Carbon Finance Lead

About Us

About the role

Key responsibilities

• Define and execute project financing strategy, aligned with the company’s mission, investor roadmap, and project pipeline.

• Review and refine financing models, capital planning frameworks, and decision-making tools to support portfolio-scale growth.

• Support leadership on forecasting, financing milestones, pipeline prioritisation, and financing-related KPIs.

• Identify, structure, and support closing of financing deals across the project lifecycle, including early-stage and pilot project financing and milestone-based capital.

• Design and package financing approaches that reduce risk for capital providers and accelerate project implementation.

• Help develop investable project structures, including capital stack design, term sheets, and risk allocation.

• Build and cultivate strategic relationships with investors, financial institutions, family offices, DFIs, and funds active in climate and nature-based finance.

• Lead engagement processes with capital partners, from initial outreach through diligence and final investment decision.

• Serve as a credible external representative in climate finance settings, ensuring high trust and integrity in the way capital partnerships are built.

• Work with internal teams to develop compelling investment narratives, financial models, and materials for project and platform financing.

• Support data and assumptions required for due diligence, including delivery milestones, risk/return profiles, and implementation capacity.

• Coordinate with our Assessment Team to ensure financing structures are aligned with on-the-ground delivery realities.

Who you are

• You bring significant experience in project finance, climate finance, structured finance, or investment advisory, with a track record of supporting or closing complex capital deals — ideally linked to climate, energy, nature-based solutions, or frontier markets.

• You understand how institutional and private capital behaves, and you can navigate blended finance, catalytic capital, impact-linked instruments, and risk-adjusted project financing.

• You’re comfortable shaping structures that satisfy both return expectations and impact requirements.

• You can craft a long-term financing vision, but you also enjoy the day-to-day reality of progressing deals — refining materials, pushing diligence forward, and problem-solving through complexity.

• You don’t just advise from a distance — you proactively move financing conversations forward, engage partners directly, and contribute to deal structuring and closure.

• You are comfortable working across teams and can help establish repeatable financing playbooks, templates, and systems as the company scales.

• You’re committed to climate impact and aligned with values around integrity, equity, and science-led solutions.

What we offer

• Shared purpose, culture and values

• A diverse team of colleagues, partners and clients based all around the world

• Meaningful equity in an early-stage startup with a growing and trusted brand

• Significant autonomy and influence at the leadership level

• The opportunity to shape the future of nature-based climate finance

• Performance-based variable compensation/commissions

• Flexible working environment with a team deeply committed to impact

• Generously enhanced, gender-neutral parental leave policy

• Wellbeing support, including company-funded access to therapy