Head of Climate Resilient Development
Job Brief
The Head of Climate Resilient Development leads KINETIK’s climate-resilient and low-emissions portfolio, providing strategic and technical oversight across priority sectors based in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Head of Climate Resilient Development
Program Background
KINETIK, the Australia-Indonesia Climate and Sustainable Infrastructure Partnership, supports Indonesia to strengthen sustainable infrastructure systems, mobilise climate-aligned investment, and advance low-emissions and climate-resilient development. Working with the Government of Indonesia (GOI) and a broad network of public and private partners, the program seeks to expand investment in sustainable infrastructure while ensuring the inclusion of local communities, particularly women, girls and people with disabilities.
KINETIK contributes to three inter-related End of Program Outcomes (EOPOs):
KINETIK is supported by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and implemented by DT Global.
About DT Global Asia Pacific
At DT Global Asia Pacific, we aim to positively impact people’s lives through delivery excellence. As a leading implementing partner across Asia and the Pacific, we co-create locally led solutions in partnership with governments, communities, and stakeholders. We bring together talented teams and deep regional expertise to deliver initiatives that promote inclusive economic growth, essential services, and resilient, secure communities. With over 1,500 staff, experts in 22+ countries and more than 60 years of development experience, we tackle complex community, national and transnational challenges — from governance and justice systems to climate resilience, infrastructure and social equity — with innovative thinking and a commitment to long-term impact.
For more information, please see www.dt-global.com
The Role
The Head of Climate Resilient Development is a senior leadership position responsible for KINETIK’s climate-resilient development portfolio, encompassing sustainable infrastructure systems and broader climate mitigation and adaptation initiatives. The role provides technical leadership across priority sectors, ensuring that sector development, project preparation, and system-level interventions support low-emissions and climate-resilient outcomes.
The Head of Climate Resilient Development is responsible for technical leadership across KINETIK’s priority sectors and cross-sector climate initiatives, including renewable energy, water, sanitation and solid waste, sustainable transport, and broader climate resilience and low-emissions development interventions. The role leads the technical development of KINETIK’s climate-resilient development pipeline, ensuring sector strategies and project concepts are translated into well-defined, feasible, and investment-ready opportunities that support climate resilience, GEDSI, and inclusive development outcomes. Financing structuring and transaction execution are led by the Head of Financing and Transactions, within the strategic direction set by the Deputy Director Financing and Delivery.
As a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), the Head of Climate Resilient Development contributes to strategic decision-making and program governance, with primary responsibility for the technical leadership and delivery of the infrastructure and cross-sector climate portfolio under the direction of the Deputy Director Financing and Delivery. The role works closely with the Head of Financing and Transactions to ensure projects are developed to a standard that supports financing and investment, and with the Head of Policy and Partnerships to ensure sector activities are aligned with policy, regulatory, and partnership frameworks.
The role is also expected to serve as KINETIK’s senior climate specialist, providing leadership across both policy and technical dimensions of climate mitigation and adaptation as they relate to infrastructure systems. The role ensures that KINETIK’s sector engagement supports a broad range of climate-resilient development outcomes, including both infrastructure and non-infrastructure interventions where these contribute to investment readiness, system strengthening, and climate impact.
The Head of Climate Resilient Development will enable sector Leads (Renewable Energy, Water, Sanitation and Solid Waste and Sustainable Transport) to engage directly with the Policy, Partnerships and Inclusion (PPI) pillar on policy and partnerships relevant to their sectors, ensuring end-to-end coherence across the program's sector engagement.
These senior leadership roles are being recruited concurrently. DT Global will consider candidates across aligned technical and management profiles, with final role configuration and responsibilities calibrated to ensure the strongest overall leadership team composition across the Financing and Delivery, Climate Resilient Development, and Financing and Transactions functions.
Click on the link or copy paste it to access the full Terms of Reference for this position:
https://tinyurl.com/hocrd
About You
Essential Experience and Knowledge
Why join KINETIK?
By joining the KINETIK, you will be part of an environment where you can collaborate with leading experts from diverse backgrounds, access development programs to achieve your career goals, and be challenged to take a global outlook.
How To Apply
Click the ' Apply Now ' button.
Please submit
Should this role be of interest, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Kindly note only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
People with lived experience of the regions in which DT Global operates are strongly encouraged to apply. DT Global welcomes applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds including First Nations peoples, diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC), and people with disabilities.
We take a zero-tolerance approach to sexual exploitation, abuse and harm of adults and children; fraud, corruption and bribery; modern slavery; and any form of exploitation across our operations, partnerships, and supply chains. We uphold the highest standards of integrity and expect the same of those we work with.
Engagement with DT Global is subject to formal background screening, criminal record checks, employment verification, and periodic compliance checks. All DT Global staff receive safety, compliance, safeguarding and integrity training, and we expect our personnel and partners to always act in alignment with our company values.
The Head of Climate Resilient Development leads KINETIK’s climate-resilient and low-emissions portfolio, providing strategic and technical oversight across priority sectors based in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Head of Climate Resilient Development
Program Background
KINETIK, the Australia-Indonesia Climate and Sustainable Infrastructure Partnership, supports Indonesia to strengthen sustainable infrastructure systems, mobilise climate-aligned investment, and advance low-emissions and climate-resilient development. Working with the Government of Indonesia (GOI) and a broad network of public and private partners, the program seeks to expand investment in sustainable infrastructure while ensuring the inclusion of local communities, particularly women, girls and people with disabilities.
KINETIK contributes to three inter-related End of Program Outcomes (EOPOs):
- Climate resilience: Investments from government, private and community actors increasingly contribute to climate mitigation and adaptation in Indonesia.
- Innovative financing: GOI increasingly uses diverse, innovative and high-quality financing to support inclusive, climate-resilient development.
- Sustainable infrastructure: GOI delivers sustainable and resilient economic infrastructure, particularly in water, transport and energy, that meets the needs of communities, including women, people with disabilities and marginalised groups.
KINETIK is supported by the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and implemented by DT Global.
About DT Global Asia Pacific
At DT Global Asia Pacific, we aim to positively impact people’s lives through delivery excellence. As a leading implementing partner across Asia and the Pacific, we co-create locally led solutions in partnership with governments, communities, and stakeholders. We bring together talented teams and deep regional expertise to deliver initiatives that promote inclusive economic growth, essential services, and resilient, secure communities. With over 1,500 staff, experts in 22+ countries and more than 60 years of development experience, we tackle complex community, national and transnational challenges — from governance and justice systems to climate resilience, infrastructure and social equity — with innovative thinking and a commitment to long-term impact.
For more information, please see www.dt-global.com
The Role
The Head of Climate Resilient Development is a senior leadership position responsible for KINETIK’s climate-resilient development portfolio, encompassing sustainable infrastructure systems and broader climate mitigation and adaptation initiatives. The role provides technical leadership across priority sectors, ensuring that sector development, project preparation, and system-level interventions support low-emissions and climate-resilient outcomes.
The Head of Climate Resilient Development is responsible for technical leadership across KINETIK’s priority sectors and cross-sector climate initiatives, including renewable energy, water, sanitation and solid waste, sustainable transport, and broader climate resilience and low-emissions development interventions. The role leads the technical development of KINETIK’s climate-resilient development pipeline, ensuring sector strategies and project concepts are translated into well-defined, feasible, and investment-ready opportunities that support climate resilience, GEDSI, and inclusive development outcomes. Financing structuring and transaction execution are led by the Head of Financing and Transactions, within the strategic direction set by the Deputy Director Financing and Delivery.
As a member of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT), the Head of Climate Resilient Development contributes to strategic decision-making and program governance, with primary responsibility for the technical leadership and delivery of the infrastructure and cross-sector climate portfolio under the direction of the Deputy Director Financing and Delivery. The role works closely with the Head of Financing and Transactions to ensure projects are developed to a standard that supports financing and investment, and with the Head of Policy and Partnerships to ensure sector activities are aligned with policy, regulatory, and partnership frameworks.
The role is also expected to serve as KINETIK’s senior climate specialist, providing leadership across both policy and technical dimensions of climate mitigation and adaptation as they relate to infrastructure systems. The role ensures that KINETIK’s sector engagement supports a broad range of climate-resilient development outcomes, including both infrastructure and non-infrastructure interventions where these contribute to investment readiness, system strengthening, and climate impact.
The Head of Climate Resilient Development will enable sector Leads (Renewable Energy, Water, Sanitation and Solid Waste and Sustainable Transport) to engage directly with the Policy, Partnerships and Inclusion (PPI) pillar on policy and partnerships relevant to their sectors, ensuring end-to-end coherence across the program's sector engagement.
These senior leadership roles are being recruited concurrently. DT Global will consider candidates across aligned technical and management profiles, with final role configuration and responsibilities calibrated to ensure the strongest overall leadership team composition across the Financing and Delivery, Climate Resilient Development, and Financing and Transactions functions.
Click on the link or copy paste it to access the full Terms of Reference for this position:
https://tinyurl.com/hocrd
About You
Essential Experience and Knowledge
- Postgraduate qualification in engineering, environmental / climate science, urban planning, or a related field.
- Minimum 12 years of experience in infrastructure and/or climate-resilient development, with demonstrated expertise in climate-resilient and sustainable infrastructure, including at senior leadership level.
- Strong track record of leading infrastructure and/or climate-resilient development portfolios across multiple sectors (energy, water, sanitation and waste and transport).
- Demonstrated experience working with government agencies (including infrastructure, environment, or natural resource agencies) and development partners.
- Experience with DFAT-funded programs or similar donor-funded development initiatives.
- Strong understanding of climate resilience principles and their application to infrastructure and cross-sector systems.
- Experience in Indonesia or Southeast Asia climate and development (including infrastructure) contexts.
- Experience with climate finance or blended finance approaches.
- Experience integrating GEDSI considerations into infrastructure design and delivery.
- Indonesian language skills (for international applicants).
Why join KINETIK?
By joining the KINETIK, you will be part of an environment where you can collaborate with leading experts from diverse backgrounds, access development programs to achieve your career goals, and be challenged to take a global outlook.
How To Apply
Click the ' Apply Now ' button.
Please submit
- Your CV
- A cover letter addressing the selection criteria
Should this role be of interest, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Kindly note only shortlisted applicants will be contacted.
People with lived experience of the regions in which DT Global operates are strongly encouraged to apply. DT Global welcomes applications from individuals with diverse backgrounds including First Nations peoples, diverse Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression, and Sex Characteristics (SOGIESC), and people with disabilities.
We take a zero-tolerance approach to sexual exploitation, abuse and harm of adults and children; fraud, corruption and bribery; modern slavery; and any form of exploitation across our operations, partnerships, and supply chains. We uphold the highest standards of integrity and expect the same of those we work with.
Engagement with DT Global is subject to formal background screening, criminal record checks, employment verification, and periodic compliance checks. All DT Global staff receive safety, compliance, safeguarding and integrity training, and we expect our personnel and partners to always act in alignment with our company values.