Manager

MicroSave Consulting Group; Lucknow; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

MicroSave Consulting is expanding its climate and sustainable finance practice in India, seeking an expert to establish credibility, build a donor and DFI-funded pipeline, and deliver high-impact advisory services.

The role covers diagnostics, strategy, policy analysis, and financial modelling for green finance, climate adaptation, and resilience; you will lead multidisciplinary teams and engage with banks, regulators, and donors to drive results.

Qualifications

• Key skills include green lending, climate-risk assessment, and blended finance.
• Experience with financial institutions and donor/DFI projects is desirable.
• Strong analytical, report writing, communication and stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Lead diagnostics, strategies and TA on green and sustainable finance, climate adaptation and resilience.
• Engage with banks, insurers and other institutions on climate-related opportunities and frameworks.
• Develop financing mechanisms and viability assessments for projects.
• Manage assignments and multidisciplinary teams with budgets and workplans.

Skills

Green lending

Climate risk assessment

Blended finance

Investment design

Policy & diagnostics

Excel / MS Office

Communication & reports

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Word

Job description

MicroSave Consulting (MSC) is a boutique consulting firm that has, for 25 years, pushed the world towards meaningful financial, social, and economic inclusion. With over 300 staff of different nationalities and varied expertise, we are proud to be working in over 68 developing countries. We partner with participants in financial services, enterprise, agriculture and health ecosystems to achieve sustainable performance improvements and unlock enduring value. Our clients include governments, donors, private sector corporations, and local businesses. We can help you seize the digital opportunity, address the mass market, and future-proof your operations.

Job Description

Climate and sustainable finance is a growing strategic opportunity for MSC. Hiring an expert will help us establish a credible presence in this niche area, strengthen our technical capabilities, build a pipeline of donor and DFI-funded assignments, and develop a sustainable portfolio of climate finance advisory services.

Climate and sustainable finance advisory

• Lead diagnostics, strategies and technical assistance on green andsustainable finance, climate adaptation and resilience, low-carbon investmentsand climate-finance mobilisation.
• Advise banks, NBFCs, MFIs, insurers and other institutions on green financialproducts, climate-related risks, sustainable-finance frameworks, portfolioopportunities and institutional capacity building.
• Design or assess financing mechanisms—including credit lines, guarantees,concessional and blended finance, and other risk-sharing instruments—anddevelop financial and commercial viability assessments.
• Support climate investment and financing solutions for MSMEs, agriculture,livelihoods and relevant sectors such as renewable energy, energy efficiency,water and circular economy.
• Contribute to climate-finance project preparation, investment pipelines,funding proposals, programme design and results frameworks, incorporatinggender, inclusion, safeguards and climate impact measurement.

Consulting delivery and technical leadership

• Manage assignments and multidisciplinary teams, including methodologies,workplans, budgets, stakeholder consultations, analytical work, clientdeliverables and quality assurance.
• Lead research, feasibility studies, institutional assessments, policyanalysis and development of actionable recommendations, roadmaps, financialmodels and knowledge products.
• Engage effectively with clients, donors, regulators, investors andimplementation partners; facilitation workshops and build the capacity of clientand MSC teams.

Business development and institutional contribution

• Identify opportunities, build client and partner relationships, and lead orcontribute to EOIs, technical/financial proposals and consortium developmentfor donor- and private-sector assignments.
• Support MSC's practice development through thought leadership, tools andmethodologies, mentoring and cross-sector collaboration.

Requirements

Key Skills:

• Hands-on experience in at least two relevant areas: greenlending/product design; climate-risk assessment; adaptation or mitigationfinance; blended finance/guarantees; investment or facility design;climate-finance policy and institutional diagnostics.
• Experience with financial institutions and donor/DFI-supported projects;familiarity with relevant climate-finance standards, taxonomies, disclosures,safeguards, MRV and donor funding requirements is desirable.
• Strong analytical and financial skills, excellent report/proposal writing andcommunication, stakeholder management, team leadership, and proficiency inExcel, Word and PowerPoint.
• Ability to work independently, manage competing deadlines and undertakedomestic or international travel; emerging-market experience and networks arean advantage.

6-9 years of relevant experience in climate/sustainable finance, development finance, financial-sector advisory, climate investment or related consulting, with demonstrated responsibility for delivering assignments