Job Description

We are seeking a Senior Technical Writer and Due-Diligence Lead to own and drive the preparation of client-ready technical documents, due-diligence responses, and funding proposals. This role will ensure that Varaha's technical expertise is communicated clearly, consistently, and credibly across stakeholders, including investors, auditors, standard bodies, and grant-makers.

This is a cross-functional role requiring strong scientific grounding, precision writing skills, and the ability to manage processes across technical, operations, and commercial teams.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Receive and classify client questionnaires and proposal requests. Identify what can be answered immediately, what requires expert input, and what needs new documentation. Draft precise technical answers with sources, assumptions, and clear limits of any claim. Create missing appendices, standard operating procedures, diagrams, and data summaries. Coordinate inputs across teams. Set timelines. Drive review and approval to completion. Maintain a structured answer library and a client-ready document repository. Keep language and facts consistent across proposals, contracts, and project materials. Lead or support grant applications. Align writing with reviewer criteria and commercial goals. Guide the commercial team on how to present technical content accurately and consistently.

Qualifications

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Based in Europe or India. Willing to travel to India and to project sites when needed. 5 to 10 years working on smallholder regenerative agriculture and/or agroforestry in Africa or Asia. Proven technical writing for due-diligence processes, project design documents, monitoring reports, or proposal responses. Provide writing samples. Successful grant writing or proposal leadership with measurable funding results. Strong understanding of nature-based carbon projects: baselines, additionality, permanence, leakage, and risk buffers. Working knowledge of soil carbon and biomass measurement, monitoring, reporting, verification, and sampling design. Able to read agronomy data and remote-sensing outputs and turn them into concise, defensible claims. Sound business judgment. Presents benefits, costs, and risks without exaggeration. Reliable process habits: structured intake, targeted requests to experts, careful citation, and disciplined document management. Excellent written English.

Preferred

Experience with Verra, Gold Standard, or Plan Vivo, including auditor interactions. Experience writing standard operating procedures for field protocols, quality assurance, and quality control. Familiarity with working in India.

Additional Information

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What we offer

Join a small, ambitious, and international team and enjoy the following benefits:

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

Please note

this job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Varaha is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This company does not discriminate in employment and personnel practices based on race, sex, age, handicap, religion, national origin or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. Hiring, transferring and promotion practices are performed without regard to the above listed items.