Associate- Climate Challenges

Company Description

Climate Collective is South Asia's largest private organization focused on supporting climate tech startups. By leveraging resources, partnerships, knowledge, and opportunities within the ecosystem, Climate Collective empowers innovative startups to address pressing environmental challenges. Dedicated to creating a positive climate impact, the organization believes in the critical role startups play in building a sustainable and equitable future.

About Climate Challenges

Climate Challenges is CCF's industry-facing open innovation platform that accelerates industrial decarbonisation by translating priority pain points from hard-to-abate sectors into structured challenge statements, curating solution pipelines (startups + innovators), and enabling adoption pathways (business cases, pilots, partnerships, and ecosystem convenings).

About the Role

We are seeking a dynamic and motivated Associate to help design, manage, and execute programs under Climate Challenges, with a strong focus on industrial decarbonisation domains and program/project management. The role requires comfort working across multiple stakeholdersindustry partners, startups, ecosystem organizations, and internal teamswhile maintaining high execution quality across timelines, outputs, and reporting

Key Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end program execution: workplans, timelines, deliverables, trackers, and reporting
• Support development of industrial decarbonisation challenge statements (e.g., steel/cement/chemicals/industrial heat/energy efficiency) with clear KPIs and data needs
• Manage stakeholder coordination across industry partners, startups, and ecosystem organizations (calls, follow-ups, action logs)
• Build and manage a startup pipeline: sourcing, screening, shortlisting, and structured documentation of decisions
• Support adoption readiness: partnerstartup matchmaking, pilot readiness checklists, and early implementation planning

Desired Qualifications & Experience

• 46 years experience in climate/clean energy/industrial decarbonisation/manufacturing/sustainability, with strong program delivery exposure
• Demonstrated ability to manage multi-stakeholder programs with clear outputs, timelines, and execution rigor
• Experience working with startups / accelerators / innovation programs / corporate-startup engagement is a strong plus

Skills Required

• Strong ownership mindset, operational discipline, and reliable follow-through in fast-moving environments
• Ability to understand and communicate technical decarbonisation concepts to mixed audiences (industry + startups)
• Strong stakeholder management and crisp written communication (notes, trackers, partner updates)
• Structured thinking + analytical ability to synthesize information and turn it into actionable outputs