Location: Mumbai, India

About Aavishkaar Group:

Aavishkaar Group is a global impact platform focused on bridging opportunity gaps for the emerging three billion.

Operating across India, Emerging Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Group drives financial inclusion, MSME financing, and ecosystem building to enable sustainable growth in underserved markets.

With over USD 1 billion in impact assets, its ecosystem includes Aavishkar Capital, Arohan Financial Services, Ashv Finance, and Intellecap, working together across investment, lending, and advisory to catalyze inclusive development. With over two decades of experience across sectors like financial inclusion, agriculture, and climate, the Group provides CIRCA with a strong foundation of operational discipline, governance, and systems scale impact.

More info: https://aavishkaargroup.com/

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.

Position Description:

We are seeking a professional with diverse experience across rural infrastructure financing, green and infrastructure projects, ESG and financial due diligence, and climate finance, with a strong understanding of rural development initiatives. The role will focus on designing and delivering large-scale programs that integrate rural development, climate resilience, and sustainable infrastructure, while enabling access to finance across sectors.

The ideal candidate will bring a well-rounded perspective spanning project structuring, financing of infrastructure and green projects, evaluation of ESG and sustainability frameworks, and execution of government and donor funded programs. The role requires the ability to work across the full lifecycle from project conceptualization and feasibility assessment to financial closure and implementation particularly in collaboration with public sector institutions and development finance stakeholders.

In addition, the role will involve supporting preparation of bankable projects through techno-economic analysis, financial modelling, and due diligence (including ESG considerations), while enabling access to blended finance solutions. A strong understanding of government schemes, public financing mechanisms, and institutional frameworks will be critical to drive convergence and scale.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Program strategy & execution:

- Support design and implementation of large-scale programs across rural infrastructure, climate finance, and green development sectors.

- Develop scalable program frameworks integrating infrastructure financing, climate resilience, and livelihood enhancement.

- Integrate data systems, digital tools, and innovative delivery models into program implementation.

2. Infrastructure & green project development:

- Identify and develop a pipeline of bankable projects across renewable energy, natural resource management, agro-infrastructure, and other green sectors.

- Support end-to-end project lifecycle including concept development, feasibility analysis, structuring, and implementation support.

- Work on infrastructure financing opportunities including PPP, OPEX, and blended finance models.

- Facilitate convergence with government programs and private sector participation.

3. Climate finance & ESG integration:

- Lead initiatives in climate finance, including adaptation and mitigation projects across sectors.

- Conduct ESG and financial due diligence for projects and investment opportunities.

- Develop frameworks aligned with sustainability standards, climate policies, and green finance taxonomies.

- Support design of innovative financing instruments such as blended finance structures, carbon-linked mechanisms, etc.

4. Financial structuring & resource mobilization:

- Structure financing solutions for infrastructure and green projects, including debt, equity, and hybrid instruments.

- Enable access to institutional finance through partnerships with banks, NBFCs, DFIs, and impact investors.

- Mobilize capital from multilateral agencies, donors, CSR funds, and government schemes.

- Support preparation of financial models, investment notes, and credit proposals.

5. Partnerships & ecosystem development:

- Build and manage partnerships with government institutions, financial institutions, private sector players, and development organizations.

- Drive strategic alliances and collaborative platforms for project development and financing.

- Enable cross-sector collaboration to strengthen ecosystem for green and inclusive development.

6. Capacity building & Technical Assistance:

- Design and deliver capacity-building programs for institutions, project developers, and community organizations.

- Provide technical assistance for project preparation, financial structuring, and implementation.

- Support stakeholders in adopting climate-resilient and sustainable practices.

Required Qualifications, Key Skills & Competencies:

- Education: Postgraduate degree in Agriculture / Rural Management / Environmental Management / Economics / Development Studies / MBA

- Experience: 7 to 12 years in rural livelihoods, agriculture, climate/sustainability programs, infrastructure financing