Bd Advisor

**Where you fit**

Shell Foundation is a charity registered in England and Wales, founded by Shell in 2000, that creates and scales business solutions that empower underserved populations to earn a living income through access to clean energy products and services.

**Job Purpose**:
To build partnerships and grow enterprises, institutions and ecosystems that will help under-served people and businesses in India to get access to reliable, clean energy sources at scale. To learn lessons from the experience of these organisations and share the learnings with partners to improve industry understanding and effectiveness.

**Responsible for**:
Day to day responsibilities include engagement meetings with partners to actively track progress, investor engagement, and communication with strategic partners on learnings, challenges and new opportunities and updating SF systems to track portfolio progress and share learnings across the team.
- Provide business advice and mentoring support towards the effective management and scale-up of a portfolio of SF partners, working closely with partners and growing their businesses to achieve defined developmental and financial milestones and KPIs
- Responsibility for the management of a portfolio of grants, guarantees, other investments and contracts, ensuring provision of value-added advice and monitoring performance against agreed milestones and KPIs
- Identify market failures and opportunities for partnerships or business models where clean energy solutions can contribute to increasing incomes of customers earning below living income
- Landscaping the market and assessing different projects and companies to help identify compelling businesses models to back.
- Involvement in all aspects of due diligence on new partnerships or enterprise investments (customer thesis, competitive landscaping, business model assessment, and proposal writing).

Build and support network with external organizations such as investors, enterprises, donors and corporates with aligned mission.

**Technical Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**:
**Skills & Experience**
- Minimum of 7 years of experience of working in an entrepreneurial or enterprise environment evaluating impactful solutions, ideally serving customers (specifically smallholder farmers) earning below living income in rural India
- A track record of providing venture building support leading to businesses operating at scale
- Experience of leveraging venture capital, commercial or social investment funding into enterprise solutions
- A good understanding of business disciplines in marketing, finance, business development and related fields and how these deliver value
- Evidence of managing stakeholder relationships and multi-stakeholder partnerships
- A proven and demonstrated interest, supported by practical experience, of sustainable development/ social investment
- Highly motivated and results orientated
- A creative problem-solving mindset towards unstructured challenges
- Great communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills
- Ability to work well with cross-functional teams

**Qualifications**

**Competencies**
- Initiative and Resourceful
- Team working
- Communications / influencing
- Stakeholder management
- Planning & organizing
- Commitment to upholding and working in alignment with SF Values

**COMPANY DESCRIPTION**

**An inspiring place to work**

Since its beginning, Shell Foundation has played a central role in creating an ‘energy access’ sector and during the next nine years, we will be at heart of scaling it. We will enable 60 million people (majorly smallholder farmers, urban transporters and microentrepreneurs) to earn a living income with clean energy by 2032.

To achieve this, we will connect global investors from across the public and private sectors with world class businesses and innovative technology, empowering as many women as men, and catalysing local entrepreneurship. We will also achieve a low-carbon future that helps to establish Africa and India on a path to inclusive growth.

**An inclusive place to work**

Achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and work together. Through our commitment to enriching our organisation with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and achieve our mission. We strive for a culture of trust and respect, where everyone can contribute their perspective and authentic selves, reaches their potential as individuals and teams, and collaborates to do their best work.