Head of Impact Management - Toronto, Canada - Rally Assets

Rally Assets
Rally Assets
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Toronto, Canada

4 weeks ago

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Making an impact. It's what you're passionate about when it comes to the investing sector. You know that impact investing is a way to address social and environmental justice. After years of working for someone, you are ready to
lead the evolution of impact methodology and reporting. You want to achieve new successes by ensuring your frameworks and processes are not only exemplary, but they are also standard-setting and standards-aligned.


Rally Assets' Head of Impact Management will provide leadership across Rally teams regarding impact assessment of client portfolios, which are multi-asset but commonly focused on private investments.

An external and internal impact ambassador and field builder, the Head of Impact Management helps drive impact measurement and management improvements across the impact investing sector in Canada.


PRIMARY DUTIES

Impact Framework Builder

  • Serve as a key architect for the refinement and expansion of Rally's impact methodology across the investment process from screening to due diligence to postinvestment measurement. Refinement and enhancement will be in line with current and emerging impact standards
  • Direct and oversee the collection of qualitative and quantitative impact data
  • Work closely with the Head of Reporting and Communications to ensure assessment processes result in reports that clearly communicate a fulsome picture of the impact
  • Search out software to enhance our methodology and enable us to scale our work

Impact Management Field Builder

  • Collaborate with partners and allies within the wider field to improve, standardize and increase the use of impact measurement practices in this country
  • Represent Rally externally at forums and events regarding impact measurement and management
  • Lead engagement with impact investing industry groups and other stakeholders
  • Support efforts around impact management education to fund managers, financial intermediaries, and social purpose organizations
  • Build out Rally's internal impact measurement capabilities
  • Oversee and deliver Rally's own impact selfassessment

QUALIFICATIONS

On your resume, we ask that you demonstrate the following:

  • At least 8 years of relevant professional leadership experience that includes:
  • Designing, testing, and refining impact measurement, management, or evaluation approaches, preferably with the investment sector
  • Utilizing impact measurement tools, frameworks, and standards used within the investment sector, such as Impact Management Norms, the Common Approach Data Standard, UN Sustainable Development Goals, IRIS+, Operating Principles for Impact Management, B Impact Assessment, UNDRIP and UNPRI
  • Developing impact frameworks
  • Successfully designing, implementing, and leading complex, multifaceted, multipartner projects, including securing and managing large supplier relationships
  • The databases you have used in the past and managed
  • Your experience with project management
  • You are legally able to work in Canada

During the interview we will be reviewing, assessing, and covering the following:

  • Your passion and interest in impact investing
  • Your comfort working in a fastpaced, evolving, and selfdirected work environment
  • Your belief in our company values of honesty, generosity, empathy, curiosity, and integrity
  • Your commitment to contributing to a team's success
  • Your ability to describe systems thinking and theories of change
  • Your experience with impact measurement across all asset classes, particularly private investments
  • Your opinion on the Canadian impact investing field and products, particularly private investments
  • Your experience supporting the large environmental and equity challenges impact investing aims to help solve
  • Your analytical, evaluation design, and methodological skills
  • Your ability to design approaches to make data collection on outcomes easier and better
  • Your ability to translate complex ideas and make them accessible to nonspecialist audiences
  • Strong communications skills, including public communication skills

WORKING AT RALLY ASSETS

  • You'll have a job that is in accordance with your values and will be able to contribute on a daily basis to make the world better.
  • Staff development is guided by individuals' interests and skills rather than simply the official job description.
  • You get to work alongside a caring team, we respect that staff have busy personal lives and we strive to support everyone to have a good worklife balance.
  • We support the welfare of team members through health and wellness benefits and generous holiday time.
  • We offer opportunities for professional development
  • There is an opportunity for ownership participation through a stock option plan
  • Your compensation will consist of both a base salary and a performance bonus
  • Not in Toronto? Not a problem. While most of the Rally team lives in Toronto, we appreciate there are many other wonderful town
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