Senior VC Analyst @ Foundation , NY

Senior Investment Analyst. New York. Posting Date: 02/28/2025. Deadline: 03/07/2025

Role

Title:

Senior Investment Analyst

Contract Type: Fixed-Term (June 2025 – June 2026)

Reporting To: Managing Director, Investments (dotted line reporting to Director, Impact & Operations and/or Head of Policy/Innovative Finance)

Program/Department/Unit Name: Soros Economic Development Fund

Location: New York

Team Name: Soros Economic Development Fund

• Support the development of investment themes/strategies.
• Lead relevant landscaping/benchmarking exercises to identify and develop new investment opportunities in line with SEDF’s investment strategies.
• Support the management of investment processes, including:
• Ensuring all deals, and deal details, at every stage of investment process, are properly catalogued in SEDF’s database and other management systems.
• Drafting investment recommendations, from pre-concept notes to concept notes to final investment memos
• Contribute to due diligence, including:
• Supporting Investment Principals and the Managing Director in developing and executing diligence workplans
• Developing financial models and financial analysis
• Undertaking risk analysis
• Contributing to impact and ESG analysis
• Contribute to forging strategic partnerships for SEDF at portfolio and individual deal level — both within Open Society Foundations and externally with key stakeholders (impact investors, MDBs/DFIs, expert consultants, etc.).
• Support asset management, including overseeing creative ways to add value to SEDF investees.
• Contribute to the refinement/improvement of SEDF’s investment processes and systems, as needed, including memos and documentation, reporting, database management, etc.

• Support a variety of projects and initiatives related to SEDF’s impact investment strategy and execution.
• Drive special projects that advance the SEDF’s investment, program or policy priorities with guidance from the CEO, Director of Policy and Innovative Finance and/or Director of Impact and Operations.
• Support, as needed, strategy development and implementation, operations, investment processes — including deal diligence, execution, internal and external communication, impact measurement and management, policy work, communications, partner and stakeholder management.
• Special projects might include helping SEDF to: develop sectoral or geographic strategies; research investable opportunities in target sectors/fields; contribute to improving SEDF internal processes/templates/operating procedures; generate content for SEDF’s communications activities; help to organize and present SEDF’s impact data and other tasks to be assigned as needed by SEDF.

• Support to prepare materials for and meetings with OSF leadership, SEDF Advisory Board, External Advisors to Investment Committee, and other key OSF and SEDF stakeholders
• Coordinate agendas and materials for leadership meetings, team retreats; collect and synthesize information from across SEDF for various team, Board and OSF communications and updates
• Support special projects, as needed.

SEDF Directors Of

• Investment
• Impact & Operations
• Policy & Innovative Finance
• Strategic Advisor

Other impact investors and commercial actors (financial services, corporates), DFIs, MDBs and government/policy makers

• Knowledge of, or experience in, investment or business operations
• Experience in financial analysis
• Strong communication, research, and presentation skills – particularly related to conveying complex information about business, market trends and dynamics, and the intersection between policy and the…