Senior Development Impact Specialist; Impact Monitoring

The U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) is America’s development finance institution, established in 2019 with bipartisan support. DFC partners with the private sector to advance U.S. foreign policy and strengthen national security by mobilizing private capital around the world. The organization invests across strategic sectors including critical minerals, modern infrastructure, and advanced technology while fostering economic development, supporting U.S. interests, and delivering returns to American taxpayers.

DFC operates through a comprehensive approach to international development finance, working to channel private investment into emerging markets and developing countries. The corporation serves as a catalyst for economic growth by providing financing solutions, political risk insurance, and other financial products that enable private companies to invest in strategic sectors that align with U.S. foreign policy objectives. The agency is headquartered at 1100 New York Avenue, NW in Washington, DC, and operates within the competitive service of the federal government.

DFC is represented by a union (AFGE, Local 1534) and employs professionals dedicated to advancing development finance and impact assessment methodologies that demonstrate measurable results in emerging markets.

This position is part of the Development Impact Division, Office of Development Policy (ODP), within the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). As a Senior Development Impact Specialist (Impact Monitoring), you will serve as a leader in DFC’s impact performance strategy, utilizing data-driven assessments, monitoring, and reporting mechanisms to strengthen the corporation’s ability to track project results and inform investment decisions.

In this role, you will be responsible for developing and maintaining comprehensive impact data systems that support DFC’s project portfolio management. You will work to enhance data cleaning and quality assurance procedures while creating analytical tools, benchmarks, dashboards, and visualizations that improve data integrity, accessibility, and usability across the organization. Your work will involve supporting both ex ante impact assessments and ongoing monitoring activities for active projects.

You will track performance targets and outcomes, identify whether projects are tracking on or off schedule, recommend corrective actions based on performance data, and apply lessons learned from completed projects to inform future investment decisions. Additionally, you will update impact monitoring policies, procedures, tools, and strategic initiatives in alignment with DFC’s impact framework and corporate strategy. This includes working with emerging industry practices and representing DFC within the broader impact management sector.

You will prepare thought leadership products, congressional materials, data responses, and special reports as needed.

• Lead DFC’s impact performance strategy through project- and portfolio-level assessments that support data-driven decision-making, capture lessons learned, and communicate development impact results
• Develop and maintain impact data systems, data cleaning and quality assurance procedures, analytical tools, benchmarks, dashboards, visualizations, and reporting products to improve data integrity, accessibility, and usability
• Support ex ante impact assessment and ongoing monitoring of active projects; track targets and outcomes, identify on- and off-track performance, recommend corrective actions, and apply lessons learned to future investment decisions
• Update impact monitoring policies, procedures, tools, and…