Executive Director

About Texas Impact Capital Alliance

The Texas Impact Capital Alliance (TICA) is a statewide collaborative designed to strengthen the impact investing ecosystem across Texas and accelerate the deployment of capital for community impact. TICA serves as a platform for coordination and action rather than functioning as a fund or direct lender. The organization brings together a diverse range of institutional investors and mission-driven organizations, including public and private foundations, community foundations, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), financial institutions, healthcare systems, social entrepreneurs, and family offices.

These members work together to align, coordinate, and activate their capital more effectively to address pressing community needs. TICA emerged from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’s Impact Investing Bootcamp, with the Dallas Federal Reserve remaining a supportive convening partner for the collaborative.

The organization recognizes that Texas represents a significant and under leveraged opportunity for impact investment. Communities throughout the state, particularly low- and moderate-income (LMI) communities, face persistent barriers to accessing capital across multiple critical sectors including housing, small business development, economic opportunity, and community health. TICA frames these challenges not only as pressing social issues but as investable problems with measurable outcomes and long-term returns for both communities and capital providers.

The organization is completing its formation phase and moving into activation, which includes the selection of a third-party fund manager to design and manage a Texas-focused fixed-income impact investment tool for TICA members. TICA operates under fiscal sponsorship through the Paso del Norte Community Foundation, which provides administrative, financial, contracting, and compliance infrastructure support. The collaborative is committed to equity and inclusion, ensuring participation and opportunity across diverse regions and communities throughout Texas.

This is a rare opportunity to stand up a statewide impact investing collaborative from the ground up and shape how mission-aligned capital flows to Texas communities for years to come. The Executive Director will serve as TICA’s first dedicated leader, acting as the connective tissue between a committed Steering Committee, a growing base of participating institutions, and the fund managers and partners who will bring TICA’s investment tools to market.

The ideal candidate will combine the credibility to convene senior leaders across philanthropy, banking, healthcare, and community development with the hands-on drive to turn a charter into an operating, capital-activating alliance that advances access to capital and economic opportunity in diverse communities. The Executive Director leads the day-to-day work of TICA and serves as its primary staff leader.

Working closely with the Co-Chairs and Steering Committee, the Executive Director advances TICA’s mission by managing governance and operations, growing and deepening member engagement, supporting the development of long-term strategy, leading the selection and onboarding of the third-party fund manager for TICA’s first investment tool, and designing the learning and networking experiences that make participation valuable. This is a founding builder’s role for an entrepreneurial leader who thrives in early-stage, collaborative environments and enjoys creating structure where little exists.

The successful candidate will thrive in an entrepreneurial, start-up environment where building systems and creating structure are as important as managing day-to-day work.

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