Associate/Senior Associate, Research & Adviosry - Bangladesh

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 through capital mobilization and data-based solutions. For over a decade and a half, 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, (6 listed bonds and growing) and establishing an Impact Institute and Research & Advisory. While we are very deep with our work in Asia, the Pacific, and Africa, our work spans 60 countries globally where we have mobilized close to $500 million of private-sector capital, positively impacted over 160 million direct and household lives, avoided over 1.9 million metric tons of carbon, and have collected over 90,000+ data points on sustainable micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs). 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, along with global partners, launched the Orange Movement™ and, within that, created a new asset class, Orange Bonds, to demonstrate the intersectionality of gender equality and climate action and unlock $10 billion in capital markets by 2030, impacting 100 million women, girls, and gender minorities and making them a key player in climate mitigation and adaptation efforts. In 2024, we unveiled our global data hub, IIX Intelligence™, which aggregates, evaluates, and benchmarks data from sustainable MSMEs, offering unparalleled insights into gender diversity, climate action, ESG performance, and community risk management. IIX Intelligence demonstrates with data the importance of MSMEs as a backbone of sustainable development. Numerous accolades, including the Oslo Business for Peace Award and the UN Global Climate Action Award, have recognized our efforts. Our team’s 'PREM' values—passion, resilience, equity, and mavericks—propel our efforts, bringing meaningful change to Global South communities and the 99%.
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About a career with IIX:

You will join a highly effective team that provides you with an un-paralleled hands-on exposure to the Impact Investing and Social Finance space. You will thrive in applying finance skills to tackle development issues and excel in creating solutions using structured strategies and innovative programs that address and solve the world’s most pressing problems, from food security to inclusive finance to clean energy. You will become a global development leader who has a passion for international development and to get involved in work that makes a difference.

When you join IIX, you embark on a rewarding career where 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. It is a value addition to advance your career, providing you invaluable exposure to the rapidly growing impact investing space. 

About a career with IIX:
You will join a highly effective team that provides 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 unprecedented programs that address and solve the world’s most pressing problems, from food security to inclusive finance to clean energy. You aim to become a global development leader who has a passion for international development and to get involved in work that makes a difference.
When you join IIX, you embark on a rewarding career where 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. It is a valuable addition to advance your career, providing you invaluable exposure to the rapidly growing impact investing space.
You WANT to instigate change.
Thus, as a successful team member, you should be a 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.
Our clients and partners span the spectrum of public and private sector including 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 agencies such as USAID and SIDA.

About the role:

IIX seeks an Associate/Senior Associate for its Research and Advisory (R&A) Team. We are looking for a communicator, a thinker and a doer who naturally builds relationships that lead to results. You will be able to transition seamlessly from thinking strategically about new business relationships (with donors/clients/investors/INGOs) to managing the relationships and executing new pilot initiatives. We have a small and energetic team, and this is a roll-up-your-sleeves kind of role. We want someone who first and foremost has a positive attitude and is passionate about growing the space through IIX’s work. In addition, she/he is creative, a problem solver, who knows how to push the envelope, and is an incredibly fast learner.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conduct market ecosystem research to further gender lens investing in the Global South

-Research new and emerging thematic and impact investment trends

-Envision and suggest areas of strategic collaboration with ecosystem partners

-Develop outreach materials such as concept notes and pitch decks

• Pursuit of strategic, organization-wide business development initiatives

-Source, prepare and submit requests for proposal (RFPs) and expressions of interest (EOIs) from global and regional tendering organizations.

-Prepare external marketing and strategic business development materials

• Collaborate to effectively execute client engagements

-Collaborate with colleagues from other teams on inter-department ongoing project management and strategic pursuits

-You’ll be expected to mentor and review the work of analysts and interns in fulfilling the agreed scope of work with clients and coordinate with other departments in ensuring project timeline compliance

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Economics/Development Economics, Business Management, International Relations, Finance or related disciplines; a graduate degree in the aforementioned disciplines is a big plus

• At least 3-4 years of combined experience in research, consulting, or management consulting work.

• Outstanding presentation and communication skills, with a demonstrated ability to present complex ideas and voluminous pieces of information before internal and external stakeholders in an insightful and structured manner; fluency in English is a must

• Extensive experience in using MS Office applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint)

• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work well with a diverse group of stakeholders across national boundaries, from public bodies and policy makers to social entrepreneurs to large, international private corporations

• Highly-entrepreneurial mindset: a self-starter able to make sense of and comfortable working in a dynamic, relatively flat and non-hierarchical environment, comfortable with remote working and liaising with a Pan Asia team.

• Desire to work in a collaborative, high-performing team environment, able to build relationships across teams; must be a team player who is self-motivated and has a positive attitude towards work

• Culturally sensitive; can work in a highly multicultural environment

• Has a passion towards finding innovative, market-based solutions to the world’s most pressing development challenges, with a view towards maximizing social and environmental impact while ensuring financial sustainability

Additional Desired Qualifications:

• Past experience working at/working with international and regional development/financial/aid organizations, as well as highly reputable international management consulting firms (MBB/Big 4 auditing firms), is a big plus

• Professional or academic experience with IIX sector specializations, namely, inclusive finance, renewable energy, technology access, healthcare, education, water and waste management, sustainable agriculture

• Fluency in one or more international/regional languages

• Experience of living or extensive travel in developing countries; field experience in the region working with impact enterprises, startups or international NGOs is a big plus

• Banking and private sector consulting experience

• Comfortable working remotely from India, while liaising with a Singapore and Pan Asia team. 

Location: Remotely based in Bangladesh

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted by IIX Talent Acquisition team. Your personal data maybe collected but it will be used for recruitment purposes only.

"IIX is an equal opportunity employer"