Role Overview

GigaClimate is seeking a highly motivated, analytical, and mission-driven intern to support strategic finance and non-dilutive fundraising. This internship will focus on grant and philanthropic funding strategy, grant/philanthropic funding application execution support, and building repeatable systems to help GigaClimate pursue funding efficiently and competitively.

This is a high-ownership role in a fast-paced climate venture environment. You will produce work that directly supports real funding opportunities and the creation of gigaton-scale climate companies.

About GigaClimate

GigaClimate is the next great transformational commercialization lab (e.g. Edison Labs, Bell Labs). We are a venture builder creating and commercializing the initial stages of gigatonne (GT) scale, billion person impact climate companies. GigaClimate creates theses (ideation), finds technologies (search), and builds companies to tackle climate change and major sustainability challenges. Most climate capital optimizes decarbonization; we build in two inevitable and underpriced mega-markets: Climate Adaptation & Resilience and the Regenerative Economy, projected to approach ~$1T annually by 2030.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a non-dilutive fundraising strategy and drive alignment within the different areas of the organization

• Build and manage a grant + non-dilutive funding pipeline across DOE, ARPA-E, NSF, SBIR/STTR, state programs, and foundations

• Create a tracker and calendar of deadlines, requirements, and internal owners

• Support the development of grant applications, including translating technical content into funder-ready narratives and ensuring strong alignment across milestones, impact, and budget narrative

• Coordinate internal inputs (bios, letters of support, citations, past performance, partner materials) to ensure submissions are complete and high quality

• Develop reusable templates and toolkits (boilerplate language, impact framing, milestone structures, submission checklists)

• Create a Grant/Philanthropic Funding Ops Playbook to make the non-dilutive fundraising process repeatable (process, timelines, roles, lessons learned)

• Support targeted research on mission-aligned capital sources and partnerships as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Current (or recent graduate) MBA

• Strong financial modeling, analytical and research skills; highly organized and detail-oriented

• Excellent writing and communication skills (ability to produce structured memos and narratives)

• Self-starter able to own workstreams from start to finish independently

• Baseline understanding of fundraising and non-dilutive funding principles (e.g., funding avenues, application cycles, typical requirements)

• Nice to have: prior exposure to grants, fellowships, research funding, philanthropic funding, public funding, or startup fundraising (through coursework, student orgs, internships, labs, or personal projects)
  
  

Additional Notes

• This is a high-ownership role with meaningful responsibility; you will be expected to deliver polished work products (memos, trackers, templates) used by the team.

• You will work in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities; comfort with ambiguity, iteration, and proactive communication is important.

• The role requires strong attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams and deadlines.

This role is San Francisco-based with the opportunity for hybrid work with a headquarters location in San Francisco. This role will report to the Finance Lead at GigaClimate. Compensation will be a competitive hourly rate for 40 hours/week. This position description is written as a guideline to inform interns of what is generally expected of them. The description is not intended to be all-encompassing or limiting in any manner; rather, it is hoped that it will add understanding and better reflect the work performed at all levels of the internship. Duties and responsibilities other than those listed may be included as needed within the work group or the company. We are committed to the philosophy of equal employment opportunity and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, ancestry, age, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability, medical condition, marital status, veteran status, or other non-job-related criteria.