Associate Sector Lead Sector Lead Climate Smart Livelihoods, Bangalore

Role: Associate Sector Lead / Sector Lead - Climate Smart Livelihoods Bangalore
Experience: 12 years
Salary: Upto 30 LPA

Key Deliverables:

The leader of the Climate Smart Livelihoods Sector is expected to drive systemic change through enterprise support focusing on:

• Scaling up startup solutions aimed at income enhancement and livelihoods resilience in both urban and rural contexts.
• Implementing a systems-level approach to integrate supported startups into existing rural value chains (e.g. agriculture and allied sectors).
• Building and launching new startup-centered initiatives specifically focused on urban livelihoods.
• Deploying blended finance solutions to address critical credit and working capital challenges faced by early-stage enterprises.

Role & Responsibilities

1. Acceleration and Business Support

• Program Leadership: Lead and manage accelerator programs focused on sustainable urban and rural livelihoods.
• Hands-on Support: Provide direct support to enterprises to improve product-market fit accelerate sales and create measurable social and environmental impact.
• Model Validation: Work collaboratively with startup teams Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs) and other intermediaries to validate and strengthen enterprise models.

2. Partnerships & Fundraising:

• Stakeholder Engagement: Drive proactive engagement with key external stakeholders including impact investors research organizations Monitoring Evaluation and Learning (MEL) partners and relevant government agencies.
• Funding Strategy: Use program insights and market trends to support the Partnerships team in raising new funding for sectoral initiatives.
• Proposal Leadership: Lead the development and pitching of proposals to secure new grants and investments.

3. Advocacy & Communication

• Insight Generation: Generate critical insights from field visits and enterprise performance data to continuously improve the organizations effectiveness in delivering results.
• Champion Transformation: Serve as a champion for the organizations core hypothesis of combining market development demand generation and credit enablement through blended finance mechanisms.

Candidate Requirements

Experience and Education:

• Experience: 15 or more years of experience in large-scale program operations or implementation leadership preferably in the education or social development sectors.
  • This experience should include a combination of rural sales marketing operational roles livelihoods financing or development finance.
• Education: A Masters degree in Social Sciences or Economics OR deep sectoral specialization in agriculture (and related fields) or renewable energy solutions.
• Sectoral Knowledge: Working knowledge in one or more topics related to impact investing agriculture value chains waste management and social entrepreneurship is required.
• Donor Exposure: Exposure to grant or donor project execution is desirable.

Skills and Mindsets:

• Leadership: Excellent people-management skills and the ability to lead diverse teams fostering high levels of initiative and ownership.
• Communication: Effective communication and persuasion skills required to influence internal and external stakeholders.
• Data Command: Strong numerical ability and data interpretation skills with proven ability to use operational data to drive coordination and accountability.
• Action Bias: High degree of ownership and a bias for action with a willingness to be hands-on and frugal.
• Adaptability: Ability to work with ambiguity and innovative ideas in a dynamic environment.

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Hiring Note: Applications will be reviewed on rolling basis. This job is first posted on Dec 4 2025 on any questions ping us on WhatsApp Chat helpline: 91-