About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Engage in sourcing, due diligence, financial modeling and portfolio management for impact investments
• Conduct research, analyze data, and review evidence to support project design decisions, test hypotheses, and drive recommendations
• Familiarity with data analysis and visualization and ability to create data dashboards to track portfolio performance and visualize trends
• Create presentation materials to share analysis, key findings and recommendations for both internal team and external partners
• Research potential project partners, analyzing their performance and ability to achieve future outcomes
• Work with current service provider partners to optimize operations and help achieve project outcomes
• Support drafting of contract and governance documents
• Collaborate with evaluation firms, when needed, to identify and measure key performance outcomes
• Supporting capital raise and investor management, as relevant 
• Writing blog posts and support the creation of white papers and reports that publish key learnings and findings from our work
• Contributing to and support research efforts in social issue areas and interventions 
• Supporting analysis and writing for responses to proposal documents (i.e. Requests for Proposals) and concept notes for potential business development opportunities
• Creating communications materials and preparing managers for external calls that could lead to new opportunities
• Contributing to capacity-building initiatives, such as recruiting, professional development, knowledge management, fundraising, or other internal projects
• Providing real-time feedback to team members to support professional growth and contribute to high-quality deliverables
• Support our goal to foster a culture of well-being and belonging   
• Supporting senior management, internal functional teams, and Social Finance project teams as needed 

Qualifications

• 2-5 years of full-time professional experience with at least 2 years of transactional experience within impact investing, investment banking, private credit, venture capital, or private equity (demonstrated formal investment training is a plus) 
• Advanced experience in Excel and financial modeling; Advanced PowerPoint experience
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including experience or demonstrated capacity to learn data visualization programs (i.e. PowerBi or Tableau) and statistical coding programs (i.e. R or Stata) 
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to quickly research, synthesize and summarize key takeaways on unfamiliar topics
• Ability to communicate and work closely with many types of partners across multiple sectors; willingness to constructively express your point of view and hear the point of view of others, both internally and externally
• Commitment to high quality work and accuracy, with an ability to manage multiple and competing priorities simultaneously
• Capacity to work independently while contributing to team projects as appropriate
• Demonstrated interest in and knowledge of or willingness to learn about key issues in nonprofit management, social interventions, government services, and/or impact investing
• Ability to adapt and be flexible
• Commitment to enhancing a team culture of inclusion, belonging and equity
• Experience in or with the systems we seek to impact is preferable  

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