Purpose of the Role To lead the strategic growth and impact of the Clean Tech vertical by identifying disruptive innovations and providing high-touch acceleration support to help them achieve commercial scale, while simultaneously serving as the financial custodian of the organization, ensuring fiscal discipline and impact-linked financial planning.
Key Deliverables
Clean Technology Vertical, Scale-Up Program
- Portfolio Strategy: Define the annual roadmap for the Clean Technology vertical, aligned with the organization’s broader impact goals.
- Sourcing and Selection: Lead the full funnel of identifying and onboarding high-potential clean tech startups, including rigorous business due diligence.
- Growth Acceleration: Serve as portfolio manager for a cohort of clean tech startups, guiding strategic shifts and validated business models toward their scale-up milestones.
- Ecosystem Building: Build and maintain a working network of clean tech investors, corporate partners, and technical mentors.
- Process Innovation:
Design new program frameworks and toolkits that improve mentorship delivery and impact tracking across the vertical.
- Project Management: Support specialized initiatives such as technology pilots, manage external collaborators and field partners, and contribute to current sector-specific programs as the portfolio evolves.
Finance Operations
- Budget Operations: Own the day-to-day management of the overall budget, tracking spend against targets across program teams and flagging discrepancies in real time.
- Compliance: Ensure financial processes comply with regulatory standards for CSR-funded foundations, including support for statutory audits.
- Cross-Functional Coordination: Work across program teams to assign and reconcile budgets, keeping resource allocation disciplined across the organization.
- Impact Finance: Develop or create partnerships to develop models to track the “Social Return on Impact.”