[Hiring] Senior Manager Impact and Intelligence @SNV

Role Description

SNV is building a catalytic commercial accelerator, built to close the gap between capital and impact in markets where both are urgently needed. The Senior Manager for Impact and Intelligence is the intellectual engine within the unit. This role has two distinct but connected responsibilities:

• Delivering client-facing impact measurement as a billable service.
• Synthesising knowledge across the portfolio to build a body of evidence that sharpens our offer and strengthens our market position.

This is not a back-office role. Impact measurement is a revenue line in its own right — impact investors, DFIs, and corporations with sustainability commitments are increasingly willing to pay for rigorous, credible measurement of their programmes. The right person combines analytical rigour with commercial awareness, and understands that evidence is only valuable if it changes decisions.

SNV holds a significant body of institutional knowledge — proposals, evaluations, programme data, sector evidence — accumulated across 50+ years and 25+ countries. Most of it is inaccessible or underused. This role is responsible for changing that: activating SNV’s knowledge base as a commercial asset, not just an archive.

Qualifications

• At least 8 years of experience in impact measurement, monitoring and evaluation, or related analytical roles — with a significant portion in a commercial or advisory context.
• Demonstrated experience delivering impact measurement as a client-facing service, not just as internal reporting.
• Familiarity with the impact investing and development finance landscape — understanding what DFIs and impact funds require from their portfolio companies and TA providers.
• Experience synthesising evidence across multiple programmes or geographies into actionable insights.
• Track record of producing high-quality analytical outputs under time pressure — reports, evidence reviews, data packs — to external standards.
• Experience building or managing knowledge systems in a professional services or advisory context.

Requirements

• Fluency in impact measurement frameworks: IRIS+, IMP, DCED, GIIRS, and at least one results-chain methodology.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills. Comfortable with both survey data and financial models.
• Ability to translate complex evidence into clear, commercial-facing narratives.
• Experience with knowledge management — building systems that people actually use, not just filing evidence.
• Comfort with AI-assisted knowledge tools — document analysis, synthesis, search across large bodies of material.
• English required. French or Portuguese an advantage.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Compensation determined based on relevant experience, skills, and internal equity.
• Flexible location with international travel required.
• Long-term role in building and growing the Accelerator.
• Opportunities for continuous growth and collaboration with a global network of experts.

Company Description

About SNV Proximate: What if you could combine the commercial rigour of consulting, investment, or corporate strategy with the opportunity to create meaningful development impact at scale? SNV’s newly established impact capital accelerator aims to do exactly that: develop commercially viable solutions that generate both business value and development impact.

• Working with companies, investors, development finance institutions, foundations, and governments.
• A place for people who are excited by building something new.
• Comfortable operating across both commercial and development environments.
• Motivated by turning ambitious ideas into scalable results.