Investment Associate, Humanitarian Innovation

5 months ago

Toronto, Canada Grand Challenges Canada Full time

**Position**: Investment Associate, Humanitarian Innovation

**Site**: Hybrid: MaRS Discovery Tower (Toronto) + Work from HomeDepartment: Grand Challenges Canada
Reports to: Investment Manager, Humanitarian Innovation

**Status**: Full-time, temporary

**Salary**: $70,200/year + benefits

Grand Challenges Canada (GCC) is dedicated to supporting Bold Ideas with Big Impact®. Funded by the Government of Canada and other partners, GCC funds innovators in low
- and middle-income countries and Canada. The bold ideas we support integrate science and technology, social and business innovation - we call this Integrated Innovation®. We have a determined focus on results, and on saving and improving lives. GCC works closely with a global network of partners to bring successful innovation to scale, catalyzing sustainability and impact.

As one of the largest impact-first funders in Canada, GCC has funded over 1,400 innovations championed by innovators in more than 102 countries. These innovations have already improved 10 million lives and are expected to save up to 1.78 million lives and improve up to 64 million lives by 2030.
- Creating Hope in Conflict: A Humanitarian Grand Challenge_ (HGC) is a partnership of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO), the Government of the Netherland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (NMFA), Global Affairs Canada (GAC) and Grand Challenges Canada. Together, we seek life-saving or life-improving innovations to help the most vulnerable and hardest-to-reach people impacted by humanitarian crises caused by conflict across the following focus areas:

- : Innovations that improve the supply and quality of water, sanitation and waste management in conflict settings.
- : Innovations that create affordable, clean and reliable sources of electricity, including supporting local energy equipment vendors and better mapping energy demand and usage.
- : Innovations that improve access to life-saving information, which may include addressing ICT infrastructure challenges, increasing digital literacy or improving two-way communication between humanitarian actors and the affected communities.
- : A wide range of innovations including, but not limited to, improving local manufacturing of health and nutrition supplies, improving medical product logistics or improving emergency outbreak response.

The **ASSOCIATE **ensures the implementation of efficient, high-quality investment management processes across the complete investment life cycle, working closely with GCC innovators and cross-functional teams.

**Key Responsibilities**
- **Support the Investment Manager to fund innovative deals aligned with portfolio strategy, by**:
Transition to Scale
- Conduct key aspects of programmatic and financial due diligence and risk analysis to evaluate new investment opportunities, support the preparation of investment memorandum, and support the presentation of potential investments to GCC’s Investment Committee

SEED
- Contribute to decision-making on innovations to pursue for transition to scale funding

ALL
- Lead negotiation processes for new funding agreements, ensuring appropriate project and institutional due diligence (e.g., financial, legal, Intellectual Property, and risk mitigation) is complete
- **Support the management of Humanitarian Innovation investments that achieve impact**:

- Act as primary and/or secondary deal lead on allocated deals
- Review innovator progress against programmatic milestones, approve innovator progress, results and financial reports, recommend appropriate venture advisory support
- Evaluate innovator requests for grant amendments and make recommendations
- Monitor and close-out existing grants and contracts
- Mitigate concerns, flag risk events, and raise issues with the Portfolio Manager and/or Management, as necessary
- **Contribute to adjustments in portfolio strategy**:

- Support knowledge management and translation of portfolio data by managing project data, conducting analysis of portfolio-level progress, results and lessons learned, coordinating the update of key information in the grants management system
- Contributing to the internal portfolio review presentations, portfolio funder reports, and the portfolio strategy
- **Contribute collaborative leadership to advance a high-performing, resilient team**:

- Support onboarding and training of junior staff to contribute to project and portfolio progress
- Recommend tasks for delegation to Program Analyst(s) on the portfolio
- Provide feedback and support to Program Analyst(s) on the portfolio
- Support and/or lead process improvement projects within Humanitarian Innovation and cross-departmentally
- **Support the Investment Manager to represent GCC and the portfolio with external audiences**:

- Engage with key internal and external stakeholders, overseeing grantees and other external stakeholders’ participation, to promote learning opport

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