Job Description

Position: Avaana Capital – Lead, Climate Impact and Partnerships

Location: Mumbai/Bangalore

About Avaana
Avaana Climate and Sustainability Fund is an early-stage fund, supporting future market leaders leveraging
tech-led innovation to catalyze climate solutions and sustainability and deliver exponential returns.
Avaana supports scaling up of its investee companies through support across strategy, business development,
capacity building, financing, governance, and mentorship for founders and their senior teams to create market
leaders.
For further information please visit: https://avaanacapital.com/

The Role:
The Climate Impact and Partnerships Associate will work closely with the Investment Team to drive climate
impact frameworks, measurement and reporting and communication across the Avaana portfolio. They will also
quarterback Avaana’s significant Partnerships across corporates, policy and knowledge and academia.

Key Responsibilities:

- Supporting the firm in the further development and implementation of its climate and sustainability impact
strategy at both firm and portfolio company level
- Supporting Investment teams in the integration of key climate considerations and relevant SDG criteria into their
investment and portfolio engagement processes
- Engage with Investment teams to support pre-investment due diligence, specifically around climate impact of
potential investees
- Identifying the key levers of growth, climate impact, and sustainability and formulate, implement and track
metrics for the same
- Formulate and implement compliance and reporting framework for climate impact, commensurate to the size of
the organization, at both firm and portfolio company level and in line with international standards and guidelines
- Conduct industry benchmarking and research
- Identifying and showcasing successful practices and initiatives across the portfolio companies
- Working alongside the leadership team in forging, maintaining and leveraging Partnerships in the Climate and
sustainability ecosystem, across stakeholders in corporates, policy, and knowledge and thought leadership
- Create and drive internal and external stakeholder communication around Climate impact

Required Qualifications and Attributes:

• 4-6 years of total experience and some relevant work experience in a reputed professional services firm,
corporate, policy body, or development institution.
• Experience with impact, climate and sustainability, and/or ESG is a must. Should be familiar with measurement
and reporting standards. Strong analytical skills and ability to draw insights from imperfect data
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills
• Strong project management capabilities and ability to work across teams
• Highly motivated, self-starter, proactive, with a strong orientation towards learning
• A network of industry peers, relevant industry/policy bodies, associations, and advisors would be preferable

We are looking for self-starters with strong analytical skills, exceptional communication and collaboration skills,
and thriving on working with a highly motivated team

If interested, please write to people@avaanacapital.com.