Key Facts

Remote From:

Full time

Senior (5-10 years)

English

Hard Skills

Life Cycle Assessment Carbon Accounting Impact Assessment Secondary Research Slack (Software) Primary Research ClickUp (Software) Productivity Software ISO 14000 Series Impact Assessment Business Development Program Design Program Evaluation Stakeholder Communications Cross-Functional Collaboration

Other Skills

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Microsoft Excel
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Microsoft PowerPoint
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Management
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Team Leadership
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Verbal Communication Skills
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Collaboration

Roles & Responsibilities

At least 8-10 years of relevant experience in climate impact assessment, measurement, or related fields.
Ability to work remotely from anywhere in India; Chennai base is a bonus.
Willingness to travel for events, business meetings, and mandatory company retreats every 4-6 months.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to coordinate cross-functionally with internal teams, external funders, and project stakeholders.

Requirements:

Work with early-stage climate tech startups to design and develop user-friendly impact measurement toolkits for their business models to measure and report climate impact to investors and clients.
Build tailored impact assessment frameworks that enable investors and entrepreneur support organizations to track and enhance the performance of their climate tech portfolios.
Apply carbon accounting and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodologies (e.g., GHG Protocol, ISO 14064, SimaPro, OpenLCA) to model and track climate impacts for climate tech startups.
Support startups in collecting, interpreting, and communicating impact data to investors, funders, clients, and ecosystem partners.

Job description

This is a remote position.

About Climate Collective

Climate Collective is an India-based non-profit, focused on empowering entrepreneurs focused on climate change and the circular economy throughout the Global South.

Over the years, Climate Collective has grown to become the largest Climate Tech startup support platform in South Asia (and soon, expanding across the Global South). We run market accelerators, facilitate capital through our platforms, provide ecosystem tools and services and community support. Please view our company page on LinkedIn and website for more information.

About the ‘Impact Assessment Vertical’ at Climate Collective

We have a large climate tech startup portfolio, and we support them in measuring and reporting their climate impact to investors and clients. We have developed a Climate Metrics Guide for Small and Growing Businesses in partnership with the Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE). We have developed easy-to-use climate mitigation as well and adaptation and resilience (A&R) focused impact measurement tools in partnership with Habitat for Humanity's Terwilliger Centre ,the ASAP Accelerator project and WWF Climate Solver Project.

We are also a knowledge contributor on the South Asia Working Group of Prime Coalition, to create case studies on climate A&R solutions for investor-focused impact assessment and reporting.

Requirements

We are looking for a motivated and dynamic individual as a Technical Expert for our Impact Vertical. As a technical expert you will lead and support strategic initiatives under the vertical that includes climate impact assessment and reporting for early-stage climate tech businesses, ecosystem engagement, and program design and assisting Impact Lead in business development and expanding the impact vertical.

You should have at least 8-10 years of relevant experience

You can be located anywhere in India, as the position is remote. We also have an upcoming project in Chennai, so if your base location is Chennai, that would be a bonus.

However, travel is required for attending events/ business meetings and mandatory company retreats (every 4-6 months)

Required

Work with early-stage climate tech startups to design and develop user-friendly impact measurement toolkits for their business models that can enable them to easily measure and report climate impact to stakeholders like investors and clients

Build tailored impact assessment frameworks that enable investors and entrepreneur support organizations to track and enhance the performance of their climate tech portfolios

Apply carbon accounting and LCA methodologies (e.g., GHG Protocol, ISO 14064, SimaPro, OpenLCA, to name a few) to model and track climate impacts for climate tech startups

Support startups in collecting, interpreting, and communicating impact data to investors, funders, clients, and ecosystem partners

Ability to conduct primary and secondary research on globally recognized impact assessment frameworks, tools, and methodologies and analyze the relevance and adaptability of these frameworks to cater to the needs of startups, investors and other ecosystem stakeholders.

Develop and manage MEL frameworks to assess programmatic outcomes as well as and portfolio-level outcomes of Climate Collective

Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to maintain cross-functional coordination and collaboration between internal team, external funders and project stakeholders

Excellent skills in Excel, Word and PowerPoint, and a general appreciation for systems and productivity tools (we use Click Up, Slack and a few others)

Not mandatory, but good to have

Prior knowledge and experience of working with startups

Strong managerial capabilities and the confidence to step into a leadership position would be a bonus for this role

Most importantly (and especially since we're a distributed team), we like people who are entrepreneurial, and intrinsically motivated about working with climate tech startups

Educational Qualifications

Required:

A master's degree or equivalent in a relevant field such as: