This role will develop and lead all of Light a Single Candle's (LASC) Income Generation work. The focus is primarily international but will have some application in St. Louis.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Design and implement a scalable and replicable income-generation model tailored to the communities we serve
- Support Implementing Partners to identify, research, and evaluate successful income-generating projects along with strategy execution
- Build and document processes, systems, and tools to support income-generating work within our projects
- Collaborate with internal team members to ensure alignment, resources and operational integration of new initiatives
- Lead pilots, assess feasibility, and manage risk on new income generation strategies
- Analyze historic organizational data to understand past efforts, both successful and failed, and use insights to inform future strategies
- Assist our Partners in Creating business plans and return on investment (ROI) projections for potential earned income streams for each community
- Build an integrated measurement and evaluation framework including benchmarks to track financial and impact performance of income-generating initiatives across all Partner portfolios on income generation projects
- Define clear key performance indicators (KPI) and create data dashboards to communicate progress and learning with leadership and stakeholders
- Support all income generation projects from the schedule design to the completion of the project to include a final statement of the sustainability and ROI on the project
- Compile and analyze cost benefit analysis documents for each project
- Develop and nurture relationships with Partners and project managers on each project
- Implement a process to confirm the actual net incremental income by Partner at the end of each year to confirm accuracy and learnings
- Track the execution of income projections year over year with the annual results, while comparing them to results at the end of the proposed project time frame
- Intervene with Partners and Implementing Partners as needed to achieve the
income generation results - Actively learn and research opportunities for income generation potential and propose to others for feedback and implementation
Additional Expectations:
- Candidate will reside in St. Louis, MO region and work out of the Chesterfield, MO office
- The LASC team members work together predominantly from our office, remote work exceptions are occasional or as needed
- Understands the role of LASC and philanthropic organizations as a supportive and long-term relationship with its Partners
- Assist the President and Executive Director of the foundation as requested and perform additional duties as necessary
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree required
- 3-5 years' experience in International Program Development
- High math and organizational skills
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a proven track record of building or scaling business
- Strong measurement and evaluation experience, particularly in tracking performance across financial, operational, and social impact metrics
- Excellent computer skills, including Excel spreadsheet proficiency
- Demonstrated ability to research best practices from similar organizations
- Excellent process development and organizational design skills
- Strong relationship-building and interpersonal communication skills, with experience managing external stakeholders and partnerships
- Proactive, adaptable, and highly self-directed toward action
- Ability to present data and findings to LASC Leadership team and Partners
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
Personal Characteristics:
- Compassion for serving the poor coupled with a commitment to support their potential
- Embraces a model of empowerment, accountability, partnership, and hope in executing the work of sustainable poverty recovery
- Self-motivated, works well independently, and desires to participate in creating a positive team environment
- Excellent verbal, written, and follow-up skills
- Strong and professional work ethic, flexible, and adaptive to change
- Enjoys networking and identifying solutions in response to challenges
- Can manage and succeed in providing support to multiple projects & partners simultaneously
- Willingness to lead as needed within LASC and through the role with our Partners
Wage and Benefits:
- Will be competitive and dependent upon earnings history, skills and qualifications.
- This first time role has a salary range of $90,000-$110,000
- Paid vacation and holidays, health insurance, and retirement plan benefits included
