OFN is seeking an entrepreneurial, knowledgeable, and detail-oriented Senior Associate to join the Climate team. OFN has established climate change as a priority area of focus for the organization. This role will support OFNs growing climate initiatives, including the development and deployment of our new program which will be funded by the EPAs Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The goal of this program is to transform the community development finance industry with a new clean financing ecosystem. The Senior Associate, Climate will support the development and subsequent management of new climate initiatives including: workforce development programs, help desk, lender training programs, market building activities, and impact data collection. The role will collaborate substantially with other teams across the organization to support integration of climate-related programming and knowledge across departments.
OFN is the nations leading investment intermediary and network CDFIs serving rural, urban, and Native communities across the United States. With over $1 billion in total assets under management, OFN manages a national membership network of over 410 mission-driven lenders and CDFIs, including community development loan funds, credit unions, green banks, community development banks, minority depository institutions, and venture capital funds. OFN is a trusted investment partner to the public, private, and philanthropic sectors foundations, corporations, banks, government agencies, and others. For more than 30 years, our team has helped partners invest in communities to catalyze change and create economic opportunities for people and places traditional finance doesnt reach.
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People who work at OFN come from a variety of professional and academic backgrounds. If you have:
- Passion for the mission and true believer in our core purpose.
- Courage to be a fearless advocate who is confident and resilient in our fight to drive capital into low-income communities.
- Smart, quick seekers of knowledge who thrive on creating and developing new strategies, products, and programs for increasing capital to communities we serve.
- Desire to be a collaborative team player who possesses humility and a willingness to lean in all areas of our work.
Come be a part of our growing diverse, highly committed, skilled, and collaborative staff. At OFN, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive workplace, so if you are excited about this role but your experience does not align perfectly with every qualification, we encourage you to apply nonetheless. You may be the right candidate for this or other roles.
This position is based in Washington, D.C. All staff currently work a hybrid schedule.
Core Responsibilities
- Support Climate program initiatives as directed, including but not limited to support for market building activities, green workforce development, contractor accelerators, and delivery of project-level assistance via a help desk.
- Work cross-functionally to support implementation of Climate program initiatives across the organization and to increase climate presence and programming in other OFN departments.
- Support the creation of capacity building resources to help OFN members launch or deepen their climate lending, providing subject matter knowledge to help other teams develop training materials, marketing toolkits, and other resources. Core subject matter areas include solar, wind, storage, energy efficiency, and electric vehicles.
- Collaborate with other teams to support recruitment of climate-focused lenders.
- Support the VP, Climate in the creation of tools to enable multiple lenders to participate in financing a project (ex: loan syndication platform).
- Assist with monitoring and disseminating climate lending-related resources and funding opportunities, including federal and state incentives, which lenders may be able to leverage.
- Collaborate with relevant teams to assist the VP, Climate in the build out of climate data reporting platform, including data collection, cleaning, synthesis and presentation.
- Support the development and implementation processes for collecting and managing climate data in Salesforce (for prospecting, connecting, etc.), with responsibility for data entry and maintenance.
- Support development of processes and content creation for new climate help desk.
- In partnership with relevant teams, manage climate communities on CDFI Connect and support other direct communications with OFN members (e.g.: webinars, outreach activities, etc.)
- Provide support for Sustainability Committee and Climate Industry Advisory Council meetings, including agenda development and logistics.
- Engage with external stakeholders, including OFN members and industry stakeholders and partners.
- Perform other duties as assigned, including supporting climate-related special initiatives and Climate team functions, such as climate transaction pipeline development activities, climate research projects, etc.