Job Title: Innovative Finance Advisory Model Analyst
Sector: Research &
Development
Employment Category: Fixed Term
Employment Type: Full-Time
Open to Expatriates: No
Location: Nairobi, IHUB,
Kenya
Job Description
This role is open to
candidates located in NY, DC, US Remote, Jordan and Kenya.
The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive, rebuild, and gain control of their future. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, today we operate in 40 countries and 22 U.S. cities.
The Airbel Impact Lab is
IRC’s Research and Innovation team: We design, test and scale life-changing
solutions for people affected by conflict and disaster. We created a new, simpler approach to treating acute malnutrition,
we’ve developed a WhatsApp-based educational product to reach
out-of-school students, and we’ve built a tool to
simplify conducting cost-analyses and increase transparency in
the sector.
We’re an
interdisciplinary team, with designers, strategists, finance experts,
economists, behavioral scientists, and researchers all working together on
critical problems. We’re looking for our next Financial Analyst to join the
team.
About you
As the newest addition
to our Innovative Finance Practice, you’ll support the management of the
practice’s advisory model pilot, an innovative approach to impact investing
that brings together investors from the development and private sector, with
experts from the humanitarian sector. Working with a wide variety of
stakeholders across multiple time zones and technical capabilities, you will
coordinate the pilot’s various subprojects and communications, as well as
support the development of impact investment measurement and risk management
framework. This is a cutting-edge approach to blended finance investing for
communities affected by conflict and crisis designed to drive more capital to
where it is needed the most. Your work will be integral to the pilot’s success.
Duties &
Responsibilities
1. Develop
coordination and communications strategy for the ongoing Innovative Finance
Advisory Model: You’ll work closely with the Innovative Finance practice lead as
well as the technical lead from Economic Recovery and Development to support
the development of the core strategy for the advisory model pilot coordination,
learning, and communications. This includes day to day stakeholder management
and coordination, internal and external communications plans, documentation of
lessons learned, organization of investor workshops and training, as well as
supporting investment management, impact measurement, and risk mitigation
framework development. You’ll see immediate impact from your work: you’ll be
ensuring that the innovative finance advisory model pilot – the first of its
kind – is managed and measured successfully.
2. Support
the development of an investment pipeline: Leveraging evidence and
learning generated from the initial pilot, you will use your skills in finance
and investment management to develop a wider pipeline of potential impact
investing transactions, as well as partnerships.
3. Support
Advisory Model strategic initiatives: You’ll facilitate
decision-making with key stakeholders and organizational leadership by helping
to assess and articulate pathways, framing trade-offs, and outlining resource
requirements for different advisory model initiatives.
This role is a great fit
for someone who likes developing new approaches to complex problems, who can
drive teams towards effective and efficient decisions, who loves iterating
ideas with colleagues, and finally, someone who can jump between high-level
strategy and operational plans, budgets, and the details of execution. You are
passionate about impact investing and its promise to improve outcomes in
communities where increased investment and resilience is most needed.
Key Working
Relationships:
Position Reports
to: Innovative
Finance Practice Lead
Position directly
supervises: N/A
Indirect
Reporting: Technical Advisor, Enterprise Development & Employment,
IRC Economic Recovery and Development Technical Unit
Other Internal and/or
external contacts:
Internal:
·
Chief Research and Innovation Officer
·
Jordan Country and Regional Directors, and other IRC countries/regions as
relevant
·
Economic Recovery and Development Technical Unit, Jordan, and other IRC
technical teams as relevant
Minimum Requirements
·
You have a bachelor’s degree or with equivalent professional experience,
including 1-2 years of experience in conducting strategic planning, project
management, impact investing, leading on qualitative and quantitative analysis
to inform decision-making, and executing on plans.
·
You’re great at solving complex problems, bringing together quantitative
modeling and qualitative analysis, and can distill data into actionable
insights.
·
You’re able to engage and align an interdisciplinary team, communicate with
senior leaders, and facilitate a group to make effective decisions
·
You work well in a distributed, multicultural, fast paced environment
Preferred
Requirements
·
Experience as an analyst at either a bank or private equity firm
·
Working knowledge of public finance and infrastructure investment, including
related financial modeling
·
Fluency/working proficiency in Arabic
·
Previous work in either humanitarian or development contexts
·
Familiarity with quantitative and qualitative research methodologies
·
Experience/familiarity with NGO setting
Working Environment:
·
Standard work office environment
How to Apply
The IRC and IRC workers
must adhere to the values and principles outlined in IRC Way – Standards
for Professional Conduct. These are Integrity, Service, and
Accountability. In accordance with these values, the IRC operates and
enforces policies on Beneficiary Protection from Exploitation and Abuse, Child
Safeguarding, Anti Workplace Harassment, Fiscal Integrity, and
Anti-Retaliation.