Senior Director - Consulting (Climate)

Title: Senior Director, Sagana Consulting

Location: Any location in Europe – this is a fully-remote position

Reports to: Head of Sagana Consulting and Co-Founder

Company:

Sagana is a global impact investment advisory firm working to unleash the potential of people, capital, and business to improve human and planetary health. We are passionate about advising, investing in, and growing companies that are successfully solving some of the biggest challenges of our time - and to helping other investors to do the same. We leverage decades of experience in private equity, impact advisory, and entrepreneurship to scale big ideas that create an abundant, thriving world for all.

 

Our name means “Abundance” in Tagalog, and this is core to who we are.  To learn more about what sets us apart, check out our video: Sagana - Unleashing Potential

 

Sagana Consulting:

Sagana Consulting advises investors, development organizations, foundations, corporations and other allocators of capital on maximizing the transformational effect of their resources. We draw on our expertise as business consultants, investors combined with our deep understanding of local markets to co-create investment strategies and financial vehicles that empower our clients to deepen their positive impact. Our clients include organizations like the Swiss Agency for Development, BII, FMO, DFAT, responsAbility, Chemonics, the Gates Foundation, and the Cartier Women’s Initiative.

Opportunity:

We are hiring a senior director-level consultant with an unwavering enthusiasm for impact to grow our impact investing consulting practice, with a particular focus on climate initiatives, who will direct multiple projects simultaneously across a range of high-growth industries and client types.

You will contribute actively in both business development and internal initiatives. In other words, you will have an integral part in accelerating Sagana’s growth.

 

Our ideal colleague combines the analytic and problem-solving skills of a strategy consultant, the scrappiness and relationship-building skills of an entrepreneur, and the multi-culture & global-mindedness of an international professional. If this is you, let’s talk asap!

Responsibilities:

• Proactively lead projects related to climate impact through investment, including themes such as adaptation and resilience, just transition, and mitigation.  You will develop project scopes informed by the innovations seen on our investment side and deeply rooted in what’s realistic to implement over the coming years.

• Ensure high-quality, on-time delivery across multiple projects at once, by building and directing workplans, timelines and budgets

• Effectively develop and deepen relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders – both to execute on projects and to build Sagana’s network

• Bring new relationships and strengthen existing client relationships that generate new business for Sagana. Write proposals and pitch new projects to both existing and new clients

Skills and Experience:

• Have at least 10 years of relevant work experience, including at least 3 years actively working in a well-established consulting firm. You know how to be a great consultant

• Experience developing and growing climate projects in emerging markets working with catalytic capital such as foundations, corporations, and other global actors. We are looking for someone to help shape and grow this business line

• Experience working with culturally diverse client and colleague teams is necessary! You are a global citizen who thrives working remotely and across time-zones

• Proven project management skills in growing complex projects with multiple and diverse stakeholders. You think and work  across sectors

• Thrive in an entrepreneurial culture. You get things done, pay attention to details as well as strategy and dive deep into the work when necessary. You like to build new ventures and your commitment to quality is unwavering

• Skilled communicator, both written and oral. Comprehensive presentation and facilitation skills. Fearless in delivering complex messages

• Fluency in English. Knowledge of other languages is an added advantage.

Values:

Our shared values guide all that we do:

Courage - Is what empowers us to think differently, ask difficult questions, speak our minds, act on what we believe in, and find opportunities that others don’t always see

Authenticity - Is what guides us to bring our whole selves to our endeavors and not hide behind a mask. It brings out our honesty, creativity, and enthusiasm that allows us to use our full potential in delivering our work

Respect - Is the foundation of all relationships – with ourselves, our clients and partners, our colleagues, our communities, and our planet

Responsibility - Is what we take for the world in which we live. We hold ourselves accountable for the decisions we make and the actions we take as people and as a company every day

Excellence - We are committed to being our best. Because creating a better future takes more than good intentions.

 

Inclusion:

We are actively creating a workplace where authentic communication, collaboration, and inclusion enable people to become their best selves both personally and professionally while having a career with purpose and impact.

Apply:

To be considered for this career opportunity, please submit your CV using the role link. If your application is short listed you will be contacted by a member of Sagana's recruiting team. www.sagana.com

Please refer all questions regarding the position to Simon Thorne, Senior Talent Manager - SAGANA

N.B. In the event we receive an overwhelming volume of applications or a change in business requirements, we reserve the right to close a vacancy.