About Tideline:

Tideline is a specialist consulting firm that provides expert impact investing advice and has played a foundational role in building the field since the firm’s inception in 2014. Our mission is to enable leading investors to integrate and deliver impact with confidence, and our vision is a world that expects and trusts in the ability of all financial capital to contribute to a just society and thriving planet. To that end, our services include impact management strategy, implementation, and research and thought leadership.

Tideline has completed more than 200 projects for clients deploying over $200B in impact capital. With services focused on strategy and implementation, the firm supports impact investing platforms, programs, and vehicles globally across themes and sectors. Past clients have included diverse leading global asset owners, asset managers, and service providers active in impact investing across a variety of asset classes and sectors. 

Impact is a guiding force for everything that we do – how we interact with clients, conduct ourselves as a business, and work with each other as teammates. We strive to deliver integral, field-leading work for our clients while also providing to the market an aspirational model of what a more regenerative business can look like.

Tideline is a remote-first team with hubs in New York City and Portland, Oregon.

About the position:

This is a unique opportunity for an early-career individual (the majority of our analysts have 1-3 years of post-bachelors experience in either work or graduate school) to gain exposure to impact investing and strategy consulting. The Analyst will gain diverse experience playing an important role in Tideline’s consulting services, through executing research and analysis, producing client-facing materials, and supporting project coordination and management, among other responsibilities.

Core responsibilities:

Project coordination, research, and materials development (85%):

• Performing research and analysis related to client projects, including literature reviews, summaries of findings, participation in expert interviews, etc.

• Developing client-facing materials, including PowerPoint presentations and written reports

• Leading scheduling and supporting project and client management for projects 

• Supporting quantitative analysis and modeling efforts for client projects (as applicable given candidate experience)

• Contributing to team meetings, brainstorming, and project planning

Operational and business development support (15%):

• Performing research to inform business development and operational efforts, as needed

• Supporting the drafting of proposals and other business development materials

• Working with other team members to address internal / operational priorities, as needed 

Qualifications:

The ideal candidate has a collaborative disposition; is analytical and driven to learn; is exceptionally well-organized with an eye for detail; communicates well; and is committed to advancing social and environmental goals. Every member of the team embodies our firm’s values: Compassion, community, integrity, and adaptability.

Minimum qualifications include:

• Commitment to Tideline’s values, as articulated in our DE&I Statement and Community Agreement (see pp. 49-52 of our Milestone Report).

• Bachelor’s degree

• Strong written and oral communication skills

• Skilled at and affinity for research

• Ability to think critically and creatively

• Demonstrated ability to exercise initiative, sound judgment, and discretion

• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills

• Sense of humor and self-awareness 

• Ability to manage multiple tasks with high attention to detail and organization

• Adept at using Microsoft Office and Google Suite

• Eligibility to work in the US indefinitely without employer sponsorship

• Adaptable and self-motivated to work on a small (~10-person), remote-first team

We are also looking for candidates who are interested in and capable of developing the following skills, experience, or knowledge areas:

• Knowledge of impact investing, finance, and/or philanthropy

• Knowledge of impact measurement and management 

• Experience in consulting, impact investing, finance, mission-driven work, and/or research 

• Financial / quantitative analysis experience 

• Strong design sensibilities 

Hiring Process FAQs:

• What are some of the benefits and perks of working at Tideline?

  • A professional development stipend is available for every employee to use towards improving their expertise and soft skills.

  • Beyond providing a work laptop, we have a “Work From Home” stipend available for employees to help make their home working space better.

  • Retreats: We hold retreats every year where team members get together in a beautiful location to brainstorm and just have a fun time.

  • We close the office for the last week of December so everyone can enjoy time with family and friends during the holiday season.

  • Every other Friday is a "Free Friday"

  • We have a wellness stipend that you can use to contribute to personal wellness activities like mental health care, meditation, or fitness

  What will the hiring process look like?

  Looking for a new job can be a daunting experience. Our approach is based in empathy and a desire for candidates to have a good experience. We want to give everyone an opportunity to display their strengths through their answers to our questions.

  Our timeline from application close date (note that this may be up to 3 weeks from your application date!) to decision typically takes 6-8 weeks for junior roles. We try to move things along as quickly as possible, but sometimes schedules get in the way (and we aim to be considerate of yours as well!). We make every effort to communicate consistently and transparently through each step of the process.

  For this role, applications are currently set to close on February 2nd. You can expect to hear from us between Feb 10th and Feb 17th about whether you will be invited to interview for the role. The first step will be a short screening interview (about 25 minutes), and during that interview we will also make sure to give you an overview of the hiring process.

  Following the screening interview, we expect to have 2 rounds of interviews as well as a case exercise stage.

  Please do not reach out to our team over LinkedIn during or about the hiring process. We love hearing from you! But we are committed to a fair and unbiased process, which means we want to have every candidate come into the process on equal footing, and while we'd love to speak to every single applicant 1:1, we are a small team that does not have the capacity to do that.

  How would you describe your culture?

  • Collaborative, inclusive, and passionate. We encourage all team members to be their full selves at work. As a relatively small team, there are a lot of opportunities to have your voice heard. Our structure is relatively flat.

  What’s your commitment to DEI to life in culture and workplace?

  • We have an internal DE&I working group that is committed to improving DE&I practices, culture, and employee experience. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are core tenets of our culture and we place a heavy emphasis on constantly learning and improving our own understanding of what that means for our business. At Tideline, we believe that compassion, equity, diversity, and inclusion are fundamental to our success. Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion manifests in three key ways:

    • The mission and vision of Tideline and its sister company, BlueMark-- Our firm’s vision of shared, sustainable prosperity is inseparably rooted in the credo of a diverse, equitable, and inclusive world.

    • How we conduct ourselves as an employer -- Tideline is an equal opportunity employer, and we value the unique contributions of each of our team members. Through our hiring, mentoring, and managing, we encourage our team to bring their full selves and individuality to our work.

    • How we use our influence -- In our work with clients, we strive to be an enabling force in the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within our society.