Senior Technical Writer and Due-Diligence Lead Varaha

5.0 - 10.0 years

0 Lacs

haryana

On-site

As a Senior Technical Writer and Due-Diligence Lead at Varaha, you will be responsible for owning and driving the preparation of client-ready technical documents, due-diligence responses, and funding proposals. Your role will involve ensuring that Varaha's technical expertise is effectively communicated to various stakeholders, such as investors, auditors, standard bodies, and grant-makers. **Roles and Responsibilities:** - Receive and classify client questionnaires and proposal requests. Identify immediate answers, expert input requirements, and new documentation needs. - Draft precise technical answers with clear sources, assumptions, and claim limits. - Create missing appendices, standard operating procedures, diagrams, and data summaries. - Coordinate inputs across teams, set timelines, and drive review and approval processes. - Maintain a structured answer library and a client-ready document repository to ensure consistency across proposals, contracts, and project materials. - Lead or support grant applications, aligning writing with reviewer criteria and commercial goals. - Guide the commercial team on accurately presenting technical content. **Qualifications:** - Must be based in Europe or India with a willingness to travel to India and project sites as required. - 5 to 10 years of experience in smallholder regenerative agriculture and/or agroforestry in Africa or Asia. - Proven track record in technical writing for due-diligence processes, project design documents, monitoring reports, or proposal responses. Writing samples must be provided. - Successful experience in grant writing or proposal leadership with measurable funding outcomes. - Strong understanding of nature-based carbon projects, including baselines, additionality, permanence, leakage, and risk buffers. - Working knowledge of soil carbon and biomass measurement, monitoring, reporting, verification, and sampling design. - Ability to interpret agronomy data and remote-sensing outputs into concise, defensible claims. - Sound business judgment with the ability to present benefits, costs, and risks accurately. - Reliable process habits including structured intake, targeted requests to experts, careful citation, and disciplined document management. - Excellent written English skills. **Preferred:** - Experience with Verra, Gold Standard, or Plan Vivo, including interactions with auditors. - Experience in writing standard operating procedures for field protocols, quality assurance, and quality control. - Familiarity with working in India. Join Varaha's small, ambitious, and international team and benefit from: - Competitive salary & ESOPs policy - Key role in shaping a fast-growing climate tech startup - Support for learning & professional development - A culture of undogmatic, unbureaucratic creativity and collaboration,

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