Strategic Investment Analyst Job West Valley City area,Utah USA,Finance & Banking

Description

THE ORGANIZATION

Promise Partnership Utah is a cross-sector partnership that supports youth in their educational journey from cradle to career to ensure they can explore, dream, and take steps to realize their potential. Our approach involves being rooted in data and deeply collaborating with public and private sector partners to transform the education environment, so it produces more equitable outcomes and disparity gaps are eliminated.

We operate on the deeply held belief that by working collectively we can have a greater impact on our youth than we could have alone.

There is a dedicated team of individuals who support and convene Promise Partnership Utah, called the "backbone team." This team is housed at Utah's Promise, the support entity for the partnership. The Strategic Investment Analyst is part of this backbone team.

Promise Partnership Utah’s backbone team, United Way of Salt Lake, and 211 Utah (Salt Lake City team) are part of the Utah’s Promise organization. Together, we are committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. Our workplace is fast-paced, friendly, adaptive, and grounded in our core values: relationships, continuous improvement, results, and equity. We offer competitive compensation including a comprehensive benefit package, generous paid time off, and flexible schedules.

People with diverse backgrounds and abilities are encouraged to apply.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Promise Partnership Utah backbone team is seeking a relationship-oriented, dynamic, self-starter to join our team as a full-time Strategic Investment Analyst to advance sustainable and equitable funding for children and youth. In this role, you will help provide the necessary data and inputs to aid in coordinating and aligning people, data, and money around common goals for children and youth in Utah.

This will require leveraging research, funding analysis and cost-modeling, relationship management, and project management skills. This role has an explicit focus on advancing sustainable and equitable funding for children and youth and will be responsible for helping to identify existing community investments in children and youth, cost modeling these investments, and identifying potential funding streams to help fill gaps.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Guided by the Promise Partnership Utah established strategic plan, facilitate meetings and decision-making with community partners and local budget holders to make progress towards their strategic public finance goals

Help communities across the state complete their own cost-modeling, investable plans, economic mobility reports, and fiscal mapping projects

Build and maintain relationships with national, state, and local partners to stay up-to-date on strategic public finance best practices and lessons learned from across the country

Position Promise Partnership Utah as a leader in strategic public finance for children and youth by joining a growing national network of strategic public finance experts who are building local capacity and expertise within their states and communities

Lead the completion and maintenance of a state fiscal map, which will track, map, and analyze public and private funding in children and youth programs and services in Utah

Estimate true costs of designing and implementing child and youth programming, with willingness to learn methods such as cost modeling and/or cost estimation

Identify new and emerging funding sources in collaboration with local and national experts to help fill the gap between current investments in children and youth and the actual cost of achieving state/community goals

Provide guidance and data to ballot initiative efforts at a local and state level including researching financing mechanisms, potential tax…