inputs to the management, coordination, and implementation, as they relate to the key focus areas of the Bank Corporate Strategy.
- Provides high level technical guidance and oversee portfolio monitoring teams, including through the integration of relevant indicators, metrics and tools in the design, conceptualization, client relations, analytics, and interpretation of high quality data needed to deliver monitoring results.
- Provides high level leadership to the Bank’s external partnership in all matters related to Resilience and Social Action Department with the objective to improve Bank’s visibility and developing and nurturing networks.
- Oversees the collaboration with other pillars/ sectoral/thematic teams to ensure dissemination of tailored knowledge and expertise to support project implementation and ensures that crosscutting issues such as climate change, environment, women empowerment, youth development, capacity development, fragility, conflict, resilience, natural disasters, civil society, and NGOs engagements are adequately addressed.
- Ensures that the Department shares key knowledge and learning outcomes from/for the thematic areas of the Department.
- Leads the development of short and medium term Global plan and programs to be implemented in MCs.
- Directs the preparation of policy briefs and notes; keeps abreast of international developments and advancements in the Resilience and Climate Action areas across 57 MCs and globally.
- Oversees the development of key results targets and performance indicators (KPIs) related to delivery of action plans of the thematic areas of the department.
- Ensures Department provision of strategic contribution to the Bank’s annual budgeting process, resources, and allocation of budget.
- Identifies business process improvements and ensures changes to the quality team for the update of the Operations Manual.
- Represents IsDB in local and international forums to speak on climate change, environment, women empowerment, youth development, capacity development, fragility, conflict,…
Title: Director, Resilience & Climate Action Department
Company: Islamic Development Bank (IsDB)
Location: Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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