Sr. Principal, Social Impact Funds

Overview

Since our founding in 1924, we've cut cardiovascular disease deaths in half, but there is still so much more to do. To overcome today’s biggest health challenges and accelerate this progress, we need passionate individuals like you. Join our movement, be part of the progress, and help ensure a healthier future for all. You matter, and so does the impact you can make with us.

 

The American Heart Association has an excellent opportunity for a Senior Principal at the American Heart Association’s Social Impact Funds!

 

This position can be home-based.

 

This is a full-time, benefits-eligible, grant-funded opportunity. Current funding will expire on March 1, 2027, with the possibility of extension.

 

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

 

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Responsibilities

The Social Impact Fund works across the social drivers of health, focusing on impact in three core areas: healthcare access and quality, food security, and economic empowerment. The Principal/Senior Principal of Social Impact Funds will play a critical leadership role within the Social Impact Funds’ mission-driven investment strategy, working at the intersection of capital deployment and measurable health outcomes.

 

This position leads origination, structuring, execution, and oversight of investments (equity, debt, grants, hybrid) in organizations focused on the social drivers of health. This includes prospecting and conducting due diligence on new investments, as well as evaluating performance/outcomes. Additionally, it involves onboarding, facilitating, and managing partners, as well as ensuring compliance with Association grant or investment requirements. The Principal/Senior Principal will collaborate across internal teams and with external partners (institutional investors, foundations, intermediaries, social enterprises) to ensure the Association’s Social Impact Funds deliver both mission-aligned and financially sustainable results.Key Responsibilities:

 

• Source and originate high-quality investment opportunities that align with both financial return and measurable health impact.
• Lead rigorous due diligence and investment structuring: financial modelling, impact modelling, risk assessment, term sheet negotiation, legal documentation, and closing. Present potential Investments for approval by Investment Committee.
• Manage and monitor an investment portfolio: track performance (financial and impact), identify and mitigate risks, ensure governance, compliance and reporting.
• Act as a board member or board observer for investee entities as needed; support portfolio companies/organizations with strategic guidance, value creation and impact measurement.
• Engage and build relationships with key stakeholders: Association leadership, funders, co-investors, philanthropic capital, government partners, social enterprises and mission-driven entrepreneurs.
• Collaborate with the Association’s strategy, policy, measurement & evaluation teams to refine impact measurement frameworks, ensure data integrity, and ensure that investment outcomes are aligned with long-term health outcomes and goals.
• Represent the Association externally at industry conferences, panels and working groups; build the brand of Social Impact Funds in the broader impact investing ecosystem.
• Contribute to fundraising and capital deployment strategy: support preparation of investor materials, participate in capital raising efforts, and actively manage fund flows and deployment pace.

 

 

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• Five (5) plus years of professional experience in impact investing, private equity, venture capital, debt finance, structured investments, or a hybrid financial/mission-driven capital role.
• Demonstrated success in sourcing, executing, and managing investments (ideally in the health, social sector, or mission-driven space).
• Strong financial modelling and investment analysis skills; ability to assess business models, rate of return, risk/return trade-offs, and prepare compelling investment memos.
• Experience