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Who We Are

Co-Impact is a global organization that supports locally-rooted coalitions in Africa, Asia and Latin America to transform key systems at scale, with a core focus on advancing gender equality and women’s leadership. We bring together funders from around the world to partner with initiatives that are working to improve education, health, and economic opportunity for millions of people by addressing the root causes of social inequities so that systems work better for everyone. For more information, please visit www.co-impact.org and read our Handbook.

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Where You Fit

Together with your team, you will support program partners to develop effective strategies for systems change to advance gender equitable outcomes, women’s leadership, and gender equality at scale, while strengthening organizational capabilities to achieve lasting results; and contributing to improved learning and practice among partners, at Co-Impact, in global development and philanthropy.

Reporting to the Director of Programs for Global and Latin America, you will support the program team across multiple areas, particularly the sourcing, vetting, and recommending of grants, supporting program partners (grantees) and project management during the design phase of their work. You will have a mix of grant management, research, team coordination, project-management, and administrative responsibilities. You may be asked to be an   account lead across different grants and may be the team point person for critical cross-cutting issues.

You will need to demonstrate excellent organizational ability, strong analytical skills and strategic instincts, robust problem-solving skills, excellent interpersonal and communication skills, a high level of personal initiative, and a kind and collaborative spirit and supportive approach, including the ability to work well in a distributed, diverse, deep-thinking, and fast-paced environment. This role will provide a valuable opportunity to gain insight and experience at one of the leading edges of philanthropy and social change, and to learn, stretch and grow, with the potential to take on added responsibility over time.

You bring a commitment to feminist values, gender equality, inclusion, and justice, and to enduring systems change at scale, as well as an abiding curiosity and humility and desire to learn. You are motivated by looking for root causes, seeking justice and solving social problems at the systems level and at scale.

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The Role

As part of Co-Impact team, core responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

• Conducting research and landscape analyses to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities in the field and stay informed on relevant updates that can affect Co-Impact’s investment approach and strategy globally and in Latin America.
• Leads due diligence processes for potential program partners, including conducting calls, reviewing documents, and providing recommendations.
• Oversees the provision of support to program partners throughout the project lifecycle, including design workshops, site visits, and regular check-ins.
• Provide strategic guidance and operational support to existing and new program partners, building capacity through ad-hoc check-ins, strategic or operational support, and other portfolio capacity building activities.
• Collaborate with other program managers to ensure alignment and coordination of  work across the regions.
• Writes recommendation memos, conducts due diligence calls, reviews documents  and reports, assists program partners in grant implementation, conducts site visits and organizes regular check-ins with them.
• Design and facilitate events, convenings, and foster learning and collaboration that enable partners and peers in the field to learn together.
• Supporting the Associate Director and  Director, Programs and the broader Program team as needed, as well as participating in special projects as they arise.

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Qualifications and Experience

• At least 5+ years of relevant professional experience working to advancing gender equality (with an intersectional lens) and improving government (and at times market) systems in education, health, economic opportunity, and/or women’s leadership.
• Significant experience working directly with senior-level staff.
• Track record of increasing responsibility.
• At least first university degree or equivalent.
• Fluency in English and Spanish or Portuguese required (fluency in both is a plus).
• Experience in grantmaking, lived experience and knowledge of Latin American context, and linkages to feminist/women’s rights networks strongly preferred.

Required Skills

• Strategic Acumen: Ability to spot high-potential opportunities and facilitate the design of strategic approaches backed by evidence informed analysis.
• Sound analysis and judgment: Ability to listen well, integrating gender analysis, evidence, and strong logical analysis, while seeing perspectives from different sides, resulting in strong recommendations and judgements based on values and principles balancing data, experience, and risk.
• Working with People: Experience contributing to and managing collaborative teams to work productively, effectively, and inclusively towards shared goals.
• Managing Action with Purpose and Values: Ability to work with colleagues and get things done in accordance with core purpose and values.
• Process Management and Results Orientation: Strong project management skills, deadline management, sense of responsibility and accountability, the ability to manage multiple responsibilities, adjust and adapt along the way.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Great at making and fostering relationships inside and outside the organization, keen intercultural appreciation, inclusive style, comfortable around senior leaders, can represent Co-Impact well.
• Financial understanding: Basic familiarity with the core elements of an organization’s financial model, financial statements, strategic financial analysis/ projections, and budgeting.
• Learning Orientation: Humble and intellectually curious; seek and work with evidence, demonstrated openness to new ideas and a diversity of perspectives; unafraid to admit and learn from failure.
• Strong Moral Compass: Impeccable personal ethics and integrity, kind and caring.
• Proficiency with core business tools: Strong proficiency in Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Communications: Exceptional ability to write and communicate ideas concisely and with clarity. Excellent oral communication skills, including the ability to work effectively in a multicultural environment.
• Global Flexibility: Given the global nature of organization working across time zones, a willingness to be flexible with working hours, work remotely and periodically undertake international travel.
• Perspective: Sense of humor and ability not to take oneself too seriously.

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Benefits

Co-Impact’s compensation philosophy is guided by the following three principles:

• Equity and Fairness: Our approach to compensation and benefits are designed to ensure that our global team is treated equitably regardless of location and without regard to gender, race, or nationality.
• Transparency: We want Co-Impact’s employees to understand our salary structure and to feel confident that they are paid equitably, and potential job applicants to have an understanding of how the role for which they are applying will be compensated.
• Accountability: As stewards of the philanthropic resources entrusted to us so that we can support our program partners, we are accountable to our donors and our board, to our staff, and to the general public.

In accordance with that philosophy, we include the salary for each position in our job postings; to ensure equity within the organization and for all candidates, we will not negotiate salary or benefits. This position is full-time. The annual salary will be $112,000 (where applicable, it may be paid in local currency equivalent) plus a generous benefits package, including a significant allowance for paid time off.

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Application Details

Please apply online by submitting a resume and a one-page cover letter by Friday, December 20th, 2024. In your cover letter, confirm that you are authorized to live and work in Brazil or Mexico. (Please note that Co-Impact cannot cover relocation costs. If you are authorized to live in either country but are not currently based there, you will need to cover any relocation expenses.)

As we are a small team, we regret that we can only respond to applicants selected for an interview and we are unable to participate in informational calls prior to interviews. Thank you for your understanding.

We will begin reviewing applications after the deadline and may close earlier if we receive a strong pool of candidates. Shortlisted candidates can expect to hear from the recruitment team in January 2025.

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