Associate Principal - Natural Capital - Carbon Finance at CrossBoundary

Primary Responsibilities

• Lead a team of investment professionals, maintaining responsibility for hiring, capacity building, performance management, and general team leadership duties
• Lead business development across multiple channels, including private commercial opportunities and government- / donor-sponsored opportunities
• Provide continuous client coverage of private capital investors, development finance institutions (DFIs), corporates ranging from SMEs to MNCs, and other relevant organizations in order to proactively identify advisory opportunities
• Provide deal and project leadership and execution oversight to a wide range of transaction-related advisory engagements:
  • Investment target identification and screening 
    • Use conventional and unconventional channels to identify and rigorously assess investment opportunities 
    • For targets that are not yet investment-ready, be able to concisely map out paths to investability and resources required to achieve investability  
    • Be able to credibly articulate investment opportunities’ social and environmental impact narratives 
  • Investor identification and relationship building 
    • Understand investor mandates, criteria, preferences, and existing portfolios
    • Understand investor appetite to work with DFIs or other development-oriented actors
    • Manage investor relationships 
  • Detailed commercial due diligence/vendor due diligence 
    • Directly conduct or facilitate investor (‘buy-side’) commercial due diligence
    • Compile and curate a comprehensive virtual data room
  • Robust, multi-faceted corporate and project finance models, including valuations of private companies using rigorous, defensible methodologies
  • Draft investment memoranda and teasers, author and update sophisticated financial models
  • Recommendations on optimal transaction structures based upon near-, medium- and long-term strategic objectives and capitalization parameters, available instruments, and investor preferences
    • Draft detailed illustrative term sheets for debt and equity deals, and carbon finance
  • Market assessment and ongoing market analysis
    • Conduct macroeconomic and geopolitical market assessments 
  • Provide sector analysis of priority areas for investment
• Manage relationships with key CrossBoundary clients, such as USAID; provide strategic inputs to program design and oversee mandate execution and reporting

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and qualifications:

•  Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or another advanced degree strongly desired
•  5+ years of experience in investment banking, management consulting, private equity, or similar
•  Experience in natural capital, conservation, forestry, agriculture, or another relevant sector
•  Knowledge of carbon markets, with experience developing carbon projects strongly preferred
•  Track record of successfully developing new business opportunities and strategic partnerships
•  Experience living and/or working in developing countries
•  Demonstrated management skills; leading teams to results in challenging circumstances
•  Leadership skills; preferably in a fast-moving and entrepreneurial environments
•  Strong financial services-focused quantitative skills and accounting fluency, to include corporate finance, company valuation, comprehension of debt and equity capital markets
•  Excellent analytical ability and discipline; ability to think clearly, structure problems logically, and then design and implement solutions that focus on the core issues
•  Ability to build strong relationships with partners and colleagues in challenging environments
•  Excellent presentation skills; ability to communicate clearly and effectively with diverse audiences
•  Experience working with a range of stakeholders (including private equity firms, Development Finance Institutions, and development agencies) to support investments in high impact sectors