Manager, Impact First Investing
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Climate Lead empowers philanthropic leaders everywhere to take immediate and far-reaching climate action. Climate Lead equips new climate philanthropists with the information and insights they need to drive transformative solutions by serving as an impartial guide. We cut through the complexity by curating roadmaps in partnership with a diverse network of experts to help philanthropists make a bold impact on climate from day one.
Summary
The Manager, Impact-First Investing (IFI) leads project management, cross-functional content integration, and practice enablement as the organization develops and builds out its impact-first investing capability. Sitting at the intersection of deal coordination, investor engagement support, and team enablement, this role builds the internal operational infrastructure for IFI while driving high-quality engagement across key accounts externally from deals to families to fellow funders.
Working closely with the Vice President, IFI, the Manager ensures complete readiness for donor and investor engagements, tracks portfolio progress, and serves as an agile proxy to expand leadership capacity during high-priority engagements. Crucially, the Manager acts as a vital bridge between Global Climate Strategies (GCS) for deal technicals, Communications for investor-ready packaging, and the Advisory Team