Our Vision
A movement of Northern Indigenous entrepreneurs who are innovating solutions to strengthen economic resilience and community wellbeing for generations to come.

Our Purpose
To advance thought leadership on business education and financial practices that honours Indigenous knowledge systems, creates social change, and generates new economic pathways.

Our Mission
Empowering Indigenous entrepreneurs to build sustainable businesses and livelihoods across the North.

Our Change Theory
We believe that Northern Indigenous entrepreneurs can become catalysts of prosperity and drivers of social change within their own communities, and that the development of sustainable enterprises can create local economic opportunities to help break through poverty, address social challenges, and strengthen Northern ways of life. 

The development and implementation of an Impact Fund is part of our Four Directions of Change Theory to secure long-term funding that flows impact capital into the North and uplifts those catalyzing transformative change; and our impact goal to spearhead investments into Indigenous businesses that deepen economic reconciliation and justice across Northern communities.

The Role
EntrepreNorth is designing and implementing a transformative impact fund that will invest in Northern Indigenous entrepreneurs in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. Our intention is to create a patient capital impact fund that honours Indigenous worldviews and values in order to reimagine capital. 

The Impact Fund Catalyst will play a key and dynamic role in ensuring this impact fund is a success. They will work alongside EntrepreNorth’s Project Directors, Impact Fund Manager, and Impact Fund Analyst to support the fund’s implementation and impact measurements. They will work closely with Indigenous entrepreneurs and investors, bringing them together to catalyze the flow of patient capital into the hands of Northern Indigenous entrepreneurs and helping them to scale their businesses and impact in a good way. 

Role and Responsibilities:

• Conduct community outreach, build relationships with entrepreneurs, and engage with EntrepreNorth’s alumni network to understand their financial and business development needs. 
• Collaborate with the Impact Fund Manager and Analyst to develop and implement decolonized impact fund policies, focusing on self-determination and agency for Indigenous entrepreneurs, while managing and assessing potential investment deals.
• Support the due diligence process by conducting background and community  research and analysis, and assisting with  investment memos.
• Proactively identify, assess, and pursue impact investment opportunities that align with the fund's mission and financial objectives, ensuring a steady flow of deals to meet capital deployment targets.
• Support the design and coordinate investment readiness, business mentorship, coaching, and post-investment supports for investees, including organizing community-building opportunities and events.
• Source, evaluate, negotiate, and structure impact investment deals to drive positive social and environmental outcomes.
• Foster ecosystem connections by building relationships with mission-aligned investors and funders, and support the impact fund raising and capital deployment processes.
• Represent EntrepreNorth in impact investment governance, advisory committees, and knowledge sharing circles, while supporting the creation of impactful reports and stories, and gathering learnings to demonstrate the fund’s value and sustainability.

Strengths and Experience

• 3-5 years of relevant professional work experience
• Past entrepreneurial and business development experience is an asset
• A desire or demonstrated ability to develop strengths in business, finance, and marketing
• Excellent communicator who creates and develops effective relationships with entrepreneurs, partners, and communities

The ideal candidate must:​

• Have a keen interest in social finance, impact investing, and entrepreneurship
• Value Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing
• Collaborate and work well with others
• Have a desire to empower and support entrepreneurs
• Recognize pathways to scale businesses
• Be ready and willing to learn on the job 
• Be self-motivated and driven by impact