Website Elemental Impact
About Elemental Impact
Elemental Impact is a nonprofit organization that acts as a catalyst in advancing innovative technologies with significant environmental and local impacts. With 17 years of experience, it boasts a robust portfolio backed by 40 funders and includes 160 companies. These companies have significantly contributed by catalyzing $11.8 billion in additional funding and creating more than 18,100 jobs. Elemental aims to address and correct market failures for pioneering and early commercial projects by offering catalytic capital and specialized expertise. This includes policy engagement and workforce development to ensure that these innovations lead to real, sustainable impacts.
About this Role
Elemental is on the lookout for a Director of Data Strategy & Insights, a role born at the nexus of data, strategy, and storytelling. The purpose of this position is to architect systems, analytics, and insights crucial in enhancing investment decisions and identifying emergent trends. The person in this role is expected to highlight the real-world impacts of Elemental’s work, ensuring that data is utilized to inform strategic decisions, drive action, and strengthen storytelling across portfolios. Your responsibilities will involve close collaboration with various teams, including investment, portfolio, communications, and operations, to bolster data infrastructure and facilitate improved decision-making processes. You will also play a vital role in identifying and implementing AI and automation tools to boost the team’s efficiency and operational scale. This position reports directly to the Chief Operating Officer.
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and execution of Elemental’s organizational data strategy.
- Maintain and continuously improve centralized data infrastructure.
- Improve the organization’s CRM architecture, including stakeholder engagement, pipeline tracking, and reporting systems.
- Identify opportunities to leverage AI tools, automate workflows, and integrate emerging technologies.
- Analyze organizational and portfolio performance.
- Develop dashboards and reporting tools for actionable insights.
- Identify emerging themes and trends across sectors.
- Partner with various teams to translate insights into compelling narratives and reports.
- Help oversee and manage external data partnerships.
- Establish portfolio-wide impact measurement frameworks and reporting standards.
- Coach companies on impact measurement and commercialization metrics.
- Support the development of impact narratives.
Requirements
- Strong experience analyzing complex datasets and translating findings into actionable insights.
- Experience measuring and evaluating environmental, economic, or social outcomes.
- Ability to synthesize information into compelling narratives and data visualizations.
- Experience with scalable data infrastructure and CRM systems.
- Strong project management, communication, and cross-functional partnership skills.
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
- Familiarity with automation and AI tools is a plus.
- Experience providing client services around impact measurement is advantageous.
Benefits
- Full-time “at-will” position.
- Salary range of $138,100 – $207,200.
- Comprehensive employee benefits.
- Professional development stipend.
- Three weeks paid time off.
- Periodic travel for work.
- Hybrid working model with community-building incentives. Please ensure you meet the qualifications before applying, and note the encouragement to apply even if not meeting 100% of the qualifications.
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