Manager Innovative Finance
Rare · São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
**About Rare** Rare inspires change so people and nature thrive. For 50 years, across 60 countries, we have inspired and empowered millions of people and their communities to shift their behaviors and practices to protect our shared planet. We are a global leader in driving social change for people and nature and believe that the cumulative power of individual and community action is a vital pathway to safeguarding and restoring our shared waters, lands, and climate. Rare’s organizational culture is results\-oriented, and entrepreneurial, and our global programs cover the thematic areas of climate change, fisheries and marine conservation, sustainable agriculture food security, and Green Recovery. Rare Brazil is a Brazilian nonprofit established in 2014 under an Affiliate Agreement with Rare Inc. Rare's behavior\-adoption campaigns have reached more than 6,000 small\-scale fishers and 12,000 community members across 77 communities in eight states. Since 2019, Rare Brazil has concentrated its efforts in Para, working with local, state, and national partners to strengthen coastal fisheries governance. **Project Overview** Rare's Innovative Finance (IF) Team develops and scales financial solutions that mobilize capital for conservation and sustainable development. Working with governments, investors, insurers, philanthropies, and local communities, the team designs mechanisms such as impact bonds, blended\-finance vehicles, parametric insurance products, and outcome\-based financing (OBF) models that improve livelihoods while protecting nature. Rare seeks to unlock public, philanthropic, and private capital for community\-led conservation and reduce investment risks in coastal ecosystems. The program focuses on: * Designing and structuring outcome\-based finance instruments that channel capital to community\-led mangrove conservation and resilience on the Brazilian coast. * Adoption of nature\-based and behavior\-driven finance strategies to aid in climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience, reinforcing the management of community\-based resources and ecosystems * Structuring blended capital (public, philanthropic, and private) within Brazilian and international regulatory frameworks, overcoming the institutional and market barriers that currently limit the flow of finance into coastal conservation. * Aligning outcome metrics, monitoring, and verification with Brazil's existing environmental monitoring systems (for example, ICMBio's MONITORA program) and with community governance arrangements grounded in free, prior, and informed consent (FPIC) The Manager will lead the design of an OBF mechanism for mangrove protection along the Brazilian coast. Working with Rare Brazil, a technical and financial design firm, and legal counsel, the Manager will coordinate the intervention model, outcomes framework, verification architecture, financial structure, and pathway to capitalization. **Position Overview** The Innovative Finance Manager will report to the Vice President of Rare Brazil, and to the Innovative Finance Director for Latin America and the Innovative Finance Director for Blue Carbon. The Manager will support Rare's Innovative Finance portfolio in Brazil and ensure alignment between country priorities and the global program. **This full\-time position is based in Sao Paulo, Brasilia, or Belem, Brazil.** It requires domestic travel to coastal mangrove communities plus some international travel. The ideal candidate is organized, proactive, intellectually curious, and able to anticipate needs, manage competing priorities, and connect information across projects, partners, and teams. **Essential Functions** ***1\. Program Management (50%).*** * Supporting the design of financial instruments to drive capital towards community\-led mangrove conservation, and community resilience * Regularly updating Brazil, Innovative Finance teams and leaderships ensuring alignment between teams and with the broader organizational strategy. * Preparing and managing workplans, contracts, and sub\-agreements. * Collaborating with the Rare Brazil team, external consultants, and partners to implement project initiatives, including feasibility studies, landscape analyses, sector formalization, and enhancing access to social protection for local communities. * Ensuring compliance with donors and funders reporting requirements and timelines, including the preparation of progress and financial reports, and monitoring project risks to adapt plans as necessary * Traveling to build and maintain relationships with local governments, MSME owners, and coastal community members, fostering strong partnerships that support the implementation of the program’s goals * Facilitating capacity\-building efforts within local communities to enhance resilience and ensure long\-term sustainability of the financial initiatives. * Coordinate specialized external partners, including the technical and financial design partner. ***2\. Stakeholder Enga