About the role

  • Manage a team of investment experts working with external advisors on private equity, real estate, private credit, hedge funds, and other alternative investments
  • Define and communicate direction and strategy of alternative investments and impact investments capabilities
  • Set standards of care, policies and guidelines driving the team's work
  • Provide managerial oversight, establish controls and reporting
  • Support advisor and donor relationships through consultative and solution-oriented discussions
  • Identify and implement opportunities to improve service quality and operating efficiency, optimize costs, and mitigate operational risk
  • Serve as main point of contact for organizational strategic and departmental initiatives related to alternative and impact investments
  • Collaborate with internal auditors and operation heads to maintain strong control environment
  • Mentor and develop team members
  • Conduct due diligence reviews, provide transaction support and oversight for complex non-traditional investments
  • Collaborate with legal and tax teams as needed
  • Provide in-depth analysis of portfolio and fund performance, risk, cash flows, and underlying investments

Requirements

  • 15+ years’ experience in alternative investments or private markets front or middle office, or in an investments role with demonstrated ability to gain client trust
  • MBA or graduate degree in finance, economics, or related field
  • CFA and/or CAIA, or progress towards these certifications is preferred
  • Demonstrated experience setting multi-year strategies for a functional team, working across an organization to gain trust and alignment with other senior leaders
  • Strong intrapersonal skills, building and strengthening relationships, influencing without authority
  • Proven experience leading a team of successful professionals and experts, including mentoring and career development
  • Strong understanding of alternative investments, including private equity, real estate, private credit, hedge funds, and other non-traditional investments
  • Strong understanding of impact investments, including ESG, PRIs, and the landscape of impact-oriented solutions
  • Deep understanding of investment offering materials, including limited partnership agreements and subscription documents
  • Experience with investment and operational due diligence
  • Experience with investment policy statements
  • Strong analytical skills; excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Experience with business cycle planning, budgeting, forecasting, resource planning
  • Experience identifying and maintaining sound internal controls and data quality environment
  • Experience working with technology teams to drive business requirements for system enhancements
  • Experience with Advent, Bloomberg and alternative investment third party services is a plus

Benefits

  • Hybrid work requiring associates to work onsite every other week
  • Diversity and inclusive workplace
  • Reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities

Job title

VP, Head of Alternative and Impact Investments

Job type

Experience level

Lead

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Postgraduate Degree

Location requirements

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