Senior Associate, Transactions - Environmental Infrastructure

Connecticut Green Bank • Hartford, CT

2d • $90,000 - $110,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Connecticut Green Bank (hereafter "Green Bank") is seeking a Senior Associate, Transactions to join its Environmental Infrastructure Programs team.
The Senior Associate, Transactions will help the Green Bank to develop and implement a new business unit of the organization and transform public and private investment in Environmental Infrastructure. The successful candidate will work to support execution across an active pipeline of lending transactions and special projects. The successful candidate will demonstrate ownership of discrete analyses within project workplans, contributing to overall project management and key deliverables.
The Senior Associate, Transactions will bring prior experience and competency in Environmental Infrastructure, such as organic waste management solutions, climate adaptation and resiliency inclusive of nature-based solutions, and natural and working lands inclusive of environmental markets, or other related industries. They will also support a core goal of this business unit, ensuring increased investment in underserved communities. This position will report to the Director and work closely with the Environmental Infrastructure team to manage various projects and efforts associated with portfolio and program development. The successful candidate will have a proclivity to grow sector expertise within the Environmental Infrastructure scope and an ability to operate with increasing autonomy.
The Green Bank is a quasi-public authority and the nation's first state-level "Green Bank," leveraging public funds to increase and accelerate private investment in the green economy of Connecticut. Working at the Green Bank means being part of a dynamic team of talented people who are passionate about implementing the green bank model, stimulating the growth and development of clean energy and environmental infrastructure investment in Connecticut - growing our economy, strengthening our communities, and protecting our environment.

Requirements

• Strong financial and analytical skills, with experience in underwriting, modeling, or risk analysis.
• Demonstrated experience supporting transactions and related projects, ideally in areas related to environmental infrastructure, conservation finance, waste management, public finance, community development, or similar.
• Ability to execute projects from start to finish, managing moving pieces and deadlines.
• A passion for mission-driven finance, especially advancing solutions for climate, conservation, and vulnerable communities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to distill complex market or policy reports into clear, relevant takeaways.
• Adaptability and collaboration, with an ability to balance rigor with creativity, humor, curiosity, and humility to further our growing team's ethos.
• Qualified candidates must have a bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., finance, environmental science, community planning, conservation resource management, or similar) from an accredited university and at least 2 years' experience in program development, project management, or investment management in fields related to environmental infrastructure in one or more financial sectors, including: Impact investing Small business lending Community development finance Project finance and infrastructure lending Economic development Municipal finance

Nice To Haves

• Experience working at the state or local level, experience working with state or federal agencies, or related programs.
• Demonstrated ability to understand social and ecological principles and financial market dynamics and to integrate them into strategies and actions.
• Comfort with uncertainty and an inclination to prevent or solve problems.
• Ability to anticipate and/or ascertain the needs of partners and stakeholders.
• Proficiency with excel and Microsoft Office Suite

Responsibilities

• Support Environmental Infrastructure Team transaction leads by executing discrete tasks across multiple concurrent deals in coordination with the Legal and Investment teams, ensuring deliverables are accurate, timely, and aligned with internal standards.
• Participate in internal working sessions and external diligence calls; document decisions, action items, and follow-ups.
• Manage administrative processes proactively and in alignment with Green Bank Operating Procedures, such as executing NDAs, approval processes, and tracking projects.
• Draft, edit, and format screening memos, underwriting memos, investment summaries, and board materials in collaboration with transaction leads.
• Translate technical, operational, and regulatory diligence into clear, decision-useful summaries, highlighting risks, mitigants, and open questions.
• Prepare concise executive summaries that align deal narrative, impact rational, and credit case.
• Organize diligence materials and maintain deal data rooms and folders in accordance with internal conventions.
• Review counterparty materials (financial statements, projections, permits, contracts, engineering reports, budgets, project schedules) and produce structured takeaways.
• Maintain diligence checklists, track outstanding requests, and ensure responses are incorporated into updated analysis and memos.
• Utilize CRM systems to record touchpoints with stakeholders and relationships.
• Maintain situational awareness of the broader investment pipeline, proactively coordinating due diligence requests and flagging bottlenecks, emerging risks, or identified needs to the transaction leads.
• Develop materials summarizing investment strategies, transaction structures, and potential addressable market in Connecticut.
• Organize materials (e.g. bill versions) and coordinate bill tracking to support effective public policy engagement and response by the Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs and the Environmental Infrastructure team.
• Help to establish key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Support the team's timely and sufficient reporting to Green Bank colleagues, Board of Directors, legislature, and peer agencies.
• Ensure any relevant data is being collected, stored, analyzed, protected, and disseminated as appropriate.
• Represent the Green Bank in virtual and in-person conferences, events, and presentations as relevant.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Employment includes a State of CT benefits package including generous time-off, health insurance covering medical, dental and vision, retirement, tuition reimbursement for continuing education, and paid leave.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level