About DIV Fund
The DIV Fund (http://www.div.fund) is an evidence-driven open innovation fund for global development that identifies and supports cost-effective solutions with the potential to improve millions of lives. The Fund runs an open competition for innovations across sectors and geographies that aim to improve the health and welfare of people living in poverty. We use a tiered model that combines rigorous evidence standards with early-stage risk appetite, supporting early pilots, rigorous testing of promising ideas, and large-scale expansion of the most cost-effective solutions. The DIV Fund serves as a discovery engine for global development, building a pipeline of evidence-driven innovation to meaningfully improve outcomes around the world. We are small, fast-moving, and deeply ambitious about the impact a well-run global development fund can unlock.
The Role
The DIV Fund aims to maximize impact on people's lives, and identifying the innovations with the highest potential for the greatest expected social returns is central to our mission. Investment Managers are the engine of our deal pipeline. You will lead the full investment lifecycle: sourcing high-quality applicants, running due diligence, and preparing investment recommendations. You will have real creative ownership over how we find and evaluate innovations, and your judgment will directly shape the portfolio. As part of an open innovation fund, this work requires comfort with ambiguity and the judgment to identify gaps early, suggest pivots, and recommend decisions, without waiting for perfect information. As part of a fund driven by evidence and potential for cost-effectiveness at scale, it requires comfort with quantitative methods, diving deeply into study design, experimental methods, and cost-effectiveness analysis. This is a central position at the DIV Fund that will play a key role in assessing, selecting, and learning from investments.
We are a newly launched organization with a big mandate and a small and ambitious team. You will play an active role in building our organization's processes, tools, networks, and technology-assisted workflows, which makes our small team punch above its weight.
If you're committed to improving lives through innovation — finding the rare solutions that really deliver for people and getting them the targeted resources to prove out impact and achieve durable scale — and want to help shape how a nimble, high-conviction fund operates in a new era, please apply.
What You'll Do
Pipeline Development & Sourcing
* Execute and continuously improve on a strategy to attract high-quality applications to the DIV Fund
* Build and maintain relationships with intermediaries, funders, implementing organizations, and other ecosystem partners to identify and cultivate a strong pipeline of high-potential funding opportunities
Application Review & Due Diligence
* Screen applications for eligibility, strategic alignment, and potential impact, and contribute to quality management across the full proposal funnel
* Lead technical, financial, evidentiary, and operational diligence on promising proposals, including modeling the expected returns of high-potential proposals. This includes assessing prior evidence, identifying key uncertainties, and evaluating potential for impact, cost-effectiveness, and scale
* Engage directly with applicants throughout the diligence process to develop a deep understanding of their innovation, evidence, operating model, and potential
* Solicit and synthesize input from subject-matter experts, including academic researchers, sector specialists, and practitioners, to select the highest-potential projects and solutions for funding
* Prepare investment memos and expected returns analyses for the DIV Fund's Investment Committee
Technology & Cross-Team Tools
* Contribute to the design and ongoing development of our application and grant management portal
* Identify, build, and implement tools, automations and workflows, including those enabled by AI, that can be used across the investment team to meaningfully improve the quality or efficiency of sourcing, screening, and diligence
Portfolio & Expert Engagement
* Provide ongoing support to current grantees and portfolio organizations
* Design and manage our reviewer network - identifying, recruiting, and coordinating external reviewers with relevant expertise to inform our due diligence
* Unearth, synthesize, and share learnings from the portfolio to ensure the global development field learns from our investments
Building a Growing Organization
* Meaningfully contribute to the daily operations of a fast-paced, start-up organization, supporting broader initiatives where needed – such as supporting fundraising, hiring, and other priorities of the business
What We're Looking For
Required
* 7+ years of relevant professional experience, which may include an advanced degree, in global development or adjacent fields
* Strong written communication; ability to synthesize complex information into clear recommendations for multiple audiences.
* Strong quantitative and analytical skills, with a demonstrated ability to interpret rigorous research and connect evidence to the practicalities of implementation.
* Genuine working familiarity and enthusiasm with AI tools, including experience integrating AI into research, writing, analysis, or operational workflows.
* Entrepreneurial orientation - you are energized by ambiguity, like building things, and see "that's not my job" as a phrase that doesn't apply to you
* Collaborative and low-ego - we need people who argue well and update readily
* Team player with a sense of humor rated at least 8.4 out of 10.
Preferred
* Direct experience working or investing in low- and middle-income countries, with experience engaging in practical, hands-on operations
* Advanced training in microeconomics and econometrics
* Experience structuring or evaluating deals for both financial and social returns
* Experience in sectors relevant to our portfolio, e.g., global health, water, agriculture, or financial inclusion in low- and middle-income countries
* Experience fostering teamwork by driving engagement, collaboration, and a shared mindset.
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