SENIOR TECHNICAL PROJECTS LEAD

Varaha; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 8,507,000 - 14,178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development

Creative culture

Learning opportunities

Global team

Job summary

Varaha is seeking a Senior Technical Projects Lead to own client-ready technical documents, due-diligence responses, and funding proposals. You will ensure technical clarity and credibility across investors, auditors, standard bodies, and grant-makers, coordinating input across technical, operations and commercial teams.

The role demands strong scientific grounding, precise writing, and the ability to drive processes from intake through documentation to review and approval, with travel to

Qualifications

• Based in Europe or India.
• 5 to 10 years working on smallholder regenerative agriculture and/or agroforestry in Africa or Asia.
• 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 clearly.
• Reliable process habits: structured intake, targeted expert requests, disciplined documentation.

Responsibilities

• Receive and classify client questionnaires and proposal requests; identify what can be answered immediately and what needs input from experts.
• Draft precise technical answers with sources, assumptions, and limits of any claim.
• Create missing appendices, SOPs, diagrams, and data summaries.
• Coordinate inputs across teams; set timelines; drive review to completion.
• Maintain a structured answer library and a client-ready document repository; ensure consistency 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.

Skills

Technical writing

Grant writing

Cross-functional collaboration

Project management

Data interpretation

Job description

Varaha is an end-to-end carbon project developer focused on nature based solutions such as regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, mangrove and biochar projects that support smallholder land stewards at scale. In our second year of operation we are removing and avoiding more than 1 Million tons of CO2 and distributing the majority of the revenues to more than 100,000 smallholder land stewards in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Our in-house best in class MRV technology includes a bio-geo-chemical model for soil carbon, remote sensing and machine learning and uses soil samples for calibration. Backed by leading global investors, our founding and management team comes with a stellar track record of successfully scaling projects and products to millions of smallholder land stewards at leading agri- and tech businesses.

Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Technical Projects 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.

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.

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.

Additional Information

What we offer

Join a small, ambitious, and international team and enjoy the following benefits:

Key role in shaping a fast-growing climate tech startup

Support for learning & professional development

A culture of undogmatic, unbureaucratic creativity and collaboration

Please note this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Varaha is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company does not discriminate in employment and personnel practices based on race, sex, age, handicap, religion, national origin or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Hiring, transferring and promotion practices are performed without regard to the above listed items.