Sustainable Finance & Innovative Capital Fellowship

About the role

The Fellowship is designed to help strengthen Emergi’s financial and investment foundation during its growth phase. It focuses on making Emergi more fundable by improving financial clarity, impact data, and capital structuring.

Responsibilities

• Support the development and refinement of financial models and unit economics
• Help prepare investor- and lender-ready materials (decks, financial narratives, assumptions)
• Support ongoing processes with public and impact financiers (e.g. Invest International, DGGF)
• Help articulate a coherent capital stack and scale-up logic
• Work with operational data to translate CO₂ reductions, fuel displacement, and gender outcomes into credible impact metrics
• Explore pathways for carbon-related or results-based finance (conceptual level)
• Support the design and preparation of crowdfunding initiatives
• Help structure investor communications and impact reporting for retail and impact investors
• Support onboarding of strategic private investors
• Assist in thinking through financial flows related to social funds / foundations and community contracting models
• Support documentation and clarity around financial governance

Requirements

A recent graduate or final-year student in finance, accounting, economics, business, sustainable finance, or a related field.

Comfortable with financial models, assumptions, and translating numbers into narratives.

Interested in innovative finance, sustainability, climate finance, or platform-based business models.

Curious, structured, and able to work with imperfect data.

Able to work independently in dynamic environments.

Willing and excited to go on field visits (experience not required, mindset is key).

Organised, thoughtful, and motivated by real-world impact.

Fluent in English; French is a plus.

Strong affinity with women’s empowerment and climate justice.

Qualifications

No specific qualifications are listed.

Skills

Financial modeling, financial narrative creation, investor relations, impact data translation, crowdfunding design, and financial governance support.

Benefits

A meaningful role in a mission-driven company at a critical growth stage.

Direct exposure to impact finance, public-private funding, and scale-up strategy.

Mentorship from founders and senior advisors.

A Fellowship stipend of 500 EUR/month.

Field visit costs covered.

Opportunity to grow into a longer-term role as Emergi scales.

Pay

500 EUR/month Fellowship stipend.

Schedule

Part-time role with flexible time commitment of 3 days per week.

Contact

To apply, submit a short motivation (maximum 400 words) and your CV here. Deadline: 28 February 2026. For queries, please contact: richard@emergi.nl.

Interviews

Interviews will take place in February with deployment starting in March.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We especially encourage women, people of colour, and candidates from or connected to West Africa to apply.