Impact Finance is seeking a highly skilled, collaborative, and motivated Director of Impact Measurement and Management to join our dynamic Strategy team. This leadership role will report to the Chief Strategy Officer and will lead efforts to elevate the evaluation of our socially and environmentally focused investments, quantify the impact and value of our deals, identify new and emerging opportunities to demonstrate positive contributions, and amplify storytelling to clarify our impact (internally and externally). This leadership role requires strong strategic vision, demonstrated ability to build consensus, a bias for action, and expertise in impact measurement, program evaluation, evaluation research, and project management frameworks.  The Director of Impact Measurement and Management will work with a diverse set of internal stakeholders, including Impact Finance’s Senior Leadership Team, the Strategy team and relevant reporting bodies to mitigate risk and produce audit-ready data that showcases the ways that our growing platform contributes positively to people and the planet.

Responsibilities include partnering across the Strategy, Business Transformation, Finance and Senior Leadership Team to help the organization refine and bolster its quantitative and qualitative impact measurement plan.  This leader will liaise with key partners on data integrity, data collection processes, data catalogues/definitions, reporting and data governance.  This leader will also interface with relevant Enterprise partners to deepen connectivity and refine reporting processes.  Additionally, this individual will provide thought leadership and use third-party validation, industry leading practices, and/or tested scorecards, impact reports, or dashboards to ensure alignment to impact measurement and management best-practice standards.  This individual will also help the organization apply these learnings to differentiate the business in the marketplace, produce thought leadership and inspire industry-level change-making. This includes partnering with other institutions on research, peer learning, white papers, and conference presentations.

The ideal candidate is an engaging people leader with experience in building alignment, identifying synergies, empowering teams, and bringing cohesion to diverse bodies of work.  The successful candidate will lead with a people-first mindset, prioritize deepening relationships, radically listen, and be able to work across silos to bridge gaps and connect dots.  As a player-coach, the Director of Impact Measurement and Management will develop a plan to mature our evaluation capabilities, while also managing a team of talented evaluation and measurement experts who are accountable for defining, collecting and analyzing impact metrics, continuously improving our ability to showcase impact on people and planet, reporting, and synthesizing insights for leaders.  This leader will have a passion for driving positive change and will empower teams across the organization to understand, measure and manage impact effectively.

• Master's degree, or equivalent work experience
• 10 or more years of experience in project management activities
• Two or more years of managerial experience

• Experience designing and/or implementing frameworks and tools for measuring impact, including logic models, program rubrics, and theories of change
• Expertise in driving continuous improvement. Demonstrated ability to build and scale the implementation of large-scale organization priorities, including developing strategy, getting buy-in and assessing ongoing process improvement
• Experience in organizational effectiveness, strategy, and/or change management to drive awareness, understanding and amplification of impact
• Deep knowledge of impact measurement methodologies, data analysis, or evaluation with ability to ensure processes are rigorous, relevant and aligned with industry best practices
• Experience with qualitative or quantitative data collection, analysis and synthesis
• Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights and recommendations
• Commitment to fostering an inclusive and collaborative team culture and providing ongoing growth/development opportunities and coaching
• Experience in producing clear and compelling reports that communicate impact findings to internal and external stakeholders, including investors, partners, and regulators
• Creative and entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to connect dots and work across verticals to drive towards outcomes
• Collaborative management style that coaches and empowers team members to do their best work
• Ability to influence without positional power and foster effective partnerships
• Strong project management skills, including the ability to connect work to broader strategy and simultaneously bring in the right partners for needed execution
• Experience working in or with financial services, community development, nonprofit, government, public policy, CDFI, or renewable energy organizations and adjacent industries is desired
• Understanding of financial metrics is a plus, but not required