Role OverviewGDI is an incubator for transformational development ventures, working to build and scale the next generation of social impact solutions. The Senior Associate, Strategy and Build role involves working on the founding teams of startups and partnerships focused on social impact, researching, scoping, shaping, and prioritizing ideas and partners GDI takes on, and developing initial blueprints into full-blown ventures.
What You Will Do
The role will involve complex impact, financial, market, and policy analyses, leading research and quantitative and qualitative analysis, stakeholder mapping, and market landscaping, owning the responsibility for their accuracy and reliability. You will also support Directors in sourcing, evaluating, and shaping opportunities and concepts for incubation, and make recommendations on the fit of an initiative to GDI's objectives and services.
Why It Might Be a Fit
This role is a unique opportunity to be on the founding teams of startups and partnerships focused on social impact, working closely with social leaders, innovators, and entrepreneurs who are addressing some of the world's biggest problems. You will have the opportunity to landscape, analyze, and develop hypotheses across a wide range of sectors, and to exercise a high degree of autonomy and initiative and to take on significant responsibility.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional experience, including running projects or initiatives end to end: managing workplans, budgets, stakeholders, and delivery
- Demonstrated facilitation skill: you can design and run a dynamic working session with people who don't agree, read the room, and leave with a decision
- Comfortable operating across funders, governments, nonprofits, and private companies, and able to represent GDI credibly in senior external settings
- Sound judgement in using AI tools for real work: Comfort using AI tools for research, analysis, drafting, workflow, while importantly knowing when it is reliable and when it isn't, and adapt as capabilities change
- Strong analytical judgment: able to structure a problem, direct and quality-check analysis (whether your own, a colleague's, or a model's) and surface what leadership actually needs to know
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills; self-directed and resourceful, with high standards for quality output
- A curious and creative intellect, and a style that includes flexibility, levelness, and a sense of humor and humility
Benefits
- Employer contributions to health, dental, and vision insurance plans for employees and dependents
- 401(k) matching contributions
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