GRID Impact Is Hiring: 2 Key Remote Roles for the Women’s Financial Inclusion (WFI) Program
GRID Impact is recruiting for two part-time, contract roles within its Women’s Financial Inclusion (WFI) Program—an opportunity for professionals who care deeply about building safer, more inclusive financial systems for women around the world.
If you are motivated by evidence-driven change, feminist and equity-centered approaches, and the chance to work with an interdisciplinary, mission-driven team, these positions may be an exceptional fit.
The organization is hiring for:
- Global Fintech Innovation Challenge Lead – to run a two-year innovation challenge, coach selected financial service providers (FSPs), and translate evidence into practical tools for harm-reduction and trust-building.
- Senior Data Analyst (WFI) – to transform messy, multi-country datasets into clear insights, segmentation models, and decision tools for inclusive finance partners.
Both positions are remote-friendly, require steady overlap with GMT–MT time zones, and involve periodic travel for key convenings. Each role is structured as a part-time, year-long contract, well-suited for independent consultants or professionals seeking flexible, purpose-driven engagements. GRID strongly encourages applications from women, non-binary professionals, and candidates based in regions where the team works.
1. Global Fintech Innovation Challenge Lead (Women’s Financial Inclusion)
Contract type: Part-time, one-year minimum
Start date: ASAP
Location: Remote, with travel across Africa, Asia, and the United States
Deadline: 30 November 2025 (rolling review)
Purpose & Opportunity
This role leads a global, two-year initiative designed to reduce harm and build trust in women’s financial services. GRID Impact and Accion Ventures are launching a multi-stakeholder challenge to surface evidence-backed practices that improve women’s safety, confidence, and experience in financial systems. The Challenge Lead will design and execute the full process—from outreach and selection to post-selection support—and convert insights from demonstration models into practical tools for both FSPs and investors.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead all program elements: design criteria, facilitate outreach, manage applicant support, coordinate juries, oversee scoring, and ensure transparent selection processes.
- Manage a cohort of selected FSPs; scope technical assistance sprints to document replicable, harm-reduction practices.
- Synthesize qualitative and quantitative evidence into crisp case studies and co-develop a Financial Service Provider Playbook.
- Support the creation of an Investor Toolkit by translating FSP evidence into diligence questions, post-investment practices, and adoption mechanisms.
- Facilitate global workshops and learning sessions; represent GRID in high-level forums.
- Embed feminist, equity-centered, and harm-reduction principles in all decision-making and manage ethical risks across the portfolio.
Ideal Candidate
Applicants should have 8+ years of experience leading multi-country programs in inclusive finance, fintech, consumer protection, or customer experience, and a proven ability to run innovation challenges or accelerators. Strong candidates excel in facilitation, cross-partner coordination, evidence translation, program management, and feminist/ethics-centered design. Experience in African and Asian markets, applied behavioral or human-centered design, and multilingual fluency are added advantages.
2. Senior Data Analyst (Women’s Financial Inclusion)
Contract type: Part-time, one-year contract
Start date: ASAP
Location: Remote, with travel as needed
Deadline: 30 November 2025 (rolling review)
Purpose & Opportunity
The Senior Data Analyst will lead segmentation analyses and evidence synthesis for GRID Impact’s WFI portfolio across priority markets including Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Pakistan. The role requires comfort with heterogeneous data sources (household surveys, telco/DFS logs, MIS data, market scans) and the ability to move fluidly from rigorous technical work to clear, actionable insights for product, policy, and program teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct segmentation analyses—including k-means, hierarchical clustering, latent class analysis, or rule-based approaches—using multifaceted datasets.
- Build clean, maintainable pipelines using Python or R and SQL; document reproducible workflows.
- Generate insights on women’s financial access, usage, affordability, and consumer protection challenges.
- Develop dashboards (Tableau, Power BI, or Plotly) and lightweight MEL tools.
- Collaborate with researchers and designers to translate evidence into actionable recommendations.
- Ensure gender-intentional, ethical, and privacy-aware data practices.
Ideal Candidate
Candidates should bring 5–8+ years of applied analytics experience, fluency in Python or R, strong SQL skills, and a portfolio demonstrating messy data wrangling and defensible inference.
They must be excellent communicators with the ability to distill complex findings into sharp memos, visuals, or decision notes. Experience in WFI, inclusive finance, mobile money, or DFS ecosystems—especially in LMIC contexts—is essential.
Why GRID Impact?
Founded in 2014, GRID Impact is a mission-driven, research and innovation collective applying behavioral science and human-centered design to complex social and economic challenges. The organization has partnered with leading philanthropic and development actors including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Open Society Foundations, Mastercard Foundation, UNICEF, Mercy Corps, BRAC, and others.
GRID’s flexible model brings together independent consultants across disciplines to form high-performing teams for meaningful systems change. Members work remotely, collaborate across continents, and contribute to practical, evidence-driven solutions in financial inclusion, global health, equity, agriculture, energy, and more.
How to Apply
Submit a single email to [email protected] with the subject:
- “Global Fintech Innovation Challenge Lead – [Your Name]” or
- “Senior Data Analyst – [Your Name]”,
by 30 November 2025.
Application requirements mirror the detailed JD instructions for each role, including a résumé, work samples, and—where applicable—code samples and short written responses.
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