The Global Development Incubator (GDI) is an organization that builds startups and partnerships to address some of the world's toughest global development challenges. We play a mix of the strategist and implementer role to get game-changing ideas off the ground over 18-24 months. Throughout each stage of our process, we bring together the right partners across sectors – including corporations, nonprofits, governments, and foundations – to help new initiatives scale their impact and prepare for long-term success. Above all, we turn talk into action by matching leaders, concepts, and funding with the executional power required to launch and scale ambitious social impact efforts.

Our flexible approach, which we call “growth engineering,” aims to help our partners scale their impact, no matter their sector or stage in development. Often, our collaboration with partners includes strategic and programmatic support (e.g., business planning, partnership creation, board development, work-planning), strategic communications and marketing support (e.g. positioning, branding, communications strategy, thought leadership), and finance and administrative support (e.g., grant and financial management, core operating system development, human resources, executive recruiting).

The GDI team comes from a variety of backgrounds but shares a track record of entrepreneurship, deep social sector experience, and a culture of turning talk into action. Our experience at firms including Dalberg, McKinsey, and Bain grounds us in structured thinking and strategic expertise. But what makes us different from typical consultants is our commitment to long-term outcomes. As an incubator, we make a point to plan an initiative’s endgame from the beginning and set it up for success after GDI. We hold ourselves accountable and measure our success not by the advice we deliver but by what we accomplish with our partners.

For more information, including the current portfolio, please visit: www.globaldevincubator.org.

The Portfolio Manager role is a unique opportunity to work closely with social innovators and entrepreneurs who are addressing major global health, economic, and social challenges. You will be a strategist, advisor, integrator, connector and implementer – with the goal of doing whatever it takes to launch effective new initiatives. You will be the nexus of the partnership between GDI and the entrepreneurial team – bringing together world-class experts on a variety of issues and development; advising the steering committee and senior management team of the new initiative; working closely with the GDI leadership team; and driving implementation. Working closely with Portfolio Directors and together with a small team of Portfolio Managers around the world, you will have significant responsibility and a high degree of autonomy.

Responsibilities: Directly supporting a new portfolio of initiatives:

• Developing a roadmap to scale for prospective initiatives
• Managing the overall portfolio against milestones, budget and target outcomes
• Integrating services provided by consultants and experts and ensuring implementation
• Providing ongoing advisory and strategy support to the senior leadership team 
•  Supporting outreach, network-building and fundraising efforts
• Traveling as needed to support field implementation or headquarters advisory
• Briefing GDI leadership on a weekly basis as to progress, risks and issues
• Participating in quarterly portfolio reviews with the GDI leadership team
• Refining the incubation methodologies based on your hands-on experiences
• Supporting broader knowledge management and dissemination, including authoring articles, blogs and other publications

Desired qualifications: We are looking for experienced candidates with a mix of entrepreneurial, strategy and operational experiences, including:

• Graduate degree (or qualifying work experience) in business, medicine, public health, or public policy

• Fluency in the languages of public health, business, and global development

• Minimum 7 years of work experience in management consulting, finance, and / or social impact organizations

• Direct experience with management and operations, and a successful record of implementation

• Entrepreneurial mindset and experiences, with either a business or social enterprise

• Excellent problem-solving skills

• Ability to work collaboratively, build trust and facilitate change at the senior level of organizations

• Commitment and passion for social change

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.