The Project Finance Execution Manager will drive project financing transactions, coordinating due diligence and negotiations to support climate-focused restoration projects.
Job Mission
Terraformation’s mission is to accelerate global forest restoration as a critical climate solution, enabling high-quality, large-scale, and financially sustainable projects worldwide. The Project Finance (PF) team plays a central role in enabling this mission by securing and structuring the capital needed to launch and scale restoration projects. The Project Finance Execution Manager will directly advance this mission by driving project and acquisition financings from term sheet through close, ensuring rigorous due diligence, effective risk allocation, and seamless coordination across internal experts and external partners. This role strengthens Terraformation’s ability to execute complex transactions efficiently while supporting the team’s transition toward investor sales and long-term asset partnerships.
Salary Range: $120,000 - $150,000, plus equity (depending on location and experience)
Location: Remote; US
Responsibilities
- Coordinate internal and external stakeholders as you lead the execution of project financing transactions from term sheet through closing, including due diligence, and document negotiation.
- Manage cross-functional collaboration with project developers, ecology and carbon teams, legal, tax, and other technical consultants to ensure transactions progress smoothly.
- Review and negotiate project finance transaction documents and project contracts to effectively assign risk and align stakeholders.
- Interact with and interpret the financial model to quantify project risks, and support contract negotiation positions.
- Coordinate closing processes, manage deadlines, and adapt to evolving deal parameters with high accuracy and attention to detail.
- Build strong working relationships with counterparties, project partners, and potential investors.
- Collaborate with team members across time zones, including some irregular hours aligned with deal needs.
Minimum Qualifications
- Project finance experience, such as natural resources, power, renewable energy, forestry, or carbon.
- Execution experience of project finance transactions with limited supervision, including investor-facing responsibilities.
- Capable of building and/or interacting with financial models for analyzing and quantifying risk.
- Contract negotiation skills, including risk allocation across key project documents.
- High attention to detail, strong numeracy skills, and ability to thrive under deadline pressure during closings.
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and ability to work across time zones and tight deal deadlines.
- Team player with a can-do attitude.
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative, financial, or technical discipline.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working at a project developer or project capital provider.
- Experience working on projects in Africa and/or Asia.
- MBA
About Terraformation
Terraformation is committed to addressing climate change through the power of native forest restoration. Our portfolio of high-quality projects is designed to restore forests that will remove high quantities of carbon, renew ecosystems, enhance biodiversity, and create sustainable long-term community income and benefits. Our project teams have planted over 5 million biodiverse and native trees, restored nearly 2,000 hectares, and supported 68 forestry projects across 18 countries.
Our innovative approach not only equips local forestry teams with training, technology, and access to capital, but also empowers businesses to be a part of the solution to climate change. By funding our projects, businesses can directly address climate change, meet climate and net zero commitments, and enhance corporate sustainability initiatives.
Terraformation’s mission-driven global team, which includes experts in forestry science, carbon markets, operations management, and project finance, demonstrates how diverse backgrounds drive innovation and create significant impact.
Learn more at terraformation.com
We are an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. We will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable laws, including the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring, where relevant.
Top Skills
Financial Models
Project Finance
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