About Intellecap:

Founded in 2002, Intellecap Advisory Services Private Limited (Intellecap) is the entrepreneurial ecosystem building arm of the Aavishkaar Group, a pioneer in providing innovative business solutions that help build and scale impact enterprises dedicated to building a more equitable, sustainable, and inclusive society.

Intellecap takes an ecosystem approach that combines knowledge, capital, technology, and networks to provide impact entrepreneurs with a continuum of support throughout their life-cycle and address systemic barriers. We do this by operating at two different levels.

At the first level, we directly support organizations that invent or create novel solutions with capital, acceleration, fundraising, technical assistance, innovation transfer, and market linkages.

At the second level, we focus on building enabling ecosystems for innovations to scale by engaging with a range of actors such as value chain players, investors, philanthropies, corporations, governments, and intermediaries.

We leverage our convening and amplification platform Sankalp to augment our effort to search, seed, support, and scale impact enterprises across sectors. We have worked with over 300 clients on over 500 consulting and research engagements across multiple geographies. We are a group of 7000+ professionals in offices across India, Kenya, and Indonesia.

Intellecap's Climate Change and Energy team focus on:

- Building ecosystems and supporting entrepreneurs for energy access and climate action.

- Working with off-grid and decentralized renewable energy stakeholders to increase their capacity, efficiency, and potential to scale in the developing economy markets.

- Areas such as sustainable cities and communities, climate change mitigation and adaptation, access to energy and energy efficiency for MSMEs, access to energy to rural households, and sustainable and resilient smart villages.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Project Execution

- Leading the project teams and the on-ground execution of deliverables as per project & client requirements

- Identifying white spaces and opportunities for the Climate Change & Energy team to meaningfully contribute towards solving challenges for low-income communities in developing countries

- Supporting the development of institutional frameworks including proprietary approaches and methodologies and subject matter expertise (through hires and partnerships)

- Co-creating strategic and operational plans in collaboration with Sector Lead and corporate strategy team

- Working with the senior team members to manage communication channels with the client while identifying cross-sell / up-sell opportunities

Business Development

- Tracking business development opportunities in climate change, energy access, carbon sequestration, ESG, and energy efficiency space

- Leading proposal development in the areas of technical content, financial planning, human resource planning, and management

- Coordinating with other sector teams and technical experts for requirements of preparing technical write-up for proposals

- Supporting in the business development opportunities from international and bilateral agencies, as well as Government clients in alignment with the strategic plan of Intellecap in general and the climate change and energy sector in particular

- Working with the senior management in developing and executing a sector growth strategy

- Over time, assume increased responsibilities as a member of the senior management team

Brand Building

- Building institutional relations and brand of the company in the climate and related sectors

- Developing articles, concept notes, and whitepapers on strategic topics for publications and internal consumption

- Identify capacity-building needs among the Associate and Senior Associate and provide support for career development

Developing the team, building talent:

- Planning the organization's growth and mapping the competencies required to meet these goals

- Identify and fill key roles the practice

- Designing and driving the mechanism for effective performance management and reward system for the practice

- Be part of the team that contributes towards developing the domestic and global strategy for the consulting practice at Intellecap. Undertake relevant national and international field travel and exposure as and when required

Qualifications

- A Master's degree in Engineering, Energy and/or Climate Studies, Renewable Energy, Development Studies, Environmental, and Natural Resource Management, or related fields.

- Experience working in research, Business development, and program

management in renewable energy, climate change, and/or related sectors,

- Experience in business consulting, Climate change adaptation, mitigation, climate tech solutions, climate change policy, climate finance, and decentralized power generation, and carbon market, climate finance (both in terms of fundraising efforts and fund management), understanding of voluntary carbon markets and carbon trading mechanisms, work on nature-based solutions (land sinks, ocean sinks, etc.), climate-smart agriculture, ESG, and climate data analytics, net-zero pathways, and work on climate policies (like NDCs, state

action plans, etc.).

- Experience working on long-term Technical Assistance Projects in Climate Change, Energy, carbon, and related sectors

Essential Skills

- Good MSOffice skills (MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint) and self-reliant in developing and formatting documents.

- Excellent report writing and presentation skills.

- Excellent communication skills: able to communicate complex information.

- Open to working in a multicultural environment and effectively in small and large teams.

- Fluency in English: ability to deliver messages effectively verbally and in writing.

- Strong conceptual as well as analytical skills, both quantitative and qualitative

- Fluency in English, and ability to deliver the message effectively verbally and in writing

Role level will be aligned based on experience and fit.

Intellecap is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace diversity across all backgrounds and identities, committed to fostering an inclusive workplace where every qualified individual can thrive