Associate

About SNV Proximate What if you could combine the commercial rigour of consulting, investment, or corporate strategy with the opportunity to create meaningful development impact at scale? SNV ’s newly established impact capital accelerator aims to do exactly that: develop commercially viable solutions that generate both business value and development impact. Combining expertise in impact-driven finance and inclusive commercial value chains, SNV Proximate will operate with the pace, ambition, and commercial mindset of a boutique advisory firm while leveraging the reach, credibility, and market presence of a global development organisation. Working with companies, investors, development finance institutions, foundations, and governments, this is your chance to join the team that will design, test, and grow new approaches to mobilising investment, strengthening markets, and building more inclusive and resilient value chains across emerging economies. It is a place for people who are excited by building something new, comfortable operating across both commercial and development environments, and motivated by turning ambitious ideas into scalable results. Position overview SNV is building a commercial markets accelerator, which runs client engagements across two streams — impact-driven finance (IDF) and inclusive commercial value chains (ICVC). Associates are the delivery backbone of both. This role sits at the intersection of substantive client work and internal knowledge buildin