Consultant, Catalytic Capital Consortium Community of Practice

Consultant, Catalytic Capital Consortium Community of Practice

About the Catalytic Capital Consortium

The Catalytic Capital Consortium (C3) is an investment, learning, and market development initiative launched in 2019 by the MacArthur Foundation, in partnership with the Omidyar Network and the Rockefeller Foundation. The goal of this global initiative is to promote greater understanding and more effective use of catalytic capital in order to help build a more just, equitable, and resilient world.

To harness and build upon growing interest in catalytic capital and interest from the community, the C3 team is setting up a formally-structured Catalytic Capital Community of Practice (CC COP), allowing for connectivity with others active in catalytic capital work, as well as offering knowledge, capabilities, and tools around catalytic capital, to ultimately help drive greater and more effective use of catalytic capital. The team aims to empower and support leaders around the world – champions who can help increase the knowledge, awareness, and use of catalytic capital in their own communities and relevant sectors.

The CC COP is expected to have two broad strands –

1) Learning Labs Community of Practice (LL COP)

A community comprising of a select core group of experienced investors that generate working groups formed to pursue catalytic capital-related activities or goals. These working groups include deal-sharing groups, for those actively pursuing transactions at a meaningful scale, and thematic groups, which are intended in a broad way as a theme, topic, or focus that could be of interest for a group of practitioners, discussing landscape and issues around work being done more broadly beyond deals.

2) Network-led COP

A community designed to welcome other stakeholders interested in learning about catalytic capital and receiving training to increase their knowledge, potentially becoming part of the core group. This learning journey is led by C3’s current network partners from different regions with expertise in the field who support interested participants (primarily investors) through various learning stages relating to catalytic capital while actively targeting a broader impact-minded audience to join the community. Catalytic capital programming with these network partners is under development and is expected to lead to the formation of different communities across markets and thematic areas.

Contract Summary

The deliverables of this contractor role are expected to evolve over time, starting with support for an initial 3-5 working groups (each with its own specific mandate) that would form from the LL COP described above. Over a period of 12 months, the expectation is to incorporate additional coordination with other groups that are formed with C3 support by different partners, including the global and regional network partners undertaking catalytic capital programming with their member groups. Individual group mandates will be specific; however, the main deliverables of the consultant are consistent across the groups. These include:

a) Convening the groups

i. Design and facilitate convenings.

ii. Organize convening logistics, including meeting venues (online and in-person), other arrangements, catering, materials, reminders, etc.

b) Coordinating the groups and their meetings

i. Coordinate and join regular working group meetings and calls, identifying points of intersection and bottlenecks, and helping to connect COP members with each other for assistance or support.

ii. Track project progress, outcomes, and bottlenecks for each working group’s project(s).

iii. Capture key takeaways and next steps from meetings and convenings.

iv. In partnership with C3, design and implement a feedback and engagement dashboard for each working group, and provide monthly updates.

v. Provide all input as needed on an ongoing basis for social media and COP groups for C3 team to update, etc.

c) Catalyzing the COP

i. Facilitate connections between COP participants and support members as needed for community activities.

ii. Support COP participants to connect their organization more deeply with the work of the COP.

d) Communicating with and for the community

i. Function as the primary point of contact for the groups internally and externally.

ii. Connect annually with each individual participant of the groups to understand their work, their organization, how the community can support the participant and their organization in service of shared goals, and how the participant and their organization can support and more strongly engage with the community.

iii. Keep community conversations vibrant and alive.

iv. Track working group projects and connect to work on the ground, examples, and transactions that can be included in broader lessons and learnings.

e) COP tracking & engagement

i. As the various network and other communities are established at C3, serve as a primary point of contact tracking all community nodes by way of common actors, goals, and convenings.

ii. Make connections between conversations and projects at different community nodes and groups and facilitate cross-dialogue and engagement as makes sense.

iii. Capture key results and achievements across community over time, drafting blog pieces and cover notes for COP projects and activities.

f) Event coordination

i. Coordinate with other C3 activities and events as required. We anticipate there to be 4-6 events annually.

ii. For meetings and events, work with community members to identify and secure in-kind contributions, including meeting locations, transportation, catering, materials, etc. For meetings and events with an allotted budget, the expectation would be to coordinate and manage the budget with the C3 team’s oversight.

Key Skills, Education, and Experience

a) Key skills

i. Strong interpersonal abilities, with a willingness to work with diverse people and groups.

ii. Solid facilitation and presentation skills.

iii. Exceptional attention to detail, along with strong organizational and time management skills.

iv. Dynamic problem-solving capability.

v. Comfortable with technology.

vi. Understands how and when to seek and receive help.

vii. Proactive, self-starter, loves to take initiative with urgency and an action orientation.

viii. Understands the big picture and larger context of the work, systems thinker.

b) Education and experience

i. Undergraduate degree with preferred graduate degree from a relevant field.

ii. 8-10 years of relevant work experience.

iii. Deal experience and at least 5 years in the field of impact investing.

iv. Experience either working with a funder, investor, or nonprofit organization.

v. Proficiency with computer systems and databases, experience with Salesforce preferred but not required.

Contract Terms

• This is a 12-month part-time contract, with the possibility for a contract renewal.
• This role is anticipated to range between 5-8 hours/week, with the heavier hours taking place when planning and delivering events. The right candidate will work in partnership with C3 to help develop the contractor role.
• The compensation for the role will be based on an hourly rate, depending on experience and location.
• The role is anticipated to require international travel up to 10%.
• The role is anticipated to be remote.
• The contractor’s SOW will be re-evaluated in partnership with C3 periodically to determine if changes should be implemented based on the evolution of the COP, and time and activities needed to achieve intended impacts.