Senior Manager, Gender-Lens Investing
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Grand Challenges Canada
Hybrid- Career category: Fundraising/ Grant management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 5-10 years
- Organisation type: Civil Society
- Remote option: Hybrid
- Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
- Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
- Length of contract: Permanent
- Location: Canada
ABOUT
Grand Challenges Canada backs Bold Ideas with Big Impact®. We are a global innovation platform and one of the world’s leading impact-first investors, working toward a future where innovation helps everyone thrive. With support from the Government of Canada and other partners, we use a Grand Challenges approach to identify, invest in, and help scale bold, locally led solutions that advance health, equity, and resilience in low- and middle-income countries and Canada.
We back bold ideas from seed to scale—combining capital, advisory support, and strategic partnerships to help them grow and succeed. We look for innovations that combine science, social insight, and business strategy—what we call Integrated Innovation®—to drive real-world change.
We work with innovators to test, refine, and de-risk solutions, positioning them for long-term adoption through public systems, private-sector pathways, or blended models. Our goal: to save and improve lives at scale by turning bold ideas into sustainable solutions
POSITION OVERVIEW AND KEY RESPONSIBILITES
As a member of the Innovation Advisory team at GCC, the Senior Manager, Gender-Lens Investing will directly contribute to the team’s objective of enabling and advising other functions within GCC to deliver our main mandate of getting money in the hands of innovators and supporting them to scale for impact. The Senior Manager will drive GCC's approach to gender lens investing, ensuring gender is embedded across the investment process and portfolio, and strengthening GCC's role in shaping how capital advances gender equity across our areas of impact.
Qualifications
• A minimum of 8+ years of relevant work experience in gender-lens investing, women's economic empowerment, or gender equality.
• At least 3 years of team leadership and people management experience.
• An advanced degree in Gender Studies, Women’s Economic Empowerment, finance, business, international development or a related discipline.
• Deep understanding of gender analysis frameworks, gender-lens investing, women's economic empowerment strategies.
• Experience with gender-focused investment instruments, funds, or programs.
• Strong background in impact measurement and /or gender data analysis.
• Strong knowledge of innovation ecosystems and experience supporting early-stage ventures and social enterprises in low- and middle-income countries.
• Demonstrated expertise designing and delivering advisory services that promote gender equality.
• Strong analytical skills. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to present with confidence.
• Strategic, proactive and strong execution skills.
• Passion and positivity for what we do and the impact we seek in the world.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to perform well independently, within and cross multiple teams.
Grand Challenges Canada backs Bold Ideas with Big Impact®. We are a global innovation platform and one of the world’s leading impact-first investors, working toward a future where innovation helps everyone thrive. With support from the Government of Canada and other partners, we use a Grand Challenges approach to identify, invest in, and help scale bold, locally led solutions that advance health, equity, and resilience in low- and middle-income countries and Canada.
We back bold ideas from seed to scale—combining capital, advisory support, and strategic partnerships to help them grow and succeed. We look for innovations that combine science, social insight, and business strategy—what we call Integrated Innovation®—to drive real-world change.
We work with innovators to test, refine, and de-risk solutions, positioning them for long-term adoption through public systems, private-sector pathways, or blended models. Our goal: to save and improve lives at scale by turning bold ideas into sustainable solutions
POSITION OVERVIEW AND KEY RESPONSIBILITES
As a member of the Innovation Advisory team at GCC, the Senior Manager, Gender-Lens Investing will directly contribute to the team’s objective of enabling and advising other functions within GCC to deliver our main mandate of getting money in the hands of innovators and supporting them to scale for impact. The Senior Manager will drive GCC's approach to gender lens investing, ensuring gender is embedded across the investment process and portfolio, and strengthening GCC's role in shaping how capital advances gender equity across our areas of impact.
Qualifications
• A minimum of 8+ years of relevant work experience in gender-lens investing, women's economic empowerment, or gender equality.
• At least 3 years of team leadership and people management experience.
• An advanced degree in Gender Studies, Women’s Economic Empowerment, finance, business, international development or a related discipline.
• Deep understanding of gender analysis frameworks, gender-lens investing, women's economic empowerment strategies.
• Experience with gender-focused investment instruments, funds, or programs.
• Strong background in impact measurement and /or gender data analysis.
• Strong knowledge of innovation ecosystems and experience supporting early-stage ventures and social enterprises in low- and middle-income countries.
• Demonstrated expertise designing and delivering advisory services that promote gender equality.
• Strong analytical skills. • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to present with confidence.
• Strategic, proactive and strong execution skills.
• Passion and positivity for what we do and the impact we seek in the world.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to perform well independently, within and cross multiple teams.
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