Job Description
As FHI 360 furthers its organizational innovation agenda, the Business Strategy Analysis and Innovation team seeks an Innovation Associate who can contribute broadly in the following ways: Collects, manages, and analyzes global competitive market data for organization to provide support and insight to the management team. Identifies and interprets trends and patterns in datasets to locate influences, particularly around social innovation and impact investing. Provides recommendations and strategic/tactical plans based on business data and market knowledge. Creates specifications for reports and analysis based on business needs and data elements. Supports leadership in impact investing functions for the company’s new impact investing arm. May provide consultation to users and lead cross-functional teams to address business issues.
Job Summary / Responsibilities
Accountabilities:
- Identifies, cultivates and analyzes qualitative and quantitative data in the external competitive market as well as in the internal organization to support business needs, particularly in social innovation.
- Develops competitive landscape analyses for countries, regions, or sectors of interest by analyzing and forecasting funder, competitor and other market trends.
- Identifies external and internal innovation opportunities that aligns with market trends and business need.
- Utilizes innovation frameworks to help develop an organizational path forward in driving more innovative outcomes for the organization.
- Collaborates across other functional teams to support integration of information into strategic planning recommendations.
- Ability to manage key stakeholder and client relationships, internally and externally
- Interprets and translates data into written text and meaningful formats, including production of data visualizations (graphs, charts, tables, maps), summaries, briefs, reports and presentations for executive leadership and functional teams.
- Updates data from multiple sources within the database system on a regular basis to provide information to management to make strategic business decisions.
- Leads project management and coordination/development of work plans, deliverables, and activities.
- Maintains report forms, formats, information dashboards, data generators, reports and other resources.
- Manages internal and external client relationships and cultivates new relationships to support Innovation and Impact Investing priorties
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Applied Knowledge & Skills:
- Comprehensive knowledge of fundamental concepts, practices and procedures of strategic analysis, social entrepreneurship (or intrapreneurship), social impact investing, design thinking and/or social innovation.
- Excellent and demonstrated project management skills.
- Excellent quantitative and analytical skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills
- Ability to analyze and interpret data, identifies errors, and prepares reports.
- Ability to negotiate, influence and collaborate with others.
Problem Solving & Impact:
- Works on problems that are diverse and require analysis of data and evaluation of identifiable factors.
- Demonstrates good judgment in reframing problems and selecting methods and techniques to obtain results and solutions.
- Networks with internal and external personnel in area of expertise.
- Decisions and actions may affect a work unit or area within a department.
Supervision Given/Received:
- Manages team projects and ensures quality deliverables.
- Leads project planning and management of data collection and reporting.
- Makes recommendations to management by presenting data summaries, briefs, reports, and presentations.
- Serves as a resource for management to make informed business decisions.
- Typically reports to an Associate Director or Director.
Travel Requirements: 5%
Qualifications:
Education:
- Bachelor’s Degree or its International Equivalent
- Business Administration, Social Innovation, Finance, or Related Field.
Experience:
- Typically requires 5-8 years of experience with market research, business analysis, or project management.
- Prior experience as a social entrepreneur or working with a management consulting, social impact and/or non-governmental organization (NGO) is preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in client management and business/partnerships development
- Demonstrated experience with analyzing data and creating specifications for reports based on business needs/requests.
- Demonstrated understanding and familiarity with international and domestic funders across multiple sectors.
- Must be able to read, write, and speak fluent English.
- Design thinking skills preferred
Or an equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience sufficient to successfully perform the key responsibilities of the job.
This job description summarizes the main duties of the job. It neither prescribes nor restricts the exact tasks that may be assigned to carry out these duties. This document should not be construed in any way to represent a contract of employment. Management reserves the right to review and revise this document at any time.
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About the Organization
About FHI 360: FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions. Our staff includes experts in health, education, nutrition, environment, economic development, civil society, gender, youth, research and technology — creating a unique mix of capabilities to address today's interrelated development challenges. FHI 360 serves more than 70 countries and all U.S. states and territories. We are currently seeking qualified candidates for the position of: Innovation Associate
