Description:
- The role centers on identifying and enabling sustainable financing pathways that prioritize blue-collar worker well-being, using climate finance mechanisms, ESG frameworks, and corporate investment logic to drive systemic change.
- The professional will work across research, partnerships, and finance teams to develop a long-term strategy for impact-driven engagement with investors, lenders, and corporate actors.
Key Responsibilities:
Technical:
- Analyze how businesses make investment decisions, especially related to climate action and ESG.
- Identify financial instruments (e.g., green/concessional loans) that businesses can access and the associated reporting/social metrics.
- Translate worker well-being research into investor-relevant financial language (e.g., ROI, risk mitigation, productivity).
- Recommend adaptations to internal reporting frameworks to align with market-facing decision-making tools.
Strategic:
- Design engagement strategies to influence capital flows toward evidence-based worker programs.
- Map opportunities to embed worker-centric metrics into emerging climate finance and ESG tools.
- Shift business narratives: Position worker well-being as a strategic and profitable investment.
- Build internal capacity through training modules on ESG, impact metrics, and financial decision-making.
- Outline a roadmap for long-term partnerships, fundraising, and organizational structure alignment.
Focus Areas:
- Business & Financial Decision-Making: Understand capital allocation processes in climate-linked sectors.
- Surface non-financial (beyond-ROI) drivers of sustained workforce investment.
- Financing Instruments & Metrics: Identify capital sources used for climate action and their ESG/social criteria.
- Align internal research and metrics with green finance and blended finance frameworks.
- Organizational Capacity & Strategy: Strengthen internal systems to engage more effectively with financial stakeholders.
- Design internal learning journeys around a finance-informed impact strategy.
Candidate Profile:
- 8-12 years of experience in finance, investment banking, fund management, or related sectors.
- Strong understanding of financial structuring, capital allocation, and sustainability finance.
- Demonstrated ability to translate research and non-financial data into finance-aligned narratives.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
Preferred:
- Experience in climate finance, ESG investing, or sustainability-linked lending.
- Familiarity with impact investing, green finance, or regulatory frameworks like ESG, CSDD, BRSR, and SEBI-linked reporting.
- Background in integrating social metrics into financial decision-making tools.
- Experience with concessional finance, blended finance, or working with financial institutions.
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