SENIOR TECHNICAL WRITER AND DUE-DILIGENCE LEAD - NATURE-BASED CARBON

Varaha; Gurugram District; Hybrid; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading carbon project development company seeks a Senior Technical Writer and Due-Diligence Lead to prepare client-ready documents and proposals. The ideal candidate has 5 to 10 years of experience in regenerative agriculture and strong technical writing skills. Responsibilities include drafting precise technical answers and coordinating inputs across teams. This remote role will require occasional travel to project sites in India and Europe, contributing to impactful nature-based carbon projects.

Qualifications

• 5 to 10 years experience in regenerative agriculture or agroforestry.
• Proven success in grant writing with measurable outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of carbon project principles.

Responsibilities

• Draft client-ready technical documents and proposals.
• Coordinate cross-functional team inputs for proposals.
• Maintain a structured repository of documents.

Skills

Scientific writing skills

Project management

Understanding of nature-based carbon projects

Strong business judgment

Knowledge in regenerative agriculture or agroforestry

Job description

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

Job posted on

16/12/2025

Location

Remote

Function

Commercial

Department

Carbon Project

Designation

Lead

Entity

Number of Position(s)

1

Openings Valid Till

31/01/2026

Company 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 operationwe are removing and avoiding more than 1 Million tons of CO2 and distributing the majority of the revenues to more than100,000 smallholder land stewards in South Asia and Sub‑Saharan Africa. Our in‑house best in class MRV technologyincludes a bio‑geo‑chemical model for soil carbon, remote sensing and machine learning and uses soil samples forcalibration. Backed by leading global investors, our founding and management team comes with a stellar track recordof 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 Writer and Due‑Diligence Lead to own and drive the preparation of client‑ready technicaldocuments, due‑diligence responses, and funding proposals. This role will ensure that Varaha’s technical expertise iscommunicated clearly, consistently, and credibly across stakeholders, including investors, auditors, standard bodies, andgrant‑makers.This is a cross‑functional role requiring strong scientific grounding, precision writing skills, and the ability to manageprocesses across technical, operations, and commercial teams.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Receive and classify client questionnaires and proposal requests. Identify what can be answeredimmediately, 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 factsconsistent 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, andrisk buffers.
• Working knowledge of soil carbon and biom​ass measurement, monitoring, reporting, verification, andsampling 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 disciplineddocument management.

Preferred:

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