Senior Impact Investment Officer, Madrid

New Retained Mandate: Senior Impact Investment Officer, Madrid

We are delighted to work on an important new role with one of our favourite Impact Investment clients, looking to talk with people with shared values and transferable Impact Investment skills.

The firm is dedicated to achieving positive impact and profit with purpose: catalysing socio-economic development in emerging markets communities that most benefit, while driving financial returns for investors.

The prime investee industries are:

Financial Institutions: Climate Finance and Green Financing:

• Microfinance and Financial Inclusion - opening up access for smallholders and small businesses through debt and/or equity investments.
• Direct debt and/or equity investments in climate solutions providers, supplemented and enhanced with technical assistance and help across the business.

The geographic footprint is Emerging Markets, the Global South, and specifically Latin America and India.

This will be an outstanding opportunity to build on your existing fundamental technical and financial analysis and investing experience working in a hugely respected, collegiate, impact-driven investment team.

Given the clear strategic mission, you'll be empowered to put the capital to work to effect real systemic change, doing brave, meaningful investments that others perhaps can't or won't do.

We are keen to talk with talented people with the following experience and attributes, and just as keen to explore if you feel you have transferable skills that may not obviously 'tick the boxes' at first glance.

The 2 most important qualities that are likely to lead to mutual fulfilment are:

• a real passion for positive impact
• a really good person

Do you have experience in:

• Financial Institutions: Climate Finance and Green Financing: Microfinance and Financial Inclusion; and/or
• Climate Tech
• relevant professional experience including at least 6-10++ years of directly relevant work
• A-Z Deal Experience from sourcing/origination, through portfolio management, to exits
• in-depth experience of financial modeling, analysis, and due diligence
• experience or an interest in hands-on, high touch direct investments where you'll work directly with management to ensure and amplify positive impact
• strategic insight: to help formulate and drive the LATAM investment strategy
• a passion for positively impacting the lives and livelihoods of those most in need
• a will to build relationships in a nurturing, mentoring, inclusive team and firm
• Please Note: as this will be Madrid based, and working across LATAM, English and Spanish Native/full fluency is a requirement

Do you want to work where:

• a wonderful diverse team shares your qualities and missions
• you can make a real difference
• you can express your technical skills, strategic insights, and intellectual curiosity to achieve a truly positive impact

If you are currently looking, or just opportunistically interested in an outstanding opportunity and think this could be the one for you, please reach out and apply in strictest mutual confidence.

We want to help you to realise your ambitions and reach your fullest potential.

I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you and Warmest Regards, Duncan.

Please note that we usually receive a very large volume of interest, and can only respond quickly to people with a close mutual fit for this precise opportunity. We will be delighted to keep in touch and let you know about other opportunities that might be appropriate for you in future.

We are the leading global specialist Impact Investment Headhunter and are always focused on making positive social, economic, and environmental impact.

We and our clients champion diversity and inclusion. We are stronger and happier because of this and it’s the right thing to do. It is our responsibility and privilege to help talented, value-driven people thrive. Talent is evenly distributed throughout the world. Opportunity is not yet - and we are working to be part of the solution. We are welcoming, respectful, and supportive in all that we do and in our community.