Lead/Head- Climate Finance

The role centers on identifying and enabling sustainable financing pathways that prioritize blue-collar worker well-being, using climate finance mechanisms, ESG frameworks, and corporate investment logic to drive systemic change. The professional will work across research, partnerships, and finance teams to develop a long-term strategy for impact-driven engagement with investors, lenders, and corporate actors.

Key Responsibilities:

Technical:

• Analyze how businesses make investment decisions, especially related to climate action and ESG.
• Identify financial instruments (e.g., green/concessional loans) that businesses can access and the associated reporting/social metrics.
• Translate worker well-being research into investor-relevant financial language (e.g., ROI, risk mitigation, productivity).
• Recommend adaptations to internal reporting frameworks to align with market-facing decision-making tools.

Strategic:

• Design engagement strategies to influence capital flows toward evidence-based worker programs.
• Map opportunities to embed worker-centric metrics into emerging climate finance and ESG tools.
  
• Shift business narratives: Position worker well-being as a strategic and profitable investment.
• Build internal capacity through training modules on ESG, impact metrics, and financial decision-making.
• Outline a roadmap for long-term partnerships, fundraising, and organizational structure alignment.

Focus Areas:

• Business & Financial Decision-Making: Understand capital allocation processes in climate-linked sectors. Surface non-financial (beyond-ROI) drivers of sustained workforce investment.
• Financing Instruments & Metrics: Identify capital sources used for climate action and their ESG/social criteria. Align internal research and metrics with green finance and blended finance frameworks.
• Organizational Capacity & Strategy: Strengthen internal systems to engage more effectively with financial stakeholders. Design internal learning journeys around a finance-informed impact strategy.

• 8-12 years of experience in finance, investment banking, fund management, or related sectors.
• Strong understanding of financial structuring, capital allocation, and sustainability finance.
• Demonstrated ability to translate research and non-financial data into finance-aligned narratives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.

Preferred:

• Experience in climate finance, ESG investing, or sustainability-linked lending.
• Familiarity with impact investing, green finance, or regulatory frameworks like ESG, CSDD, BRSR, and SEBI-linked reporting.
• Background in integrating social metrics into financial decision-making tools.
• Experience with concessional finance, blended finance, or working with financial institutions.