AVP, Strategic Initiatives - India

About Impact Investment Exchange (IIX)

Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) is a pioneer in the global impact investing movement, dedicated to reshaping finance for sustainable development with a focus on gender equality and climate action through capital mobilization and data-based solutions. For over a decade and a half, we've been building the sustainable investing market, from establishing the world's largest crowdfunding platform for impact investing (Impact Partners™), operating award-winning enterprise technical assistance programs, creating innovative financial products such as the Women's Livelihood Bond™ Series, (listed 6 bonds in the public market with zero credit default) and establishing an Impact Institute and Research & Advisory. While we are very deep with our work in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa, our work spans 60 countries globally where we have invested close to $500 million of private-sector capital, positively impacted over 160 million direct and household lives, and avoided over 1.9 million metric tons of carbon and have collected over 90,000+ data points on sustainable micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). The base of IIX's work is IIX Values™, an impact verification tech solution measuring investments' social and environmental impact to the last mile, amplifying the voices of the underserved. In 2022, we, along with global partners, launched the Orange Movement™ and, within that, created a new asset class, Orange Bond, to demonstrate the intersectionality of gender equality and climate action and unlock $10 billion in capital markets by 2030, impacting 100 million women, girls, and gender minorities and making them a key player in climate mitigation and adaptation efforts. In 2024, we unveiled our global data hub, IIX Intelligence™, which aggregates, evaluates, and benchmarks data from sustainable MSMEs, offering unparalleled insights into gender diversity, climate action, ESG performance, and community risk management. IIX Intelligence demonstrates with data the importance of MSMEs as a backbone of sustainable development. Numerous accolades, including the Oslo Business for Peace and the UN Global Climate Action Award, have recognized our efforts. Our team’s 'PREM' values—passion, resilience, equity, and mavericks—propel our efforts, bringing meaningful change to Global South communities and the 99%.

www.iixglobal.com

About IIX Foundation

IIX Foundation is the corporate foundation of Impact Investment Exchange (IIX). We are a registered US 501(c)3 charitable organization and registered Singapore charity. The Foundation is dedicated to supporting women across all stages of their journey to empowerment—to transform themselves, their futures and to create a gender-equal world for the next generation. We do this by nurturing women to become active and equal participants in society. We equip them with education and knowledge to gain better livelihoods, start and grow businesses, become investors and run inclusive businesses that in turn, impact more underserved women.

www.iixfoundation.com

About the role:

AVP, Strategic Initiatives is responsible for supporting the CEO’s Office on business development, executing key strategic initiatives, proposal development, implementing project plans, fostering external partnerships, and otherwise facilitating the objectives and priorities of the company. Successful candidates will have exposure to senior management and high-level external stakeholders while collaborating across numerous departments of IIX and creating new frontiers in global sustainable finance.

The broad areas of work will include:

• Grow and develop strategic initiatives and get involved in organization-wide operational efforts such as partnership development;
• Support the Senior leader in developing proposals for product development and advisory assignments;
• Cultivate and close relationships with individual partners to enhance IIX’s visibility, access, and influence, while developing a broader platform for further pipeline building;
• Create and direct new business opportunities;
• Develop an understanding of IIX’s strategy and preferred approach for partnerships and program fundraising;
• Help and assist the senior leaders in identifying new markets and identifying potential growth opportunities within existing and for new markets;
• Assist Senior leaders and CEO with strategy and relevant materials for meetings.
• Develop tactical action plans with assigned projects to address key business needs, measure and track results in line with the corporate strategy;
• Participate in meetings with the senior leaders together with high-level stakeholders and partners;
• Assist the senior leaders in creating business plans and proposals (for new business ideas) and review data to monitor progress across their business initiatives; and
• Any other duties as determined by the senior management related to company growth

Qualifications & Requirements:

• Critical thinking skills, attention to detail, and ability to work in an agile environment
• With 6 yrs of experience in Management Consulting / Corporate Strategy / Founder's Office.
• Any prior experience in Sustainability / Impact Investing is an added advantage (but not mandatory)
• International profile with an understanding of global impact dynamics
• Background studies: Finance, business, economics, or related• Excellent Project Management and PowerPoint development skills
• Strong problem-solving & analytical skills
• Deeply passionate about driving inclusion through financial reform
• Ability to research and ideate, create something tangible from something vague
• Comfortable with different cultures
• Dare to share views and ideas in a constructive, problem-solving manner
• Self-awareness on leveraging strengths and working on weaknesses

Start date – Immediate

Location – India

'IIX is an equal opportunity employer'