Rippleworks

Director

• Strategically align Rippleworks' investment strategy with the organization's broader strategy of supporting the best social entrepreneurs in achieving significant scale. This includes direct investments and funding through collaborative philanthropy partnerships.
• Manage, develop and coach the team
• Support the team in executing a venture-friendly strategy and process for making, structuring and monitoring investments
• Fund a world-class portfolio of high-impact, scalable social ventures
• Work in partnership with the Sourcing team to develop and maintain strong and authentic relationships with aligned investors
• Sit on the Rippleworks Leadership Team and Programs & Capital Department Leadership team, and participate in formulating the operationalization of Rippleworks' strategic direction
• Collect, analyze, synthesize learning from the Rippleworks portfolio to answer whether Rippleworks is driving the type of impact we seek to have in the world; recommend shift in strategy to drive increased impact
• Be a thought leader; influence the ecosystem to drive greater impact
• Oversee the Capital team’s work to build out its support for Scaling Essentials; critical venture-level capabilities that the Rippleworks Capital team can uniquely support in addition to direct funding

Managing Director, Capital