The Investment Manager will play a central role in sourcing, evaluating, and managing investments in early-stage companies delivering both strong impact and financial returns.

Key Responsibilities:

• Deal Sourcing: Identify and cultivate relationships with relevant startups, accelerators/incubators, and investors across Africa.
• Due diligence: Lead due diligence processes, including market analysis, financial modeling, impact assessment, risk evaluation etc. Develop Investment Memos (IMs) to present to IC.
• Portfolio Management: Support portfolio companies post-investment through strategic guidance, fundraising support, impact assessments, and to build traction/use cases in humanitarian markets in coordination with IRC’s Country Programs/technical teams.
• Strategy: Contribute to deepened sector mapping and refining investment theses across Airbel Ventures’ focus sector, sub sectors and verticals.
• Partnerships & Ecosystem Engagement: Represent Airbel Ventures in regional investor networks/events/conferences, strengthening our visibility and partnerships in the African venture ecosystem.
• Other Support: Support the CEO on fundraising, overall portfolio strategy, and internal stakeholder engagement within the IRC.
• The Investment Manager is expected to leverage AI tools strategically to enhance work effectiveness and efficiency in research and analysis, ensuring all AI-generated content is reviewed for accuracy, quality, and alignment with the IRC’s mission and values.

Job Requirements:

• 6–10 years of experience in venture capital, impact investing, development finance, or management consulting (with exposure to early-stage investing).
• Strong financial analysis skills, including financial modeling skills.
• Strong analytical skills, with extensive experience of managing due diligence processes from sourcing to closing. 
• Demonstrated interest in impact investing and innovation for underserved or frontier markets.
• Experience within the African startup ecosystems and comfort working across diverse sectors and geographies. Strong networks across the African startup ecosystem.
• Excellent communication and relationship management skills.
• Entrepreneurial mindset, high independence, and ability to thrive in an early-stage team environment. At the same time, ability to drive execution, navigating multiple internal stakeholder segments within a large global NGO.
• Master’s degree in finance, business, economics, or related field preferred