Director of Impact and Innovation at A Better Chicago (ABC)

About the Organization:

A Better Chicago is a venture philanthropy that invests in the most promising nonprofits helping children escape poverty. We’re a supercharger. We have provided more than $65 million in unrestricted funding and management support to help the nonprofits in our portfolio grow. Our donors want to make pivotal, well researched investments that lift the outlook for our city. 

ABOUT THE POSITION - Director of Impact and Innovation

A Better Chicago aspires to raise the bar on analytic rigor in philanthropy and for our brand to connote excellence to those we fund and those who aspire to be part of our portfolio. The Director of Impact and Innovation will lead organizational efforts to strategically deploy internal, externally sourced, and publicly available data. The successful candidate will work across the organization to build an integrated set of systems that enable ABC staff, portfolio organizations, and the board to use data and analytics to improve daily decision-making and long-term planning. This person will develop and lead the implementation of a data strategy that facilitates data-driven investment decisions, monitors the aggregate impact of the portfolio, and prepares data for use in external publications. This is a critical role for A Better Chicago and represents a unique opportunity to join an entrepreneurial organization making a profound impact on the Chicago region. 

APPLICATIONS DUE BY: May 26th, 2023

TARGETED START DATE: Late June 2023

LOCATION: Chicago, IL 

For more information, please visit www.abetterchicago.org. 

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