Associate Director

Finance Earth are looking to recruit an Associate Director to help our growing environmental impact investment advisory and transaction teams. The role offers the chance to work with market leading clients on the cutting edge of the emerging conservation investment market in the UK and internationally, and to become a recognised expert in the field.

Does the idea of creating investments which protect and restore nature excite you? We are looking for an Associate Director to join our leading environmental investment and fund management team to develop innovative financing solutions to society’s and the environment’s most critical issues. Our team works with leading environmental organisations, the private sector, and governments in the UK and internationally to create investment structures that deliver benefits for nature, communities and investors.

**About Finance Earth**

Finance Earth is the UK’s leading environmental impact investment advisor and fund manager. We work with leading environmental organisations to design and implement innovative financing solutions for the natural and built environment. Our team has structured over £500 million of funds for environmental and social benefit, and we manage or co-manage more than £450 million of our own impact investment funds. We are a mission driven, employee-owned social enterprise that plays a prominent role in the green finance market in the UK and globally.

We have grown rapidly since our establishment in 2016. We are highly regarded in our market, with an industry leading reputation for delivery, independent advice, strategic and innovative thinking and an envied track record in developing and funding environmental impact projects and investment funds.

**The Role**

Finance Earth are looking to recruit an Associate Director to help our growing environmental impact investment advisory teams. The role offers the chance to work with market leading clients on the cutting edge of the emerging conservation investment market in the UK and internationally.

We are also investors in our people, offering the opportunity for both technical and soft skills development, and unique experiences to grow both professionally and personally.

The Associate Director will be expected to:

- Actively manage client relationships alongside Directors, taking responsibility for the day to day project management and delivery of Advisory assignments. This will include assuming responsibility for managing all phases of advisory projects: project origination, proposal development, stakeholder engagement, analysis of the investment potential of various nature-based or green infrastructure solutions, financial modelling, presentations, and report writing.
- Direct and manage junior Finance Earth colleagues, and support staff on strategic advisory projects, with a particular focus on coaching and contributing to the on-the-job development of junior team members.
- Proactively assist business development efforts including pitching for new work and building and maintaining relationships with a wide range of public, social, corporate entities and financial institutions.
- Oversee and lead product development and refinement, for example: habitat banking models, environmental impact bonds, social and environmental impact investment funds, etc.
- Contribute to the strategic direction of the firm, including allocation of resources, staff learning and development, growth opportunities, and other areas.
- Support Finance Earth’s talent management efforts via recruiting, coaching, goal setting, mentoring, and ongoing performance management.
- Contribute to thought leadership and policy influencing, representing Finance Earth at conferences and events and with Government and related decision makers, and writing thought leadership articles etc.

The Associate Director will be integral in our efforts to inspire a movement and will lead a talented team to realise our mission to mobilise capital to drive environmental change. This role represents a unique opportunity to achieve both significant impacts locally for communities in need, and transformative, systemic change for how society looks after the environment at a national level.

**Skills and Experience**

We are looking for an Associate Director with a background in either consulting or financial services and possessing excellent project management and team leadership skills, combined with the ability to develop strong relationships both internally and externally across diverse stakeholders; and a commitment to improving environmental and social outcomes across the UK and globally.

**Required**

You will have:

- 7 or more years of professional experience including meaningful time spent across one or more of Consulting (Strategy, Management or Financial) or Financial Services (Corporate Finance, M&A, Private Equity or Debt, Transaction Services);
- A strong and demonstrable interest in, and preferably experience in Natural Capita