Position:
Director of Mission-Aligned Investments
Location:
New York City
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Application Deadline:
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
About the Role
AV is building out a mission-aligned investing team that will invest across the organization’s focus areas. The team will have a broad mandate to further the philanthropic goals of the organization, with discretion to invest across the capital structure (debt through equity), as a limited partner in funds, and via credit enhancements and guarantees. The team will develop and invest in opportunities where market-rate and concessionary capital can catalyze private and public sector investment. Investments will be made from a $5 billion endowment. This is a highly entrepreneurial opportunity to be on the ground floor of shaping an investment platform with substantial flexibility and resources to maximize impact for millions of Americans.
The role may be structured as a generalist who invests across AV’s focus areas or a specialist who focuses on a high-priority investment area. This position is based in AV’s New York City office and reports to the Executive Vice President, Mission-Aligned Investments.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead deal teams that include programmatic, investment, and legal colleagues to execute new investments, including thesis formation, sourcing, initial evaluation, investment shaping with company executives and co-investors, structuring, due diligence, and financial modeling, and negotiation of legal documentation
- Partner closely with programmatic colleagues to understand the evidence base, policy landscape, and philanthropic goals in critical investment areas
- Source potential investments through active outreach and relationship-building with CEOs, senior executives, and investors
- Present investments to AV’s Board of Directors
- Manage portfolio investments, including relevant board observer responsibilities
Qualifications
- 10 years of investment experience with leading venture capital or private equity/credit firms, investment banks, or developers
- Excellent financial transaction experience and financial analysis, modeling, and due diligence skills
- Exceptional strategy development, deal sourcing, deal execution, and portfolio engagement skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate investment and financial concepts to diverse, nontechnical audiences
