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Rippleworks Foundation provides high-growth social ventures with practical support and flexible capital to help scale their impact and improve more lives. The foundation’s programs have directly supported 250+ social ventures working in 60+ countries around the world.

Rippleworks partners with impactful social ventures (both nonprofit and for-profit) in three main ways:

• Projects: Short-term, high-impact engagements where organizations address a key operational challenge through a customized engagement that pairs them with an industry-leading executive who has deeply relevant experience.
• Leaders Studio: Interactive, results-driven learning programs where social venture leaders gain critical skills to deliver impact at scale.
• Capital: Flexible funding required for scale (unrestricted grants to nonprofits & loans to for-profits). The team has distributed $170M+ since 2018.

We are a 45+ person team on a mission to help impactful ventures thrive. We strive to create the best possible workplace for purpose-driven professionals to make an outsized difference in the world: learning, growing, and having fun together along the way. Rippleworks has been named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies (by Fast Company) and one of the world’s Best Workplaces for Innovators (by Fast Company and Accenture).

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) is at the center of our work. We take an active role in disrupting inequities that disadvantage historically excluded people. You can read more about our journey and commitment here.

We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to improving DEIB at Rippleworks. Candidates from racially underrepresented and marginalized groups (Black, Latinx, Native American or individuals with national origins from developing countries that reflect the communities we serve) are strongly encouraged to apply. Rippleworks also complies with federal and state disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please email christina@rippleworks.org.

Hiring Key Dates:

- Applications Open: August 27, 2024

- Applications Closed: September 13, 2024

- Interviews occurring: August to October

The Role

The Rippleworks Capital team is responsible for deploying $60M annually. The Portfolio Manager will play a critical role on the team evaluating and recommending funding to impactful social enterprises around the world. At first, you will support the front end of our diligence process, evaluating core criteria key to our investing strategy. Eventually, you will independently lead end-to-end deals, working across the full investment lifecycle of pre-diligence, diligence, investment recommendations and monitoring/learning. You will engage with a wide range of stakeholders from impact investors to entrepreneurs across all sectors and geographies.