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Responsibilities or duties

The candidate will be responsible for delivering effective and high-quality impact management. She or he will report to the respective Imbedded Development Impact Director within the I&C sector . You will play an active role in providing development impact inputs throughout the deal cycle, including strategy development, investment process, portfolio management and responsible exits, in order to deepen the impact on people and planet. Specific responsibilities will be driven by the candidate’s level of experience, priorities, and the needs of the team at the time, but are expected to include the following:

• Delivering impact management for the relevant part of the investment portfolio:
• Assessing development impact as part of origination and due diligence process. Working seamlessly with investment team colleagues to inform the investment decision and define the impact objectives and appropriately escalating issues.
• Developing a high-quality development impact dashboard and Impact Score for each investment based on the Impact Management Project’s consensus which will involve desk research, facilitating discussions, due diligence and managing external suppliers where necessary. Liaise with other Impact Group teams (e.g. E&S, Climate Finance and Gender & Diversity etc) during the investment process where relevant.
• Defining the monitoring plan for the investments and post investment, collecting the impact metrics to track actual impact of investments, ensuring analysis is timely and high quality.
• Assessing how investments are performing against their initial development objectives, determining when course corrections are required and completing exit reviews, feeding back learnings to the organisation.
• Actively managing investments to enhance the impact by participating in the design and implementation of initiatives and partnerships.
• Developing and delivering strategies for the sector ensuring consistency with BII wide strategies and frameworks.
• Developing sector framework and tools (e.g. benchmarks) ensuring consistency with BII wide strategies and frameworks.
• Relationship, and regional representation
• Contact point for the I&C Sector team, attending and representing development impact in relevant meetings internally. Ensuring regional priorities and context are appropriately reflected in our assessments and investment decision-making
• Represent BII externally at events and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders in the private sector development community regionally,
• (Co-)lead engagement with regional investees on impact management activities across respective sector teams.
• Liaise with investment and relevant Impact Group teams (e.g. ESG, Climate Change and Gender/Diversity) throughout the investment process.
• Manage I&C sector-specific relationships including with experts, peers and suppliers.
• Support and contribute to the wider Development Impact team:
• Contribute to the continual development of BII’s impact management framework ensuring tools, systems, policies and capabilities remain world class.
• Support other team members to ensure all activities within the sector are consistent with sector approach.
• Developing the overall capability and team effectiveness of the Development Impact team and sharing learnings within the team, the broader Impact Group and the organisation.

Qualifications or requirements (e.g., education, skills)

Experience needed

Prior work experience in a relevant field, preferably as an impact manager within an investment setting or, with a good grounding in development impact assessment with a commercial mindset. Strong academic credentials. Preferably a Master’s degree in economics, Development Economics or equivalent analytical post graduate degree. Work experience in developing countries, preferably in Africa and in the infrastructure and climate space.

• Delivering impact management for the relevant part of the investment portfolio:
• Assessing development impact as part of origination and due diligence process. Working seamlessly with investment team colleagues to inform the investment decision and define the impact objectives and appropriately escalating issues.
• Developing a high-quality development impact dashboard and Impact Score for each investment based on the Impact Management Project’s consensus which will involve desk research, facilitating discussions, due diligence and managing external suppliers where necessary. Liaise with other Impact Group teams (e.g. E&S, Climate Finance and Gender & Diversity etc) during the investment process where relevant.
• Defining the monitoring plan for the investments and post investment, collecting the impact metrics to track actual impact of investments, ensuring analysis is timely and high quality.
• Assessing how investments are performing against their initial development objectives, determining when course corrections are required and completing exit reviews, feeding back learnings to the organisation.
• Actively managing investments to enhance the impact by participating in the design and implementation of initiatives and partnerships.
• Developing and delivering strategies for the sector ensuring consistency with BII wide strategies and frameworks.
• Developing sector framework and tools (e.g. benchmarks) ensuring consistency with BII wide strategies and frameworks.
• Relationship, and regional representation
• Contact point for the I&C Sector team, attending and representing development impact in relevant meetings internally. Ensuring regional priorities and context are appropriately reflected in our assessments and investment decision-making
• Represent BII externally at events and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders in the private sector development community regionally,
• (Co-)lead engagement with regional investees on impact management activities across respective sector teams.
• Liaise with investment and relevant Impact Group teams (e.g. ESG, Climate Change and Gender/Diversity) throughout the investment process.
• Manage I&C sector-specific relationships including with experts, peers and suppliers.
• Support and contribute to the wider Development Impact team:
• Contribute to the continual development of BII’s impact management framework ensuring tools, systems, policies and capabilities remain world class.
• Support other team members to ensure all activities within the sector are consistent with sector approach.
• Developing the overall capability and team effectiveness of the Development Impact team and sharing learnings within the team, the broader Impact Group and the organisation.

• Impact management
• Development impact assessment
• Commercial mindset
• Desk research
• Facilitating discussions
• Due diligence
• Managing external suppliers
• Monitoring plan development
• Impact metrics collection and analysis
• Investment performance assessment
• Course correction determination
• Exit reviews
• Initiative and partnership design/implementation
• Strategy development
• Sector framework and tool development
• Relationship management
• Regional representation
• Stakeholder engagement
• Team development
• Capability building

• Prior work experience in a relevant field, preferably as an impact manager within an investment setting or, with a good grounding in development impact assessment with a commercial mindset.
• Strong academic credentials.
• Preferably a Master’s degree in economics, Development Economics or equivalent analytical post graduate degree.
• Work experience in developing countries, preferably in Africa and in the infrastructure and climate space.