26650 Impact Investing Sage

Opportunity

ArtsPond is seeking volunteer Impact Investing Sage to help shape our next chapter.

The Sage will serve as an on-call advisor for Hatch Open 2.0, a national effort to support more inclusive and accessible impact investing with equity and justice-deserving groups in the artistic, creative, and cultural industries across Canada from May 2026 to Jul 2028.

The role is designed for someone who enjoys shaping or sharing insights, perspectives, and sectoral knowledge without the expectation of day-to-day delivery.

Qualifications

Our desired qualifications include four or more of the following:

• 10+ years of experience or training in social innovation, social finance, impact investing, banking, accounting, philanthropy, social enterprise, or other related fields
• Deep understanding of diverse impact practices including evaluation and reporting of story-based or qualitative measures and quantitative outcomes
• Strong familiarity with emerging and established impact frameworks for social purpose enterprises in Canada and internationally, such as ESG (Environment, Social, Governance), SDG (Sustainable Development Goals), CIW (Canadian Index of Wellbeing), CAIM (Common Approach to Impact Measurement), EEF (Equitable Evaluation Framework), and more
• Maintain a broad professional network in Canada and internationally in impact evaluation and impact investing, and willing and able to recommened trusted practitioners that are emerging or established for deeper engagement
• Passion, curiosity, or interest in creative approaches to impact evaluation and impact investing in arts, culture, technology, and other creative fields
• Comfortable providing high-level, strategic guidance rather than hand’s-on delivery
• Ready to communicate complex ideas in plain language with clarity and care
• Align with values of justice, care, accessibility, shared leadership, and community accountability
• Self-identify as (or have extensive knowledge and experience working with) Deaf, Disabled, Francophone, Indigenous, Newcomer, New Generation (18 to 35 years), Outside the Core, Racialized, Women/Trans/Non-binary, 2SLGBTQIA+, Low-income gig worker, or other justice-deserving groups
• Reside in Canada

Responsibilities

The Sage will provide guidance and support as they are available, including any of the following:

• Recommend and suggest emerging and established professional in social finance, impact investing, and impact practice relevant to arts, culture, technology, and other creative fields
• Help identify who may be well-suited to be hired for deeper or longer-term support as the project involves
• Offer high-level feedback on impact investing risks, frameworks, and approaches
• Suggest relevant knowledge toolkits, case studies, community stories, and other resources that can help Deaf, Disabled, and other justice-deserving groups navigate impact investing topics in arts, culture, and technology for the first time
• Recommend ways to reduce barriers and strengthen connections and collaborations between creatives and impact invest
• Identify story-based impact evaluation questions for creatives in arts, culture, and technology that will attract impact investors, and vice versa
• Explore ways to link measures between impact frameworks from within and outside the arts, culture, and technology
• Offer advice on ways to adopt new technologies like AI in impact investing without threatening the creative vitality, integrity, or intellectual property of creators
• Other topics relevant to the scope of Hatch Open 2.0

Fit

This opportunity might be a good fit if you:

• Enjoy shaping complex financial systems, deepening awareness of social finance, impact investing, and values-aligned social enterprises
• Believe access is not an add-on, valuing disability justice, multilingual communication, and lived experience as vital to good leadership
• Cultivate the intersectionality of justice and care thoughtfully, stewarding complexity with sensitivity, courage, and long‑term vision rather than quick solutions.

This role is especially well‑suited to a senior, semi‑retired, or retired professional who wishes to share insight selectively and generously.

Commitment and Compensation

This is a volunteer, unpaid position only. The time commitment and schedule is flexible, shaped by interest and availability. Reimbursements are available for pre-approved expenses. This opportunity may lead to a paid position, pending availability of funding.

Apply

The desired deadline to apply is May 29, 2026. The posting will remain open until filled.

Please send a cover letter and curriculum vitae (or a 2.5 to 5-minute video) outlining your skills and interests related to the opportunity to:

Jessa Agilo, Founder, CEO
ArtsPond / Étang d’Arts
jobs@artspond.com

Please reference “26650 Impact Investing Sage” in the subject line.

About Us

ArtsPond is a changemaker of a different kind. Our mission is to nurture thriving ecosystems of care in all realms of life via the wisdom and creativity of arts and culture. Join our team and help deepen the power and promise of arts and culture-led social change and care in Canada. For more information, visit https://artspond.com/volunteer/

Our Impact

• Sharing stories | Shaping wisdoms
  Through collaborative storytelling, we shape and share wisdoms rooted in the lived experience of justice-deserving groups from the edge. Creative expression helps people navigate challenges and deepen empathy, care, and understanding. Examples include Access Art, aHa!, Caring Cultures, Gentrification Survey, I Love My Gig Ontario, Groundstory, and Together There.
• Sustaining ecosystems | Seeding platforms
  With collective impact, we sustain mutual aid ecosystems and seed open-source tools and technologies that help people, communities, and systems to thrive. Cooperation helps strengthen pathways to reciprocity, prosperity, and belonging. Examples include DigitalASO, Hatch Open, and Groundtrust.
  
• Settling crises
  In moments of uncertainty and urgency, we support creative solutions to complex challenges, from personal emergencies to global crises. Supporting basic needs helps impacted groups to survive while nurturing hope by adapting alternative futures that are vibrant, strong, and resilient. Examples include I Lost My Gig Canada and ThisSpace.

Access

We are committed to make this opportunity accessible to all regardless of circumstances. If you have access needs in order to apply for this opportunity, please let us know what you require at jobs@artspond.com.

ArtsPond is an equal opportunity organization. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for engagement without regard to age, ancestry, citizenship, creed (religion), colour, disability, ethnic origin, family status, gender identity or expression, place of origin, or race, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial, or local laws. We particularly encourage equity and justice-deserving groups including 2SLGBTQIA+, Deaf, Disabled, Indigenous, Newcomer, New Generation, Outside the Core, Racialized, Women/Trans/Nonbinary, and other diverse identities, cultures, and origins to apply.

While we thank all who take the time to apply, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.