About Tara
Tara is a new philanthropic initiative in Asia. Tara’s vision is a just and thriving Asia powered by renewable energy. Our mission is to support a diverse group of partners to accelerate Asia’s energy transformation. Tara funds think tanks, civil society, research organizations and other non-state actors, and our mandate includes Southeast Asia, East Asia excluding China, and South Asia excluding India. Tara has a team of 15 people working across the region, including country leads in most of our key focus countries.
Tara is currently hosted at the European Climate Foundation, but with a mandate to localise into an independent regranting foundation in the future, with the strong backing of the ECF and other philanthropic foundations.
The European Climate Foundation (ECF) was established in 2008 as a major philanthropic initiative to help Europe foster the development of a low-carbon society and play an even stronger international leadership role to mitigate climate change. The foundation works through several sectoral, cross-cutting and regional initiatives and collaborates with a wide network of partners to advance progress towards this shared goal. The ECF also hosts a number of initiatives with a global outreach.
About the role
As the Finance Director, you will be responsible for ensuring proper financial management of a multi-milliondollar programme and organisation.
Tara aims to localise in the Southeast Asia region. This means that the a Finance Director will take on the exciting role of designing and planning the financial structure of a new foundation . Once Tara becomes an independent regranting organisation, the Finance Director will have overall control and responsibility for the financial management of the entire organisation.. Tara has a fast-paced work environment that will challenge you to think on your feet, solve problems and juggle competing demands
The ideal candidate will have several years of experience in a similar role and will be excited at the prospect of working for a small, but dynamic and growing organisation with a mission to solve the climate crisis.
Key responsibilities
Reporting to the Managing Director (in the future this position will report to the Chief Operating Officer), the Finance Director will have the following responsibilities:
Experience and competencies
What we can offer you
Location
The ideal candidate will have a legal permit to reside and work in Singapore. We may also consider outstanding candidates residing in other countries in the Tara region, namely South, Southeast or East Asia (excluding China and India).
Start date
As soon as possible
How to apply
Please upload below (until 3rd May):
All applications will be treated confidentially. We will store your information in our internal database unless you specifically request otherwise.