Carbon Finance Lead

This role is for someone who blends financial sophistication with a practical, deal-making mindset and who can operate comfortably in an early-stage startup, high-growth environment. You’ll help unlock capital for project pipelines, build trusted relationships across climate finance, and partner with our internal teams to ensure our projects are investable, scalable, and aligned with evolving market expectations around integrity and impact.

Key responsibilities

Strategic Financing Leadership

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.

Project Financing & Capital Structuring

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.

Capital Partnerships & Investor Relationships

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.

Investment Case Development

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

Experienced Financing Leader

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.

Capital Markets & Climate Finance Fluency

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.

Strategic + Execution-Oriented

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.

Hands-On Deal Contributor

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

Collaborative Builder

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

Mission-Driven

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