Senior Technical Writer and Due-Diligence Lead - Nature-Based Carbon

Varaha; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading agricultural consultancy in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Technical Writer and Due-Diligence Lead. This role is crucial for preparing client-ready technical documents, ensuring clarity and consistency in communication across stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have 5 to 10 years of experience in regenerative agriculture or agroforestry, and demonstrated expertise in technical writing, grant applications, and managing complex processes. A strong scientific grounding and excellent English skills are essential for success in this position.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years in regenerative agriculture or agroforestry.
• Proven experience in technical writing for due diligence.
• Strong business judgment and document management skills.

Responsibilities

• Draft technical answers and manage documents for proposals.
• Lead grant applications and align writing with criteria.
• Maintain a structured document repository.

Skills

Technical writing

Due diligence processes

Project design

Regenerative agriculture

Agroforestry

Data analysis

Written English proficiency

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Technical Writer and Due-Diligence Lead to own and drive the preparation of client-ready technical documents, due-diligence responses, and funding proposals. This role will ensure that Varaha’s technical expertise is communicated clearly, consistently, and credibly across stakeholders, including investors, auditors, standard bodies, and grant-makers. This is a cross-functional role requiring strong scientific grounding, precision writing skills, and the ability to manage processes across technical, operations, and commercial teams.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Receive and classify client questionnaires and proposal requests. Identify what can be answered immediately, what requires expert input, and what needs new documentation.
• Draft precise technical answers with sources, assumptions, and clear limits of any claim.
• Create missing appendices, standard operating procedures, diagrams, and data summaries.
• Coordinate inputs across teams. Set timelines. Drive review and approval to completion.
• Maintain a structured answer library and a client-ready document repository. Keep language and facts consistent across proposals, contracts, and project materials.
• Lead or support grant applications. Align writing with reviewer criteria and commercial goals.
• Guide the commercial team on how to present technical content accurately and consistently.

Qualifications

• Based in Europe or India. Willing to travel to India and to project sites when needed.
• 5 to 10 years working on smallholder regenerative agriculture and/or agroforestry in Africa or Asia.
• Proven technical writing for due-diligence processes, project design documents, monitoring reports, or proposal responses. Provide writing samples.
• Successful grant writing or proposal leadership with measurable funding results.
• Strong understanding of nature-based carbon projects: baselines, additionality, permanence, leakage, and risk buffers.
• Working knowledge of soil carbon and biomass measurement, monitoring, reporting, verification, and sampling design.
• Able to read agronomy data and remote-sensing outputs and turn them into concise, defensible claims.
• Sound business judgment. Presents benefits, costs, and risks without exaggeration.
• Reliable process habits: structured intake, targeted requests to experts, careful citation, and disciplined document management.
• Excellent written English.

Preferred

• Experience with Verra, Gold Standard, or Plan Vivo, including auditor interactions.
• Experience writing standard operating procedures for field protocols, quality assurance, and quality control.
• Familiarity with working in India.