The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE)
ANDE is a member-driven organization housed within the Aspen Institute. Our members are leading non-profits, foundations, investors and researchers who are creating a movement to unleash the poverty-reducing potential of small and growing businesses (SGBs) in emerging markets.
Participants in ANDE share a common goal: to dramatically increase the number and impact of small and growing businesses in the developing world. With the right support, we believe SGBs will generate much needed employment and address critical social and environmental challenges in the developing world.
ANDE will identify common strategic challenges and opportunities facing SGBs, and based on these findings, provide services for our members as well as public goods that can benefit everyone in the sector. We seek to become a globally respected network through which members can address system-wide challenges that can only be addressed through collective action.
One of our key areas of focus is the development of transparent and consistent metrics in the impact investing space. Over the past year ANDE has been working with the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS) Initiative, a collaborative effort to provide a system that will capture and manage impact investing data effectively, benchmark performance, and assess overall social and environmental impact. As the IRIS taxonomy and information system is rolled out, ANDE is poised to play a significant role in promoting the adoption and utilization of IRIS.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
ANDE is seeking an Impact Assessment Manager to support the further growth and development of the ANDE metrics and evaluation effort. He or she will facilitate the ANDE adoption and incorporation of IRIS with its members. Specifically with regard to IRIS, this person will:
- Assist ANDE member organizations in the implementation of IRIS and Pulse for their individual systems by resolving any technological issues and assisting in the identification of requirements that will facilitate the flow of data into the repository
- Support ANDE members by mapping their existing indicators to the IRIS taxonomy indicators
- Hold trainings for impact managers at member organizations to encourage compliance and understanding
- Work with ANDE members on the XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) data tagging process
- Develop a process to conduct a high-level quality check of data being submitted to the aggregator to ensure that the data repository is populated with accurate data for benchmarking
- Analyze IRIS data as it relates to entrepreneurship in emerging markets; Support the IRIS team’s efforts around developing reports and outputs from the IRIS database
Additionally, the Impact Assessment Manager will manage all of ANDE’s metrics and evaluation efforts. They will:
- Educate ANDE and non-ANDE members about the importance, skills, and tools of metrics and evaluation
- Manage and orchestrate a monthly metrics working group call
- Manage and update the Metrics from the Ground Up website
- Co-Manage the annual ANDE Metrics & Evaluation Conference
- Oversee ANDE’s own metrics and evaluation
- Oversee the development of ANDE’s annual impact report
- Keep abreast of new technologies and advancements in impact reporting
The program manager will report to the ANDE Executive Director.
Knowledge, Education and Experience:
- Applicants should have at least a Bachelors Degree and two years of experience in IT consulting or a related area.
- Degrees in business, public policy, economics, systems engineering, and/or political science are preferred.
- Applicants should have a demonstrated interest and experience in supporting small and growing businesses, ideally in the developing world context.
- Applicants should have experience deploying and training users to adopt web solutions, and a basic understanding of XBRL is strongly preferred.
- Applicants should be willing and eager to work with colleagues from across the globe and capable of managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Successful applicants will be excellent writers and analysts who thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to teach.
Please refer to the website for more information: www.aspeninstitute.org/ande.
