Impact & ESG Analyst

Community Investment Management (CIM) is looking for an Impact & ESG Analyst to join our team. CIM is a global institutional impact investment manager that provides strategic debt funding to scale and demonstrate responsible innovation in lending to underserved borrowers in the United States and emerging markets. Our work aims to advance financial inclusion by partnering with select tech-enabled lending partners, improve financial health and drive widespread adoption of such fintech innovation by the financial mainstream.

Position Summary

We are looking for an Impact & ESG Analyst to join our team in Mexico City, Mexico. The Analyst will contribute to all aspects of CIM’s impact and ESG management and reporting work, contributing to positioning CIM as a leader in impact investing. A passion for impact at scale, strong project management skills, and comfort with a high degree of autonomy in a collaborative, global organization are essential for success in this role.

Responsibilities

• Manage impact processes in accordance with CIM’s impact and ESG policy
• Coordinate impact & ESG monitoring via direct company engagement
• Conduct research on new and existing product innovations in support of CIM’s investment thesis
• Synthesize findings, contribute to investment memos, and make recommendations to the team
• Develop and coordinate content pipeline
• Work closely with the teams in San Francisco, New York, Bogota, and other CIM locations on reporting, content, and stakeholder engagement
• Travel occasionally to target markets, as well as to CIM head office in San Francisco or other offices.

Ideal Candidate

• Passionate about social impact, relentlessly inquisitive about identifying emerging trends and IMM best practices.
• 1-2 years of previous work experience, with a background in impact investment, inclusive fintech, and/or ESG management.
• Demonstrated strong project management skills, attention to detail, experience completing projects from inception to completion.
• Comfortable communicating clearly and effectively to share one’s own opinion.
• Excited to work in a small, fluid, ambitious, and highly collaborative global team with a high degree of autonomy, self-motivation, and discipline.
• Strong interpersonal skills, collaborative mindset, self-starter, and work ethic.
• Fluent in English and Spanish with ability to create written content for publication; knowledge of other languages is a plus.
• Optional: technical skills to assist with data and reporting via SQL/Python capabilities.