Associate, Investment Strategy

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Equality Fund - Fonds Égalité

Remote (local)
  • Career category: Fundraising/ Grant management
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: $87,000 CAD-$116,000 CAD / yearly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 08/06/2025
  • Location: North and Central America
Movement building
ABOUT THE EQUALITY FUND

The Equality Fund is transforming the way that resources—and power—flow into the hands of women, girls and gender expansive people worldwide. Designed by feminists for feminists, it is a model for sustainably resourcing feminist movements everywhere, through global grantmaking, gender-lens investing, policy advocacy, and feminist philanthropy. Launched in 2019, the Equality Fund has activated $100 million to date which flows to more than 1,000 organizations working across 100 countries.

SCOPE & RESPONSIBILITIES    
Investment strategy development, product research, discovery and execution
  • Contributes to short, medium and long-term planning for EF’s  investment activities and supports the execution of EF’s investment strategy
  • Contributes to the development and launch of new investment products alongside asset management partners, across asset classes including public equities, fixed income, private equity and private credit
  • Performs market analysis and research on investment strategies and gender lens investment products 

Relationship and field building
  • Stewards external relationships and key investment partners including investment managers, EF Board of Directors, Investment Committees and external parties
  • Contributes to field building in gender lens investing and promotion of EF’s GLI Criteria through participation in external events, webinars and communities of practice
  • Supports VP Investment Strategy with capital mobilization and investment fundraising by engaging with external investors and funders 

Impact measurement and analysis
  • Measures, monitors and tracks key performance indicators and impact
  • Researches and develops impact measurement methodologies to communicate the impact and results of EF’s investment activities
  • Synthesizes information from multiple inputs, maps and analyzes alternatives and future paths as EF builds out its investment processes, portfolio, products,  services and activities

Planning and reporting
  • Leads the investment team’s annual planning and reporting process 
  • Lead the Global Affairs Canada annual reporting process for the investment team

Governance
  • Develops activity summaries to support quarterly Board meeting investment related agenda items
  • Assists in the preparation of Investment Committee reports and documents for Board of director meetings and materials packages

QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES 
  • Undergraduate degree in business and/or finance, or related field
  • 3+ years work experience in asset management, fund/investment management, or endowment management
  • Strong understanding of public and private securities/investments
  • Knowledge of impact investing and/or gender-lens investing
  • Strong analytical skills with proficiency in financial modelling and impact analysis 
  • Experience stewarding senior level external stakeholder relationships
  • Strategic thinker with the ability to identify and maximize strategic openings and opportunities
  • Excellent communication (written, verbal, and presentation) and interpersonal skills; ability to translate technical investment language into simplified language
  • Ability to thrive in a complex and dynamic environment and to visualize business operations and activities that don't exist yet  
  • Bilingual French/English is an asset but not required

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