Vacancy title:
Senior Blended Finance Structuring & Pipeline Development Expert
Employment type: Contractor, Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO, Category: Management, Accounting & Finance, Business Operations, Non-profits, Foundations & Philanthropists
Jobs at:
Allied Talent Partners (ATP)
Deadline of this Job:
Friday, November 20 2026
Duty Station:
This Job is Remote
Summary
Date Posted: Saturday, November 7 2026, Base Salary: Not Disclosed
JOB DETAILS:
Allied Talent Partners (ATP), a Three Cairns Group initiative, is a mission-driven, not-for-profit talent marketplace focused on solving the human capital bottlenecks slowing down sustainable development efforts in emerging economies, with an initial focus on Africa. ATP connects vetted, experienced, context-relevant professionals to high-impact opportunities in energy access and sustainable development – strengthening local capacity and fuelling economic vitality. We specialize in fixed-term, deliverable-driven engagements – from interim leadership and generalist projects to niche technical expertise – handling project scoping, talent vetting and matching, contracting, payroll, and compliance so that our clients can focus on impact.
High-level Overview
The client is seeking a Senior Blended Finance Structuring & Pipeline Development Expert for a pipeline-development assignment. The Expert will lead the prioritization and investment-readiness process for selected climate-investment opportunities, provide strategic oversight and quality assurance for specialist preparation inputs, and translate emerging technical, commercial, environmental and social evidence into coherent financing and resource-mobilization pathways. S/he will also be in charge of investor mapping as well as project-investor matchmaking.
The ideal candidate will be a senior climate-finance, blended-finance or project-preparation practitioner with demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary teams, structuring climate financeable opportunities, and engaging public institutions, private sector, development-finance partners and investors in African or comparable emerging markets. The candidate should also have a good understanding and knowledge of climate financiers.
Role & Responsibilities
Role: Senior Blended Finance Structuring & Pipeline Development Expert
Reports to: Chief Strategy Officer-RGF
Direct reports: All other consultants under this assignment
Candidates required: 1
Deliverables
- Lead a practical investment-readiness process for prioritized climate-investment opportunities, including pipeline review, prioritization, readiness diagnostics, decision gates, preparation plans and sequenced work orders.
- Undertake the financial structuring of prioritized projects, including the design of tailored blended finance solutions and capital stacks that address project-specific risks, optimise the use of concessional and public finance, mobilise private capital, and enhance access to climate finance and other investment sources.
- Integrate climate finance considerations into technical work, drawing on relevant climate finance expertise to develop projects that are technically sound, climate-aligned, financially viable, and eligible for funding from relevant climate funds and other financing sources.
- Provide strategic oversight and quality assurance of inputs from Climate-Smart Agriculture, Sustainable Land Management, Sustainable Cities and Urban Infrastructure, ESG, financial and economic modeling, and digital pipeline specialists; ensure that technical designs, cost assumptions, implementation arrangements, risks and evidence gaps are addressed proportionately before opportunities advance.
- Develop early financing and funding diagnostics and resource-mobilization pathways for selected projects, including tailored financing strategies, capital-stack options, risk-allocation approaches, suitable funding sources – including climate funds, development-finance institutions, development partners, institutional investors and commercial financiers – and establish and maintain a project-financier matching matrix.
- Integrate specialist findings into decision-ready investment-readiness packages, including project-preparation action plans, risk and mitigation summaries, investment-case inputs, financing propositions and investor-facing materials.
- Guide investor and funder engagement for priority opportunities, capture feedback, refine financing propositions and advise client counterparts on next-step transaction or resource-mobilization priorities.
- Maintain quality control across the pipeline-development workstream and provide practical coaching, tools and knowledge transfer so that client counterparts can apply a consistent project-preparation and financing approach after the assignment.
Requirements
Experience Required
- At least 10 years of relevant experience, including demonstrated responsibility for leading project-preparation, financing-structuring, or resource-mobilization workstreams for climate investments.
- Demonstrated experience leading climate, infrastructure, agriculture, nature-based or comparable project pipelines from concept through feasibility, investment readiness and resource mobilization.
- Track record developing financing strategies, capital stacks, concessional or catalytic finance structures, investor propositions or transaction pathways for projects or investment platforms.
- Experience integrating multidisciplinary technical, environmental and social, commercial and financial inputs for projects, facilities or investment platforms.
- Experience advising governments, development-finance institutions, investors, developers, utilities, project-preparation facilities or climate-finance institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa; wider East African experience is strongly preferred.
Technical Requirements
- Strong judgment on project-preparation sequencing, feasibility-stage decision gates, investment-readiness diagnostics, financing constraints and resource-mobilization pathways
- Ability to translate technical, commercial, ESG and financial evidence into proportionate financing strategies, capital-stack options, risk-allocation approaches and credible investor propositions.
- Experience reviewing financial models, investment cases, risk registers, implementation plans and investor-facing materials without duplicating specialist technical, ESG or financial-modeling roles.
- Working knowledge of concessional, catalytic, guarantee, grant, debt, equity, quasi-equity, results-based and other blended-finance instruments.
- Ability to provide strategic oversight and quality assurance across climate-smart agriculture, sustainable land management, sustainable cities and urban infrastructure, and ESG and safeguards workstreams.
Language Requirements
Professional fluency in English is required; French is advantageous.
Soft Skills
- Executive presence and sound judgment in complex public-institution, technical and investor settings.
- Collaborative, low-ego leadership that provides clear direction and quality assurance across specialist inputs without creating unnecessary layers or duplication.
- Clear, concise writing and confident presentation of options, assumptions, trade-offs and accountable next steps.
- Responsive, hands-on working style with a commitment to practical coaching and institutional knowledge transfer.
Working Arrangement
Location: Rwanda
Working model
Remote, with strategic oversight and quality assurance across task-order-based specialist inputs.
Travel requirements
Periodic regional and in-country travel may be required; frequency will be with agreed with client.
Terms of Agreement
Required start date: October 2026
Contracting period: Up to six months (October 2026-March 2027).
Capacity allocation: Up to 75 working days (15 working days per month, starting in November).Exact allocation to be agreed with the client.
Work Hours: 8
Experience in Months: 120
Level of Education: bachelor degree
Job application procedure
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