Impact & Gender Manger Job Persistent Energy

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Key Responsibilities:

Impact and Data Management

• Oversee the management and quarterly collection of impact data, including gender data, ensure that company data is received, quality assured, and accurately reported. Manage Internal Impact reporting systems and compile this data for easy reporting to investors.
• Ensure that Impact calculations methodologies are standardised within the portfolio and they are being used in the DD process as well as impact reporting to understand and assess company level targets and progress in achieving impact targets.
• Policies and organisational training – Regularly review and update our Impact Framework and Gender policies, ensuring they reflect any changes in Persistent’s approach and ensure the team is up-to-date on policy adherence.
• Impact assessment and DD – Establishing/defining the baselines and impact data required from potential investee companies, undertaking impact and gender related assessment and DD for prospective investee companies and recommend actions/ next steps in the investment process.
• Investment Management and Venture Building – Designing Impact and gender reporting training and capacity building for portfolio companies and venture building.
• Impact Reporting (Investors) – Designing and implementing an efficient Impact and gender reporting process, and preparing reports to investors on a quarterly and annual basis.
• Impact Reporting (Portfolio) – Ensuring efficient impact and gender reporting from the Portfolio and reviewing/following up on requisite reports.
• Impact studies and evaluations (Portfolio and Thematic) – Oversee and manage portfolio level, thematic studies and evaluations (e.g., ex-post mid/end evaluations, socio-economic, gender equality studies) as required and agreed with the investors and stakeholders.

Your profile

• You have significant (7+ years) experience in Impact, gender and ESG matters in SSA. (e.g. startup, another investment fund, etc.
• Experience working with DFI’s, NGO’s, UN agencies, MDB’s, Investment Funds and/or other development actors.
• Entrepreneurial mindset/experience: you learn quickly and get your hands dirty; you can operate in a fast-paced environment; you’re a self-starter; you take full ownership of assigned tasks/ projects and deliver on time and on quality. You are a team player and know how to motivate yourself and can collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, investors and investees.
• You have experience working within the framework UN SDGs and in the Climate sector, for example: Energy Transition, Agricultural Transition, Resource Transition and associated ecosystem enablers.
• You have experience working on EU-style fund reporting and disclosures, including under EU SFDR Article 9, the EDFI Harmonised Indicators, and also have strong training and certifications.
• You have substantive experience in Gender mainstreaming, including under the 2x Criteria, and also have related training and certifications.
• You have experience and impact related training and qualifications (e.g. degrees, diplomas or certifications such as ESRA, IRIS+, among others.
• You have advanced data management, excel modeling skills and analytical thinking

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