Co-Founding General Partner of Impact Fund

Overview

Seeking a co-founding General Partner to build and launch an impact investment fund focused on climate mitigation and adaptation opportunities across the Global South, with a strong emphasis on measurable social and environmental outcomes and the strategic use of blended finance.

This is not a role within an established platform — it is a partnership opportunity to design, structure, capitalize, and lead a new institutional investment vehicle from inception.

The fund will target scalable, high-integrity investment opportunities across sectors such as:

• Renewable energy and distributed energy access
• Nature-based solutions (ARR, REDD+, mangroves, peatlands, regenerative agriculture)
• Climate adaptation infrastructure
• Carbon markets and environmental commodities

The strategy will combine commercial discipline with catalytic capital — leveraging public, philanthropic, and development finance alongside private institutional and impact investors.

As Co-Founding GP, you will be an equal partner in:

1. Fund Design & Structuring:

• Developing the investment thesis and differentiated strategy
• Structuring blended finance components (DFIs, foundations, concessional capital)
• Designing governance, incentive structures, and fund economics
• Engaging legal counsel on fund formation and regulatory positioning
• Defining impact measurement and reporting frameworks

2. Capital Raising:

• Co-leading fundraising from DFIs, foundations and catalytic capital providers, institutional LPs and family offices and impact investors
• Developing LP materials (PPM, pitch deck, financial model, track record framing)
• Leading LP due diligence processes
• Building strategic anchor LP relationships

3. Pipeline Development & Investment Execution

• Sourcing proprietary opportunities across the Global South
• Structuring investments (equity, quasi-equity, debt, carbon pre-purchase, offtake structures)
• Leading commercial and impact due diligence
• Negotiating term sheets and definitive agreements
• Building portfolio construction and risk management frameworks

4. Platform Building

• Hiring initial team members
• Building brand credibility in climate and impact ecosystems
• Representing the fund publicly

You are likely someone who:

• Has prior experience raising or deploying capital in emerging markets
• Understands blended finance structures and DFI processes
• Has credibility with institutional LPs and/or catalytic capital providers
• Has experience developing or investing in carbon projects
• Brings complementary sector or geographic expertise
• Is motivated by building something from first principles rather than joining an established platform
• Combines commercial discipline with genuine impact conviction

Experience across Africa, Latin America, South or Southeast Asia is highly valued.

Background of the other Co-Founding GP

Brings over a decade of experience managing microfinance programs in Central America, investing in renewable power projects and companies across Africa, and transacting in the voluntary carbon market.

This is:

• A true co-founder GP opportunity
• Long-term platform building
• Entrepreneurial and high-ownership

This is not:

• A salaried position within an existing fund
• A passive advisory role
• A short-term project

Climate mitigation and adaptation capital flows remain misaligned with where impact is most needed. There is a significant opportunity to structure capital in ways that:

• Reduce perceived risk in frontier markets
• Crowd in private investment
• Deliver measurable climate and livelihood outcomes
• Generate risk-adjusted financial returns.

The goal is to build an institution that can scale beyond a single fund.

If this resonates with you, please get in touch.