Innovative Finance Advisor

We are looking for an Innovative Finance Advisor to join the Humanitarian Innovative Finance Hub (HIFHUB), hosted by the Danish Red Cross, and lead our new Pipeline Accelerator Initiative

Do you have strong financial modelling skills and experience in humanitarian or development settings? Are you eager to use your financial modelling skills and literacy to make a positive impact as part of the world’s largest humanitarian movement -The Red Cross and Red Crescent ? And do you enjoy working with stakeholders from diverse cultures and backgrounds to generate ideas and develop new approaches to future humanitarian financing?

If so, you might be our new Innovative Finance Advisor!

Background

Innovative finance has emerged in the humanitarian sector as a diverse set of established financial approaches, models and instruments - such as blended finance, disaster risk finance, carbon finance and impact investing. What makes them innovative in this context is not the mechanisms themselves, but the way they are applied to humanitarian challenges through new types of partnerships and ways of working.

The Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, along with other humanitarian actors, has tested a range of innovative financing models to develop solutions that can be replicated and scaled. We cannot and do not seek to replace grants as the core business model in neutral, impartial, and independent humanitarian action. However, humanitarian innovative finance can articulate much needed partnerships across sectors. By blending grants with public and private capital, we can generate humanitarian impact both within humanitarian response and across the humanitarian-development nexus.

The Humanitarian Innovative Finance Hub (HIFHUB)

The HIFHUB is a Red Cross initiative, hosted by the Danish Red Cross, and launched in 2023 to promote and support the wider use of innovative finance mechanisms across the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. Our aim is to expand access to essential services, enhance climate resilience, and improve financial inclusion for individuals and communities in vulnerable situations by leveraging innovative finance to design and deliver responses and services that are more efficient, equitable, and impactful.

The HIFHUB pursues this mission by strengthening the ecosystem, developing capacity and knowledge on innovative finance, providing advisory services, and supporting the modelling, piloting and scaling of innovative finance approaches in the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement. HIFHUB activities are carried out in close collaboration with partners both within and beyond the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, positioning the HIFHUB as a resource that complements and enhances ongoing humanitarian programmes and innovative finance initiatives. 

The position

You will be part of the HIFHUB core team and work closely with other team members with expertise within finance, humanitarian programming, capacity development, partnerships, and communications. You will also collaborate with key stakeholder across the Red Cross Red Crescent Movement, as well as external partners, such as investors and other private sector partners.

More specifically, you will be the project lead of our new Pipeline Accelerator Initiative, a flagship effort to identity, build, and support a pipeline of high-potential projects integrating innovative finance solutions across Red Cross and Red Crescent National Societies. You will work closely with Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies to generate ideas and help transform programme components and concepts into investment-ready projects.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Lead the design and implementation of the Pipeline Accelerator Initiative, including structuring its three phases: 1) Design, 2) Ideation & road mapping, and 3) Project maturity & scaling. This includes coordinating contributions from team members and ensuring strong complementarity with other Red Cross Red Crescent initiatives.
• Conduct proactive outreach and engagement with Red Cross Red Crescent National Societies to identify and onboard participants to the Pipeline Accelerator Initiative.
• Guide National Societies through ideation, road mapping, and project development providing hands-on support in financial structuring, investor engagement, and capacity building, helping to translate programme ideas into investment-ready projects.
• Act as the key link between humanitarian programs and financial actors facilitating cross-sector partnerships with the financial sector and industry, and helping tackle challenges.
• Support resource mobilization and knowledge development by identifying promising ideas and partnership opportunities, being part of the development of high-quality proposals, and contributing to research pieces, lessons learned, best practices, explainers and guidelines.

Your profile

The HIFHUB is seeking a dynamic, ambitious, and adaptable professional who is motivated by tackling big global challenges and exploring new approaches. We are looking for an energetic colleague, who will thrive as part of our small and ambitious team. We offer significant opportunities to influence the Hub’s development and success. The ideal candidate is a proactive self-starter, who can work independently, while also being a committed and supportive team player who appreciates a not-for-profit environment.

• 7–10 years’ experience in relevant finance fields (e.g., blended finance, disaster risk finance, impact investing, sustainable investment, risk modelling, debt/equity products)
• Proven ability to design, structure, and implement finance solutions and partnerships
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills across diverse contexts
• Advanced analytical and modelling skills and solid business acumen (e.g., insurance, capital markets, investing, strategy consulting).
• Experience in the humanitarian/development sector
• Strategic, critical thinker with strong problem‑solving abilities and a results‑oriented mindset.
• Able to work independently and collaboratively, with flexibility in a dynamic environment.
• Experience as an advisor/consultant is an advantage.
• Excellent English communication skills; French, Arabic, or Spanish an advantage.

Application and further information

We look forward to receiving your application and CV through our online recruitment system. Interviews are expected to take place during February (1st round) and March (2nd round) with an expected start date as soon as possible and no later than May 1st 2026.

The position is a full-time role (37 hrs per week) hosted by the Danish Red Cross in Copenhagen. Salary and employment conditions follow the Danish Red Cross collective bargaining agreement and includes a pension scheme and six weeks holiday per year.

Desired start date: As soon as possible, no later than May 1st, 2026.

In you have any questions or would like more information please contact: Anne-Sofie Munk, HIFHUB Director, anmun@rodekors.dk, +45 26 74 40 48.

We look forward to hearing from you!

The HIFHUB is hosted by the Danish Red Cross and established for the benefit of the entire Red Cross Red Crescent (RCRC) Movement. This Movement is the world’s largest humanitarian movement comprising the International Committee of the Red Cross, (ICRC), the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and 191 National Societies worldwide. HIFHUB operates within the strategies and priorities of the Red Cross Red Crescent movement, and is guided by its seven fundamental principles: humanity, impartiality, neutrality, independence, voluntary service, unity, and universality.