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Impact Experience Institute Associate

About Us
Impact Experience (IE) builds lasting relationships between investors, philanthropists, innovators, entrepreneurs, and community leaders — linking vision with action and directing investment to solve society’s greatest challenges. Impact Experience has a unique approach to addressing the critical issues of structural racism and incorporates a variety of powerful tools to tackle prejudice by confronting and engaging with the historical and ongoing realities of inequality and racial justice. We apply insights from and combine elements of the disciplines of systems transformation and organizational development, design thinking, and somatic psychology and experiential learning curricula that builds bridges between organizations and among people. In doing so, we aim to increase awareness about the persistent nature of structural racism and the imperative to overcome it. Impact Experience is led by Jenna Nicholas who has a background working with leading impact investors and foundations through her work with the Calvert Funds, the World Bank and building a coalition of foundations divesting from fossil fuels and investing in new economy solutions.

Summary of The Role
This is a special opportunity for an individual with an interest in impact investing and community-based change.

Reporting to the COO, the Impact Experience Associate will play a pivotal role in shaping the growth and impact of our fast-growing, impact-oriented organization dedicated to the promise of a more equitable, sustainable, and prosperous world. Candidates should have an interest in the impact investing industry and a passion for building innovative solutions that create both financial value and meaningful social and environmental impact, as well as communicating financial value and meaningful social and environmental impact to external stakeholders. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented and can help support ongoing engagement programming, in particular, helping to put together communications and externally facing materials. Impact Experience has partnered with lead impact funders – both investors and philanthropists, and community leaders.

This role provides the opportunity to support programming that will spark critical dialogue and co-creation of solutions that bring hope and opportunity to issues, places, and people that have historically been overlooked. You will have the opportunity to work directly with the executive and senior-level team members, as well as the partners of Impact Experience.

Qualifications:

Thrives in entrepreneurial environments
Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively to all levels of the organization and to the larger community
High attention to detail
Knowledge of impact investing, climate justice, health equity and/or philanthropy preferred
Some background in racial justice, diversity, equity, and inclusion work preferred
Demonstrated ability to exercise initiative
Ability to use and learn new software, including Hubspot, Asana, and other communication and CRM platforms
Proficiency in G Suite (Docs, Sheets, Presentation)
Comfort working with a hybrid team
Event planning experience
Minimum 3 years of work experience, no maximum - we welcome seasoned professionals too!
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent

Responsibilities:

Managing the ongoing implementation of products and offerings over time
Supporting the preparation, executions, and follow-up of our virtual and in-person convenings
Performing research and analysis, including literature reviews, summaries of findings, participation in expert interviews, etc.
Developing client materials, including proposals, presentations, and reports
Working in collaboration with the rest of the team to deliver Impact Experience engagements.

Competitive pay commensurate with experience. Salary range: $75,000 – $80,000 annually

To apply, please email your resume and cover letter to hello@impact-experience.com

Business Climate Finance Initiative – Associate

About the Business Climate Finance Initiative

The objectives of the Business Climate Finance Initiative are to both decarbonize corporate bank accounts and employee retirement plans, starting with a group of leading U.S. companies. This approach is modeled after the success of REBA (now CEBA), which has convened companies to procure 100% renewable energy. The goals of this effort include moving capital towards climate friendly lending at minority depository institutions, credit unions, B Corp banks, and other climate friendly lenders, as well as towards climate friendly retirement investment funds. Using a JEDI lens, the initiative is action oriented and focused on solutions development.

Summary of the Role

This is a special opportunity for an individual to help companies with the decarbonization of bank deposits and retirement accounts. This will involve working with leading companies to support them in aligning their banking solutions and retirement accounts and solutions with their climate commitments. Developing tools, serving as a connector, and working with various stakeholders in the banking solutions and defined contribution supply chain is imperative. In addition, this person will collaborate with corporations to measure their full scope 3, category 15 emissions and report these emissions, including finances and investments, and encourage other companies to measure and report carbon emissions resulting from their financial supply chain.

Responsibilities:

The individual in this role must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment, executing quickly on a range of responsibilities. The ideal candidate has a curious, optimistic and compassionate mindset, an entrepreneurial and resourceful approach to problem-solving, a passion for social impact, and a spirit of humility in engaging with all stakeholders. Furthermore, the ideal candidate is detail-oriented and has a self-driven mindset and is persistent in following up and ensuring the highest level of professionalism. This role will include developing collateral and practical, actionable materials to educate and support banking and retirement benefit teams at nonfinancial US companies. Will keep track of total assets shifted within corporations within scope 3, category 15, including developing case studies that quickly convey low hanging fruit opportunities for urgently aligning banking and retirement accounts with climate action. Will also research, analyze, and synthesize product opportunities (community development finance institutions, minority deposit institutions, credit unions, mutual funds, target date funds, etc.) for climate impact and design new approaches with the asset management community using the results of a needs assessment from the non-financial companies.

Skills and Qualifications: Functional Expertise

Thrives in entrepreneurial environments
Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively to all levels of the organization and to the larger community
High attention to detail
Knowledge of banking systems, retirement systems, climate justice, impact investing and corporate partnerships
Experience with racial justice, diversity, equity and inclusion work preferred
Demonstrated ability to exercise initiative
Ability to use new software, including Zoom and other communication platforms
Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Comfort working with a virtual team
Candidate would ideally have some event planning experience
Minimum 3 years of work experience, no maximum - we welcome seasoned professionals
Ideal background in banking or retirement systems
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
MBA or equivalent preferred

Compensation: Between $75,000 - $80,000 Application deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis

To apply, please email your resume and cover letter to hello@impact-experience.com

Business Climate Finance – Banking Lead

About the Business Climate Finance

The objectives of the Business Climate Finance are to both decarbonize corporate bank accounts and employee retirement plans, starting with a group of leading U.S. companies. This approach is modeled after the success of REBA (now CEBA), which has convened companies to procure 100% renewable energy. The goals of this effort include moving capital towards climate friendly lending at minority depository institutions, credit unions, B Corp banks, and other climate-friendly lenders, as well as towards climate friendly retirement investment funds. Using a JEDI lens, the initiative is action oriented and focused on solutions development.

Summary of the Role

This is a special opportunity for an individual to help companies with the decarbonization of corporate cash. This will involve working with leading companies to support them in aligning their cash deposits and bank accounts with their climate commitments. Developing tools, serving as a connector, and working with various stakeholders in the bank savings and lending supply chain is imperative. In addition, this person will collaborate with corporations to measure their full scope 3, category 15 emissions and report these emissions, including finances and investments, and encourage other companies to measure and report carbon emissions resulting from their financial supply chain.

Responsibilities:
The individual in this role must be comfortable working in a fast-paced, changing environment, executing quickly on a range of responsibilities. The ideal candidate has a curious, optimistic and compassionate mindset, an entrepreneurial and resourceful approach to problem-solving, a passion for social impact, and a spirit of humility in engaging with all stakeholders. Furthermore, the ideal candidate is detail-oriented and has a self-driven mindset and is persistent in following up and ensuring the highest level of professionalism. This role will include developing collateral and practical, actionable materials to educate and support treasury teams at non-financial US companies. Will keep track of total assets shifted within corporations within scope 3, category
15, including developing case studies that quickly convey low hanging fruit opportunities for urgently aligning treasury accounts with climate action. Will also research, analyze, and

synthesize cash deposit opportunities for climate impact and design new approaches with the banking community using the results of a needs assessment from the non-financial companies.

Skills and Qualifications:

Banking Expertise

Minimum 3 years of work experience in a depository institution
Experience working in the Treasury department of a non-financial company a plus
Experience working for a financial regulator a plus
Strong network of climate-friendly lenders, including banks, credit unions, and fintech companies

Functional Skills

Thrives in entrepreneurial environments
Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively to all levels of the organization and to the larger community
High attention to detail
Knowledge of retirement systems, climate justice, impact investing and corporate partnerships
Experience with racial justice, diversity, equity and inclusion work preferred
Demonstrated ability to exercise initiative
Ability to use new software, including Zoom and other communication platforms
Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
Comfort working with a virtual team
Candidate would ideally have some event planning experience
Minimum 3 years of work experience, no maximum - we welcome seasoned professionals
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
MBA or equivalent preferred

Compensation: Between $120,000 and $150 ,000

Application deadline: Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis

To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to hello@impact-experience.com .

Equal Opportunity Employer

Impact Experience Institute is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.