About Impact Investment Exchange (IIX)
Impact Investment Exchange (IIX) is a pioneer in the global impact investing movement, dedicated to reshaping finance for sustainable development with a focus on gender equality and climate action. For over a decade, we've been building the sustainable investing market, from establishing the world's largest crowdfunding platform for impact investing (Impact Partners™), operating award-winning enterprise technical assistance programs, creating innovative financial products such as the Women's Livelihood Bond™ Series, and establishing an Impact Institute and Research & Advisory. Our work has spanned 60 countries, unlocked US$418 million of private-sector capital, positively impacted over 160 million direct and household lives, and avoided over 1.9 million metric tons of carbon. The base of IIX's work is IIX Values™, an impact verification tech solution measuring investments' social and environmental impact to the last mile, amplifying the voices of the underserved. In 2022, we launched the Orange Movement™ and within that created a new asset class, Orange Bond, to unlock $10 billion in capital markets by 2030, impacting 100 million women, girls, and gender minorities. Recognized with numerous accolades, including the Oslo Business for Peace and UN Global Climate Action Award, our efforts are propelled by our team’s 'PREM' values—passion, resilience, equity, and mavericks—bringing meaningful change to Global South communities and the 99%.
For more information about IIX, please visit www.iixglobal.com.
About a career with IIX:
You will join a highly effective team that will provide you with unparalleled hands-on exposure to the Impact Investing and Social Finance space. You thrive in tackling development issues and excel in creating solutions using structured strategies and innovative programs that address the world’s most pressing problems, from food security to inclusive finance to clean energy. You aim to become a global development leader and to make a measureable difference through your work.
When you join IIX, you embark on a rewarding career in which we are heavily invested in your professional development as we will build on your strengths and help you gain new skills with training, coaching, encouragement, and guiding you in the right direction guidance. The skills you obtain and the exposure to the rapidly growing impact investing space will be invaluable as you advance in your career.
To be a successful member of the IIX team, you should exhibit PREM:
• Passionate: Commitment to social finance and impact investing as a path to unlock society’s potential to effect social change is essential for a happy and successful tenure at IIX.
• Resilient: Similar to our enterprises working in emerging markets, our IIX team members have strong mental and emotional fortitude and can recover quickly from difficulties or setbacks. We look for people with an adaptable and positive attitude and a strong sense of self-worth, which enables them to move forward and continue to strive for their goals even in the face of adversity.
• Equitable: At IIX, we manage toward impact maximization and produce measurable and transparent returns – both social and financial. These results strengthen the ecosystem and transform existing realities by helping impact enterprises magnify their impact and scale. We are fair and impartial in our actions and ensure that we make objective and unbiased decisions based on facts and impact.
• Maverick: While IIX is a seasoned stakeholder in the impact enterprise and impact investing space in Asia, we pride ourselves on creating new opportunities. We look for people with an independent and unorthodox approach to thinking and behaving. If you are someone who is non-conformist, innovative, and independent, often going against the grain, does not like following the crowd, and is not afraid to express your own opinions, we want you.
Some of our clients include foundations such as the Rockefeller Foundation and Bank of America-Merrill Lynch Foundation, corporations such as Standard Chartered Bank and KKR, international non-profits such as Oxfam and World Vision, multilateral institutions such as the Asian Development Bank, UN Agencies such as UNDP, and government development agencies such as USAID and SIDA.
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IIX is inviting applications for the full-time Analyst Role with our Innovative Finance team and we are hiring on a rolling basis.
1. Overview
As a new analyst, you will learn about our businesses, develop important relationships, and build career-enhancing skills. This role is open to final-year undergraduate and graduate-level students from any field of study and is ideally suited to those with little or no work experience. While your discipline or major is not important, we’re looking for students with an outstanding record of academic achievement and an interest in changing the world by changing the financial markets.
A financial background is not necessary. Your area or major of concentration is less important to us than your potential. Whether you’ve distinguished yourself in economics or history, the next phase of your career will be shaped by your passion, energy, and vision. We encourage you to apply, provided you come with an open mind to learn, start with basic skills learning, have a strong sense of teamwork, and share a strong commitment and professional drive in connecting the back streets with wall streets.
2. The Analyst Experience
We provide our new analysts with the tools necessary for professional growth and career advancement. As a new analyst, you will learn a great deal about the firm how we do business, and about the whole sector. You will gain the skills and knowledge necessary to support our businesses.
You will quickly become an integral member of the team with your own responsibilities. Regardless of which area or business you join, you will be working directly with internal and external clients side-by-side with the team members in our firm.
Upon joining IIX, you will receive formal training on some basic technical skills followed by department-specific training. You will also receive ongoing training, based on your specific skill needs and interests, to bolster your professional development through learning in the workplace. As a start, you may get hands-on experience working on concepts like “Financial Modelling”, “Innovative Financial Structures”, “Professionalism”, and “Problem-Solving and Presentation Skills”. You need to be open-minded that you will be starting from the basic operational duties and then moving on to more advanced tasks.
Innovative Finance Team: The Innovative Finance team will support the structuring of fixed-income products in innovative finance such as the Women’s Livelihood Bond series™ and Orange Bond Initiative™, while also contributing to IIX's other areas of work. The team performs credit analysis on IEs and MFIs shortlisted as potential borrowers under the various sustainability bond structures and provides financial analysis and full credit reports on selected IEs and MFIs. The young analyst will learn the basic operations of the innovative finance team such as sourcing, call preparations, communications with internal and external stakeholders, and taking minutes to prepare research and pitch decks. Then progress to assist in raising and structuring credit facilities and/or investment capital for IEs and MFIs through participation in the transaction process.
Application Process:
Interested candidates can submit their application at [email protected].Due to the lean structure of the organization, please note all accepted Analysts will be working across teams as needed.
· Start Date: Start on a rolling basis
· Shortlisted candidates will be required to complete selected tests and interview with at least 2 IIX team members.
· All applications must include your latest resume, a cover letter highlighting a clear motivation to work in the Impact Investing space, your university/college transcripts indicating your current GPA score, and a writing sample.
Due to limited openings and an overwhelming number of applications, all applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis and you are highly encouraged to submit your applications as early as possible.
