Associate - Climate Solutions
Associate - Climate Solutions
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07-04-2025
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About us
The India Climate Collaborative (ICC) registered as Council of Philanthropies for Climate Action (CPCA) is a collective working to identify critical sectors that need investment drive funding towards climate solutions and enable private and corporate philanthropy to engage more effectively with climate action. We work closely with the climate ecosystem including research organisations implementers government stakeholders businesses and more as well as engage with our domestic and international donor base to ensure that funding flows towards highimpact climate solutions. We were founded by some of Indias preeminent corporate and philanthropic leaders including Rohini Nilekani Ratan Tata Anand Mahindra Nadir Godrej and others.
Our team is a small tightknit group driven by a shared passion for achieving the ICCs mission and vision. An ideal addition to our team is a selfstarter always willing to roll up their sleeves and get stuff done. We prefer candidates with a good eye for detail commitment to a high quality of output and a teamcentric mindset.
Role
The ICC seeks an Associate to support sourcing and curation of climate solutions for philanthropy (private and corporate philanthropy). As part of our CSR initiatives through a platform called Earth Exponential we simplify the climate ecosystem for funders by connecting them with vetted nonprofits implementing climate solutions. Our role is to surface projects with the right climate lens and facilitate meaningful funding opportunities.
We are looking for a climate generalist with a strong interest and/or experience in working with grassroots partners or nonprofits on implementation and in undertaking a systemslevel approach to addressing climate change. They should have experience with project management and impact measurement be interested in strategizing and creating programmelevel processes enjoy working with people and building relationships across the ecosystem and have an interest in capacitybuilding and fundraising.
Reporting to the to the Lead Climate Solutions & Corporate Philanthropy
Responsibilities
- Building an understanding and perspective on climate issues to inform strategy and direction for climate solutions work for the ICC
- Support in building a project curation strategy for philanthropy (corporate & private) and sourcing new projects based on an understanding of the climate sector in India
- Supporting the evaluation of high impact climate solutions based on a dynamic set of selection criteria for shortlisting projects
- Supporting solution providers (CSO/NGO/Think Tanks etc. for preparing proposals pitches decks for submission/presentations to funders
- Maintaining a database of solution providers and regular updation to keep the proposals and potential solutions up to date
- Support internal mapping of potential projects based on funder priorities and Indias needbased priorities/INDCs
- Building and maintaining hightrust relationships with solutionproviders and managing relationships with key influential technical capacitybuilding and outreach partners in the climate as well as development ecosystems
- Coordination with NGO/CSO for project implementation and regular reporting monitoring & evaluation
- Building knowledge and understanding around climate solutions in India with a range of different stakeholders as well as supporting public outreach for the ICC
- Supporting the facilitation of capacity building efforts for stakeholders on the platform such as workshops training sessions and learning exchanges
- Supporting fundraising efforts by joining calls or meetings with the fundraising team to represent the projects and solutions appropriately to potential donors
- Providing additional expertise and support for other sectoral initiatives at the organization as and when needed
- Liaising with the team for crossfunctional support and external stakeholders or vendors to ensure processes such as due diligence and website development are efficient and thorough
Requirements
- 34 years of experience in project implementation at a nonprofit with strong understanding of the development ecosystem in India
- Bachelors/Masters degree in the field of climate change environmental science public policy international relations and/or related fields with at least 2 years of relevant work in the climate sector
- Basic understanding of domestic corporate philanthropy
- Strong inter personal skills and experience in partnership management
- Comfortable working with minimum supervision and capable of building strategies
- A demonstrated record of effective communication(both written and verbal)
- Ability to manage deadlines process information from multiple sources and compile and articulate in a presentable manner
- A selfstarter
- Passionate about climate action and ICCs theory of change
What we Offer
- Working with the leading minds on climate change across philanthropy research institutions government and implementing organisations as part of Indias climate movement
- Growth and exposure in a quickly growing startup organization with a young team committed to professional development
- Opportunity to institute best practices and develop ICC traditions and be part of building the experience of working at the organisation.
- A competitive salary based on industry standards
Terms of employment
Location: Mumbai
Timeline
Prospective candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible and will be interviewed on a rolling basis. Due to the small capacity of our team only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
The India Climate Collaborative registered as the Council of Philanthropies for Climate Action is an equal opportunity employer.
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