Managing Director, Entrepreneur Backed Impact Foundation, Germany

PER, Private Equity Recruitment; Frankfurt; Vor Ort; EUR 100.000 - 125.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A forward-thinking charitable foundation is seeking a dynamic managing director to lead its mission of addressing childhood inequality in Germany. This role involves day-to-day leadership, strategic evolution, and financial management of the charity. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in private equity and impact investing, with a passion for social change. You will work closely with social entrepreneurs to deploy funds into promising projects, ensuring maximum impact on child welfare. Join a unique opportunity to create lasting societal change while collaborating with a distinguished group of investors.

Qualifikationen

• Proven record in building organizations and value in the private sector.
• Strong financial skills and experience in active portfolio management.

Aufgaben

• Lead the organization and manage personnel and culture.
• Oversee financial management and fundraising efforts.
• Build a network of social entrepreneurs and analyze project impacts.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

Financial Management

Communication Skills

Entrepreneurial Drive

Impact Investing

Jobbeschreibung

About our client

We are working with the board of a distinctive new charitable foundation, set up by a high profile group of entrepreneurs and investors to address inequality for children in Germany.

The founders have committed a significant amount of seed funding which will build over time and through ongoing investment returns will create a material annual cashflow to the charity. This in turn will be deployed into supporting the aims of the foundation.

The board wishes to identify an additional managing director to complement the existing leadership team with incremental commercial experience. The foundation's strategy is to address causes of inequality systematically and at scale. They therefore wish to support a select group of social entrepreneurs and their chosen causes with a long-term financial commitment as well as a governance framework that can be replicated and scaled to have maximum impact on child welfare.

The foundation targets long term impact, not financial return.

What the job involves

1. Day to day leadership of the organisation; management responsibility for personnel, culture and the growth of the team
2. Evolution of the foundation's strategy and reporting to the board
3. The financial management of the charity including its cost base / outgoings as well as future fundraising
4. Building a network of social entrepreneurs and a pipeline of social enterprises that meet the qualifying criteria, analysing the costs and impact of each to select the most promising projects
5. Deployment of funds into these projects and building tailored reporting frameworks for each to measure progress and the impact in line with the foundation's goals
6. Close cooperation with the social entrepreneurs leading each project to establish an effective monitoring and governance framework and to develop them for scale, maximising impact towards the goal of long term childhood equality

Who we are looking for

1. Given the background of the founder-investors, they are interested in candidates with a proven record of successfully building organisations and value in the private sector, now willing to dedicate these skills and experiences to the aims of this charitable foundation
2. A successful record as a private equity investor, ideally with exposure to impact investing
3. Proven experience in sourcing opportunities and developing these successfully through active portfolio management
4. The entrepreneurial drive to complete the establishment of a new organisation and to grow and lead the team
5. Close alignment with the causes of the foundation and a passion to create long term societal change
6. Strong communication skills, inspirational leadership style, high calibre financial skills
7. As a regulated charity, compensation for this position will need to be in line with other foundation norms and is therefore fundamentally different from the world of private equity. However, for a leader with a keen sense of purpose the rewards of this position are multi-dimensional, including an opportunity to build a major new organisation that will leave a permanent impact on society, as well as working with a unique group of investors