Impact Officer at Kenya Climate Ventures (KCV)

Your Role and Responsibilities

While reporting to the Enterprise Development Manager, the Impact Officer will be responsible for integrating ESG & Impact considerations into the investment process, portfolio management, stakeholders relations and sustainability. You will work in liaison with the investment and enterprise development teams to;

• Conduct impact due diligence; analyse and articulate the development impacts for prospective investment deals.
• Provide technical assistance to portfolio companies in developing their impact frameworks, planning and reporting tools.
• Monitor over time how the performance of portfolio companies against their development impact goals and KPIs.
• Conduct site visits to validate investee impact
• Coordinate ESG assessments and support mainstreaming of best practice into KCV and portfolio businesses.
• Conduct exit analysis, document lessons and feed back for improved investment evaluation and portfolio management decisions/ practice.
• Collect data, analyse, and articulate the development impacts on portfolio level to support in improving the company’s Theory of Change and impact reporting.
• Coordinate impact studies and assessments in investment sectors and markets.
• Build investee’s capacity in understanding impact assumptions and calculating key impact metrics
• Support Communications Team to develop institutional and portfolio impact stories/ reports/articles.

Do you have what is takes?

For this role, the qualifications include;

• Relevant academic background with at least a bachelor’s degree in development, agricultural economics, sustainable energy, business management, social studies, engineering or statistics or related course.
• Masters degree in business administration, project management, is an added advantage.
• 5 - 8 years of professional experience, hopefully including responsible investments, impact measurements, evaluation processes or development finance. All knowledge of impact and climate investing terminology and tools is considered a merit.
• A strong business perspective, preferably from a financial institution or development financing institution. Experience with investments within the focus areas of renewable energy, water, commercial forestry, agribusiness and waste management.
• Experience with monitoring impact of climate lens, gender lens and/ or refugee lens investment.
• Outstanding organizational skills, including ability to set priorities, develop work plans towards multiple goals, monitor progress and track details on information and activities.
• Excellent writing, communication and presentation skills.
• Familiar with statistical tools for data analytics and presentation
• Must possess good understanding of SGBs financing and support, private sector.
• Must possess understanding of climate financing.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with a good aptitude for pro - active communication and transparency, patience and perseverance.
• Ability to influence and push the impact agenda internally and externally.
• Prefered work experience from Sub Saharan Africa.
• Full professional proficiency in English.