Consultant Operations Manager, India

The Organisation
  
The Sequoia Climate Foundation is a climate philanthropy foundation based in California. Sequoia is committed to bolstering the urgent work of the Foundation’s grantees and leveraging climate science to accelerate the energy transition across geographies and sectors.
  
Together with its grantees and partners, Sequoia is working towards building a world powered by clean energy, where all people are protected by policies that have averted the worst effects of climate change.
  
Sequoia believes that solving climate change requires the adoption of ambitious, evidence-based solutions that transform markets, advance clean technology, and lead to large‐scale change to avoid dangerous climate tipping points and irreversible damage. Sequoia supports ambitious organizations and coalitions catalyzing rapid emissions reductions, transforming global markets, and accelerating the transition to clean energy around the world.
  
As Sequoia now expands internationally, there is an opportunity for an ambitious consultant manager to help shape the future of Sequoia’s India operations and ensure Sequoia’s regional impact.


Benefits & Culture

• One-year initial contract with the possibility to make the position permanent.
• Opportunities to work with, and learn from, a mission-driven global team and partners.
• India, Delhi-based, remote: local work rights required. International travel opportunities.

  
The Role
  
Based in New Delhi, India, and reporting to the global COO, in this brand-new role you will support the India country office set up and core operations and procedures build out. Working with dynamic and driven team members in both Sequoia’s California headquarters (HQ) and in India, your role supports all core multifunctional operations and oversees budget and expenditure.
  
You will be responsible for identifying and organizing all necessary resources, including local financial processes, establishing daily office operations, managing local vendors, and coordinating with the India Program Director, General Counsel, and HQ.
  
Other responsibilities include providing operational guidance to localize global policies and procedures, ensuring sound governance, and operating at high policy levels. You will also engage in and support organization-wide learning and development for the country and support the India Program Director with local events and ecosystem networking.


Skills Required
  
With strong generalist operational set-up and scale-up experience, ideally gained in a foundation or similar organization, and with exposure to grant making or philanthropy, you understand how non-profit organizations function. Importantly, you are eager to help accelerate the regional energy transition by leveraging your financial acumen, can-do attitude, and operational management skills.
  
You are a highly organized, solutions-focused operations manager and networker, able to work across both detail and strategy. Your career demonstrates your understanding of local policies and the multifaceted strategic skills you will employ to set up all core operational infrastructure, including banking, accounting, payroll, IT, facilities, document management, and legal liaison. You also have:

• Proven capacity to work across diverse stakeholders at various levels.
• Experience supporting financial audits and working with legal advisors.
• Impeccable ethics, capacity to work sensitively, collaboratively, and flexibly across the region.
• Sharp written and verbal communication, with strong English language skills.
• Native level fluency in an Indian language, preferably Hindi, and local working rights.

If working with Sequoia to establish their India operations and support the clean energy transition sounds motivating to you, and you meet the criteria above, please submit your resume and cover letter, addressing the skills required, quoting #1401812. To request a full information package please email: officeadministrator@ngorecruitment.com (no applications here please). Alternatively call Aya Long at NGO Recruitment in Brisbane, Australia on +61 7 5530 8066 for more information.

Please note there is no formal closing date for this role, if you are interested, we would encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

NGO Recruitment values equitable recruitment practices and is committed to representing candidates reflective of the diverse organisations and communities we work with. We welcome and encourage applications from all backgrounds, ages, and identities, and are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs. If you are interested in this position and have most of the skills or experience, we are looking for, please go ahead and apply.