Title: Director, Sagana Consulting (Senior Director considered for an exceptional candidate)

Location: Australia-based strongly preferred; fully remote, with travel for client and partner engagement as needed

Reports to: Business Unit lead / Head of Sagana Consulting and Co-Founder

Company:

Sagana is a global impact investment advisory firm working to unleash the potential of people, capital, and business to improve human and planetary health. We are passionate about advising, investing in, and growing companies that are successfully solving some of the biggest challenges of our time - and to helping other investors to do the same. We leverage decades of experience in private equity, impact advisory, and entrepreneurship to scale big ideas that create an abundant, thriving world for all.

Our name means “Abundance” in Tagalog, and this is core to who we are. To learn more about what sets us apart, check out our video: Sagana - Unleashing Potential

Sagana Consulting:

Sagana Consulting advises investors, development organisations, foundations, corporations, and other allocators of capital on maximising the transformational effect of their resources. We draw on our expertise as business consultants and investors, combined with our deep understanding of local markets, to co-create investment strategies and financial vehicles that empower our clients to deepen their positive impact. Our clients include organisations such as the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, BII, DFAT, responsAbility, the Gates Foundation, and the Cartier Women’s Initiative.

Opportunity:

We are seeking a commercially driven Director to grow Sagana Consulting’s business in Australia, with a particular focus on the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Australian Development Investments (ADI), and the wider Australian international development and blended finance ecosystem. This is a market-building role: the successful candidate will spot emerging opportunities, build senior relationships and convert them into consulting mandates across Australia and the Asia-Pacific.

The successful candidate should be conversant with gender-lens and impact investing, while also recognising opportunities to connect clients with Sagana’s broader capabilities in blended finance, climate, evaluations. Direct experience with an impact investor is highly valued but not essential where the candidate brings strong commercial and advisory experience.

The role combines business origination, strategic partnerships and senior client leadership, with access to Sagana’s global specialists for technical expertise and project delivery. It offers significant flexibility to shape the Australian growth agenda and opportunities to collaborate with Sagana Capital. Senior Director level may be considered for an exceptional candidate.

Responsibilities:

- Develop and execute Sagana Consulting’s Australia growth strategy,



with explicit priorities for target clients, partnerships, pipeline development and conversion.
- Build and leverage senior relationships across DFAT, its Australian Development Investments (ADI) initiative, DFAT-funded delivery partners, development finance actors, foundations and impact investors.
- Proactively identify new opportunities by tracking client priorities, funding and procurement developments, market trends and gaps where Sagana can add value.
- Own the full business-development cycle: originate and qualify leads, shape winning propositions, lead proposals and pitches, negotiate terms and close contracts.
- Form and nurture strategic partnerships and consortia with Australian advisory firms, implementers and specialist organisations to access and win larger opportunities.
- Position Sagana’s expertise in gender-lens investing and impact integration, while identifying opportunities to cross-sell complementary advisory services in climate finance, blended finance and related fields.
- Serve as a trusted senior point of contact for Australian clients and partners, strengthening existing accounts and identifying opportunities for repeat and expanded work.
- Lead the commercial scoping and delivery oversight of consulting assignments, ensuring clear client value, high-quality delivery and strong ongoing relationships.
- Work with global teams and manage multidisciplinary consultants to mobilise expertise and deliver projects on time, within budget and to a high standard.
- Bring Australian and Southeast Asian market intelligence into Sagana’s regional strategy and collaborate with Sagana Capital where investment and consulting opportunities intersect.
- Represent Sagana at relevant government, development, finance and impact-investing events and professional networks.

Essential Skills and Experience:

- Significant senior-level experience in consulting, advisory services, international development, investment management, impact investing or another relevant client-facing professional-services environment.
- A proven commercial record of identifying and converting opportunities, including shaping propositions, leading competitive bids, winning contracts and growing client accounts.
- Strong knowledge of DFAT, its Australian Development Investments (ADI) initiative and the wider Australian development ecosystem, including key stakeholders, priorities, funding and procurement dynamics.
- Established senior relationships across the Australian development, finance or impact investing ecosystem,



with the credibility and initiative to expand those networks.
- A solid working understanding of gender-lens and impact investing, including how gender and impact considerations can be integrated into investment strategies, financial vehicles and development programmes.
- Ability to spot and cross-sell opportunities across Sagana’s broader offerings, including climate, blended and innovative finance, drawing on technical colleagues to shape credible solutions.
- Experience leading complex client assignments and multidisciplinary teams, with accountability for delivery quality, budgets and stakeholder relationships.
- Excellent executive-level communication, writing and presentation skills, coupled with an entrepreneurial, self-directed approach and ease working across cultures and time zones.

Desirable Experience:

- Hands-on experience with DFAT-funded programmes, ADI initiatives, Australian Government tenders or consortium bids.
- Professional experience in impact investing, blended or innovative finance, fund management, development finance or investor-facing advisory work.
- Knowledge of Southeast Asian impact investing markets, fund managers, investors and development partners; familiarity with Pacific or South Asian markets is also valued.
- Practical experience designing or implementing gender-lens investing approaches, women’s economic empowerment programmes, gender advisory for financial institutions, impact strategies or impact measurement systems.
- Experience establishing a new market presence or growing a regional practice, including ownership of commercial growth targets.

Values: Our shared values guide all that we do:

- Courage - Is what empowers us to think differently, ask difficult questions, speak our minds, act on what we believe in, and find opportunities that others don’t always see
- Authenticity - Is what guides us to bring our whole selves to our endeavors and not hide behind a mask. It brings out our honesty, creativity, and enthusiasm that allows us to use our full potential in delivering our work
- Respect - Is the foundation of all relationships – with ourselves, our clients and partners, our colleagues, our communities, and our planet
- Responsibility - Is what we take for the world in which we live. We hold ourselves accountable for the decisions we make and the actions we take as people and as a company every day
- Excellence - We are committed to being our best. Because creating a better future takes more than good intentions.

Inclusion:

We are actively creating a workplace where authentic communication, collaboration, and inclusion enable people to become their best selves both personally and professionally while having a career with purpose and impact.

Apply:

To be considered for this career opportunity, apply via the link. Any queries submit your CV to contact the Talent team at Sagana: [email protected]

📌 Consulting Director - Australia
🏢 SAGANA
📍 Australia