Associate, Public Sector Practice

About Us
Social Finance is a national nonprofit and registered investment adviser expanding economic opportunity in America. We bring government, philanthropy, and business leaders together to improve systems and put capital to work in new ways. Since our founding in 2011, we have mobilized more than $500 million to create measurable results in workforce and education, health, and housing.
We are driven by the belief that social and economic systems should enable all people to thrive, and the conviction that we can create the most meaningful and measurable change in our communities when governments and markets work together. Our organization is built upon five core values: people, performance, integrity, collaboration, and inclusion.
Our work spans four areas: Impact-first Investing, Workforce and Education Investments, Advisory & Public Sector Practice, and the Social Finance Institute. Our Impact-first Investment team designs, launches, and manages investments that provide solutions for effectively deploying impact capital across a range of social outcomes. Our Workforce and Education Investments team designs, launches and manages financial solutions focused on addressing workforce challenges, including skills acquisition and training access. Our Advisory team partners with government and philanthropy leaders to implement data-driven programs for advancing social impact. And through the Social Finance Institute, we aim to build the field and change systems through actionable research, communities of practice, and educational outreach.
The Public Sector Practice
Through our Public Sector practice, we work alongside impact-focused leaders to build innovative funding structures and implement data-driven practices that deliver better results for people and communities.
Role and Responsibilities
This Associate, Public Sector position is based in either our Boston, MA, Washington D.C, San Francisco, CA or Austin, TX office. Associates of the Public Sector are an integral part of the Social Finance team and are staffed to multiple Advisory projects that span our various service offerings. Working together with a team, key activities may include:
Public Sector Projects
Conduct research, analyzing data, and reviewing evidence to support project design decisions, test hypotheses, and drive recommendations to optimize operations and help achieve project outcomes
Exercise progressing project management skills to include scheduling meetings, aiding in the execution of work plans, overseeing project timelines, coordinating team tasks, and ensuring effective communication within the team.
Create, deliver and present materials, analyses, key findings and recommendations for both internal team and external partners; Lead interviews and facilitate discussion groups
Conduct economic cost-benefit and other forms of analyses
Support the drafting and review of contract, governance and scope-of-work documents; Write summaries, reports and email correspondence, etc.
Research potential project partners; analyzing their performance and ability to achieve future outcomes to identify promising programs and support project design
Collaborate with evaluation firms, when needed, to identify and measure key performance outcomes
Field Building
Write blog posts and support the creation of white papers and reports that publish key learnings and findings from our work