Impact Finance - Director of Impact Measurement and Management

at  US Bank National Association

Los Angeles, CA 90071, USA -

Start DateExpiry DateSalaryPosted OnExperienceSkillsTelecommuteSponsor Visa
Immediate20 Dec, 2024USD 159390 Annual24 Sep, 2024N/AData Collection,Organizational Effectiveness,Investors,Management Style,Coaching,Project Management Skills,Government,Public Policy,Amplification,Strategic Thinking,Community Development,Continuous Improvement,Buy In,Team Culture,Logic ModelsNoNo
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Description:

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions and enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive at every stage of your career. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Impact Finance is seeking a highly skilled, collaborative, and motivated Director of Impact Measurement and Management to join our dynamic Strategy team. This leadership role will report to the Chief Strategy Officer and will lead efforts to elevate the evaluation of our socially and environmentally focused investments, quantify the impact and value of our deals, identify new and emerging opportunities to demonstrate positive contributions, and amplify storytelling to clarify our impact (internally and externally). This leadership role requires strong strategic vision, demonstrated ability to build consensus, a bias for action, and expertise in impact measurement, program evaluation, evaluation research, and project management frameworks. The Director of Impact Measurement and Management will work with a diverse set of internal stakeholders, including Impact Finance’s Senior Leadership Team, the Strategy team and relevant reporting bodies to mitigate risk and produce audit-ready data that showcases the ways that our growing platform contributes positively to people and the planet.
Responsibilities include partnering across the Strategy, Business Transformation, Finance and Senior Leadership Team to help the organization refine and bolster its quantitative and qualitative impact measurement plan. This leader will liaise with key partners on data integrity, data collection processes, data catalogues/definitions, reporting and data governance. This leader will also interface with relevant Enterprise partners to deepen connectivity and refine reporting processes. Additionally, this individual will provide thought leadership and use third-party validation, industry leading practices, and/or tested scorecards, impact reports, or dashboards to ensure alignment to impact measurement and management best-practice standards. This individual will also help the organization apply these learnings to differentiate the business in the marketplace, produce thought leadership and inspire industry-level change-making. This includes partnering with other institutions on research, peer learning, white papers, and conference presentations.
The ideal candidate is an engaging people leader with experience in building alignment, identifying synergies, empowering teams, and bringing cohesion to diverse bodies of work. The successful candidate will lead with a people-first mindset, prioritize deepening relationships, radically listen, and be able to work across silos to bridge gaps and connect dots. As a player-coach, the Director of Impact Measurement and Management will develop a plan to mature our evaluation capabilities, while also managing a team of talented evaluation and measurement experts who are accountable for defining, collecting and analyzing impact metrics, continuously improving our ability to showcase impact on people and planet, reporting, and synthesizing insights for leaders. This leader will have a passion for driving positive change and will empower teams across the organization to understand, measure and manage impact effectively.

Basic Qualifications

  • Master’s degree, or equivalent work experience
  • 10 or more years of experience in project management activities
  • Two or more years of managerial experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

  • Experience designing and/or implementing frameworks and tools for measuring impact, including logic models, program rubrics, and theories of change
  • Expertise in driving continuous improvement. Demonstrated ability to build and scale the implementation of large-scale organization priorities, including developing strategy, getting buy-in and assessing ongoing process improvement
  • Experience in organizational effectiveness, strategy, and/or change management to drive awareness, understanding and amplification of impact
  • Deep knowledge of impact measurement methodologies, data analysis, or evaluation with ability to ensure processes are rigorous, relevant and aligned with industry best practices
  • Experience with qualitative or quantitative data collection, analysis and synthesis
  • Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to translate complex data into actionable insights and recommendations
  • Commitment to fostering an inclusive and collaborative team culture and providing ongoing growth/development opportunities and coaching
  • Experience in producing clear and compelling reports that communicate impact findings to internal and external stakeholders, including investors, partners, and regulators
  • Creative and entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to connect dots and work across verticals to drive towards outcomes
  • Collaborative management style that coaches and empowers team members to do their best work
  • Ability to influence without positional power and foster effective partnerships
  • Strong project management skills, including the ability to connect work to broader strategy and simultaneously bring in the right partners for needed execution
  • Experience working in or with financial services, community development, nonprofit, government, public policy, CDFI, or renewable energy organizations and adjacent industries is desired
  • Understanding of financial metrics is a plus, but not required

U.S. Bancorp Impact Finance, the tax credit and community development division of U.S. Bank, believes all people have a right to the possibilities that comes with living in a safe and vibrant community. The financing USBIF provides for affordable housing, economic development, and renewable energy projects have a lasting social and environmental impact in communities. Visit USBIF on the web to find out more at www.usbank.com/cdc.
U.S. Bancorp Community Development Corporation is now operating as U.S. Bancorp Impact Finance. All job postings under U.S. Bancorp Impact Finance reside within the USBCDC organization.

Responsibilities:

  • Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
  • Basic term and optional term life insurance
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Pregnancy disability and parental leave
  • 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
  • Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
  • Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
  • Adoption assistance
  • Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by la


REQUIREMENT SUMMARY

Min:N/AMax:5.0 year(s)

Financial Services

Accounts / Finance / Tax / CS / Audit

Finance

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Los Angeles, CA 90071, USA