Our Environmental Finance practice areas focus on channeling investment across a range of issue areas, including Urban & Coastal Resilience, Agriculture, and Forestry & Land Use. We work with nonprofit organizations, corporations, investors, and governments who demonstrate capacity for transformative social and environmental change. By negotiating purposeful partnerships between leaders across sectors, we help them tap into and accelerate the deployment of financial resources needed to sufficiently pilot and scale environmental projects and deliver meaningful impact. We do this through transactions that structure payment around the outcomes of a project, rather than just the project costs. We pioneered this approach in the environmental space in 2016 by helping to structure the first-ever Environmental Impact Bond with DC Water.
Roles and Responsibilities
The summer associates will be an integral part of our team. They will produce necessary deliverables for clients, help us solve challenging problems, and support day-to-day needs of colleagues in the environmental finance practice areas. Our goal is for summer associates to own a key piece of work on a client project that could include: outcomes-based revenue structuring, project cost definition, cost-benefit research and modeling, or monitoring and verification design.
Responsibilities include:
- Work with QV staff to build innovative financing solutions and produce deliverables for our clients, including:
- Research and analysis to help us develop strategies and client recommendations;
- Cost-benefit analyses and economic models to forecast outcomes, cost savings, and/or cash flows; and
- Client-facing PowerPoint presentations to share our findings and recommendations.
- Conduct research on relevant topics for business strategy and projects, such as: Regenerative agricultural practices that also sequester carbon and promote cleaner water; Green infrastructure for stormwater control in urban areas; Outdoor recreation to support rural economic development; Forestry and timber conservation; and Wildfire mitigation practices.
- Support business development initiatives by helping with prospect research and proposals.
- Lead diligence for a new product or market for outcomes-based financing by defining market size and underlying demand drivers, identifying potential deal economics and revenue potential, and outlining potential market entry strategies for QV.
*Represent QV in legislative and agency communications efforts (e.g., state agency briefings, Congressional strategy calls, and meetings) related to legislation on our initiatives. n
Summer associates will gain experience designing transactions, financial modeling, evaluating outcomes and outcome beneficiaries, and identifying and pitching new business opportunities.
Qualifications
Qualifications
Quantified Ventures is a fast-paced, client-focused, creative, supportive, and collaborative environment. We are seeking candidates who care about our mission and who have the skills, drive, and creativity to help us advance it. Impact Investment Summer Associate candidates must have:
- A Bachelor’s degree.
- A history of engagement in one or more fields relevant to our work. This could include experience with environmental or conservation groups, governmental services such as water or electric utilities, municipal or project finance, agriculture or timber management, environmental engineering, nonprofit or community outreach, impact investing and deal structuring, or infrastructure or similar project development.
- Ability to work with standard professional presentation programs (Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, and Excel, Google Workspace).
- Quantitative and qualitative research skills, and an openness to creative and critical thinking around complex problems.
- People and program management skills, with experience navigating relationships among diverse partners and constituencies.
- Strong written and oral communications and listening skills, such as the ability to simplify and describe complicated issues in a clear and compelling way.
- An ability to bring humor, curiosity, and passion to your work.
- Quantified Ventures seeks to deepen our connections with minority communities and other traditionally underrepresented groups to create the broad coalitions we need to effect change and reduce disparities. We encourage women, people of color, individuals who identify as LGBTQIA+, and people with disabilities to apply.
- Experience working with underserved populations and the ability to leverage that experience to provide a perspective on issues, challenges, and needs related to Quantified Ventures’ work is a plus.
Timing
Applications will be accepted beginning November 23, 2020, and ending January 31, 2021. Interviews will be conducted on a rolling basis during late January and February 2021. One or more summer associates may be hired through this announcement.
Summer associates work 12 weeks from late May through Mid-August 2021. Start and end dates can be flexible to University schedules. Summer associates are expected to work full-time.
Location
Quantified Ventures is based in the Washington, DC, area. In a typical year, our summer associates work out of our Washington office. Due to COVID, it is unclear at this time whether the summer associate will be in-person or remote. We will share more information about that as it becomes available.
Compensation
The graduate summer associate program is a paid position. Quantified Ventures is a certified B Corp, making summer associates eligible for matching support from some schools. We encourage and support student efforts to seek matching support from their university where available.
Work Authorization
Candidates should have U.S. work authorization. We are open to applications from currently-enrolled students without permanent U.S. work status that meet the applicable legal requirements for a summer associate position.
To apply
To apply, please respond to the questions and upload your resume on our online application form at https://forms.gle/bdbEFNrPgfkUwA9h6.
Quantified Ventures, LLC is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will be afforded equal employment opportunities without discrimination because of actual or perceived race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, marital status, personal appearance, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, political affiliation, or genetic information.
Quantified Ventures
About Quantified Ventures
Quantified Ventures is an outcomes-based capital firm that drives transformative health, social, and environmental impact in partnership with public, private, and nonprofit clients. We operate across four practice areas: Health & Human Services, Agriculture, Forestry & Land Use, and Urban & Coastal Resilience.
The large and growing market for impact investment capital challenges the notion that there has to be a trade-off between financial and social returns. At Quantified Ventures, we work to connect that capital with projects and programs that deliver measurable social and environmental outcomes to address the world’s most pressing challenges.
Our work includes:
- Consulting and transaction services: We partner with clients to evaluate costs and benefits of potential environmental and health innovations, determine outcomes-based financing feasibility, and build financial models and capital strategies to create impact investment opportunities
- Project development: We design, execute, and manage projects using outcomes-based revenue models and financing structures and align stakeholders to support environmental and health outcomes
- Investment and fund management: We raise and deploy investment dollars to projects using an outcomes-based approach
- Outcomes evaluation: We engage and monitor initiatives post-launch and ensure the ongoing success of projects by managing the contract and evaluation model.
