Impact-First Investing Enablement Manager

Global Impact Investing Network; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 154,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work environment

Job summary

Climate Lead, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, seeks a Manager, Impact-First Investing to lead project management and cross-functional content integration as the IFI program scales. You will collaborate with Global Climate Strategies, Communications, and Advisory to build tools, templates, and workflows and to advance donor and investor engagements.

The role emphasizes strategic proxy work, executive briefing materials, and process improvements, with hybrid work in SF and travel.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in project management, investing, operations, or knowledge management, ideally within impact investing, fundraising, and/or catalytic finance roles.
• Hands-on experience helping build or scale a climate fund, impact investing platform, or venture practice, including designing and embedding operational frameworks, deal tools, and best practice guides for team execution.
• Demonstrated ability to streamline workflows, build scalable toolkits, and drive adoption of standardized operational tools and best practices.
• Highly skilled communicator with experience crafting tailored, high-impact documentation for varied audiences, from technical teams to executives.
• Familiarity with climate deal sourcing and pipeline evaluation, translating complex deal structures into investor communications.
• Skilled with project management & collaboration tools (e.g., Asana, Google Workspace).
• Familiarity with Salesforce (or similar CRM) is a strong plus.
• Interest in climate action and catalytic investments to drive systemic change.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Global Climate Strategies to extract climate solution details, investment theses, and deal insights, and package them into investor-facing products.
• Co-develop, evolve, and curate the IFI toolkit, frameworks, and knowledge hub for relationship managers.
• Capture and synthesize successful impact investing strategies into scalable templates, guides, and workflows.
• Identify collaboration opportunities across Advisory Team and implement streamlined tools and processes to increase efficiency.
• Support onboarding and continuous learning by training relationship managers on IFI tools and market-facing resources.

Skills

Project management

Investing

Operations

Knowledge management

Communication

Climate investing

Tooling adoption

CRM (Salesforce)

Tools

Asana

Google Workspace

Salesforce

Job description

Climate Lead, headquartered in San Francisco, CA, seeks a Manager, Impact-First Investing to lead project management and cross-functional content integration as the IFI program scales. You will collaborate with Global Climate Strategies, Communications, and Advisory to build tools, templates, and workflows and to advance donor and investor engagements.

The role emphasizes strategic proxy work, executive briefing materials, and process improvements, with hybrid work in SF and travel.