About a career with IIX:
You will join a highly effective team that will provide you with an
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 are able to 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.
About the role:
As VP of Strategic Initiatives, you will be responsible for identifying
opportunities, working on strategies, and developing project and program proposals. You will also be recommending solutions, implementing project plans, fostering external partnerships, and working on initiatives to meet the objectives and priorities of the company. The position is responsible for project management; from planning to implementation and monitoring of partnership projects, to ensure the objectives of the Company will be carried out efficiently and effectively. The position will collaborate across numerous departments of IIX.
The broad areas of work will include:
• Grow and develop strategic initiatives and get involved in
organization-wide operational efforts such as partnership development;
• Support the CEO in developing proposals for product development and advisory assignments;
• Cultivate and close relationships with individual partners to enhance
IIX’s visibility, access, and influence, while developing a broader platform for further pipeline building;
• Create and direct new business opportunities;
• Develop an understanding of IIX’s strategy and preferred approach for partnerships and program fundraising;
• Help and assist the CEO in identifying new markets and identifying
potential growth opportunities within existing and new markets;
• Develop tactical action plans with assigned projects to address key
business needs, measure and track results in line with the corporate
strategy;
• Participate in meetings with the CEO together with high-level
stakeholders and partners;
• Help and assist the CEO in creating business plans (for new business
ideas) and review data to monitor progress across their business
initiatives; and
• Any other duties as determined by the CEO and COO.
