Role: Associate Sector Lead / Sector Lead - Climate Smart Livelihoods, Bangalore
Experience: 12+ years
Salary: Upto 30 LPA
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Key Deliverables:
The leader of the Climate Smart Livelihoods Sector is expected to drive systemic change through enterprise support, focusing on:
Scaling up startup solutions aimed at
income enhancement and livelihoods resilience
in both urban and rural contexts.
Implementing a
systems-level approach
to integrate supported startups into existing rural value chains (e.g., agriculture and allied sectors).
Building and launching new startup-centered initiatives specifically focused on
urban livelihoods
.
Deploying
blended finance solutions
to address critical credit and working capital challenges faced by early-stage enterprises.
Role & Responsibilities
1. Acceleration and Business Support
Program Leadership:
Lead and manage accelerator programs focused on sustainable urban and rural livelihoods.
Hands-on Support:
Provide direct support to enterprises to improve product-market fit, accelerate sales, and create measurable social and environmental impact.
Model Validation:
Work collaboratively with startup teams, Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs), and other intermediaries to validate and strengthen enterprise models.
2. Partnerships & Fundraising:
Stakeholder Engagement:
Drive proactive engagement with key external stakeholders, including impact investors, research organizations, Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) partners, and relevant government agencies.
Funding Strategy:
Use program insights and market trends to support the Partnerships team in raising recent funding for sectoral initiatives.
Proposal Leadership:
Lead the development and pitching of proposals to secure new grants and investments.
3. Advocacy & Communication
Insight Generation:




Generate critical insights from field visits and enterprise performance data to continuously improve the organization's effectiveness in delivering results.
Champion Transformation:
Serve as a champion for the organization's core hypothesis of combining market development, demand generation, and credit enablement through blended finance mechanisms.
Candidate Requirements
Experience and Education:
Experience:
15 or more years
of experience in large-scale program operations or implementation leadership, preferably in the education or social development sectors.
This experience should include a combination of rural sales, marketing, operational roles, livelihoods financing, or development finance.
Education:
A Master's degree in Social Sciences or Economics, OR deep sectoral specialization in agriculture (and related fields) or renewable energy solutions.
Sectoral Knowledge:
Working knowledge in one or more topics related to impact investing, agriculture value chains, waste management, and social entrepreneurship is required.
Donor Exposure:
Exposure to grant or donor project execution is desirable.
Skills and Mindsets:
Leadership:
Excellent people-management skills and the ability to lead diverse teams, fostering high levels of initiative and ownership.
Communication:
Effective communication and persuasion skills required to influence internal and external stakeholders.
Data Command:
Strong
numerical ability
and data interpretation skills, with proven ability to use operational data to drive coordination and accountability.
Action Bias:
High degree of ownership and a bias for action, with a willingness to be
hands-on and frugal
.
Adaptability:
Ability to work with ambiguity and innovative ideas in a dynamic environment.
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Hiring Note
: Applications will be reviewed on rolling basis. This job is first posted on Dec 4, ****, on /
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