Aspire Impact - Manager/Senior Manager - Operations/Corporate Impact Assessments

Aspire Impact, a leading social enterprise in leadership & ecosystem development; focused on impact assessment, certification & ratings; is seeking to hire a Manager/Sr. Manager - Corporate Impact Assessments (CIA).

This is a long-term work-from-home opportunity, reporting to the Director-CIA. We welcome women returning to workforce who may have been off the workforce for 5-10 years.

About Us:

Aspire Impact is a social enterprise focused on leadership and ecosystem development. Aspire develops Impact Science and supports scaled impact for organizations through Corporate Impact Assessments, Executive Education & Training, Impact Startup Support and the Impact Future Project. Aspire Impact is part of Aspire Group, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Gurgaon. Aspire pioneered Employability Education in India, training over 60,000 unemployed youth in Tier 2/3 cities for new economy jobs. It received many recognitions, including the $100,000 McNulty Prize from The Aspen Institute, India's Top50 Initiatives from Business Today, Young Turk from CNBC and Education Czar from HT-MINT.

Manager/ Sr. Manager - Corporate Impact Assessments (M-CIA):

Role & Responsibilities

The M-CIA must be mission-minded, self-starter and determined executive. S/he will ideally be between 30-45 years of age and be prepared for a startup experience. S/he must have at least 5 years- experience, of which ideally 1 year should be in the Social Impact or Development sector(s). S/he could be a person returning to workforce after a hiatus or a former corporate executive anticipating a move to the social sector.

The key responsibilities of the M-CIA will include but not be limited to the following:

- Product Development: The role primarily requires the M-CIA to work alongside the Director to help build & sharpen the products- e.g., regular upgradation of our Corporate Impact Assessment methodology and its global alignment OR developing our Impact Incubation/Acceleration support services.

- Account Management: The M-CIA will work with the Director to manage clients and convert them into long-term relationships. S/he will also have responsibility to service these clients and ultimately build sectoral Practices.

- Operational Delivery: The M-CIA will spend >50% of his/her time in client service via data collection, analyzing data, writing impact reports, and, communicating findings. S/he must be able to write proposals, create PowerPoint decks, benchmarking charts, find information over the web and create sectoral reports.

- Project Management: The role would require the person to lead multiple time-bound Impact Assessments and Assessment Reports in parallel and therefore must have an eye for detail

Candidate Profile:

Preferred background:

ESG/sustainability/impact related/consulting/financial/non-financial audits

Qualifications

As a start-up in a new sector, the Manager should be flexible and adaptable to emerging realities and trends. S/he must therefore possess the following qualifications:

- Post Graduate Degree in Business or Social Development

- Minimum of 5, ideally 10 years- experience with last 5 years in a leadership role

- Detailed-orientation with ability to build new systems, policies and procedures

- Strong English-level communication skills (written and verbal)

- Revenue orientation and established track record of performance