Training Program & Job Announcement
Position Title: Investment Analyst
Status: Full Time; Exempt
Reports To: Director of Investments
Location: Remote, US
Salary: $85,000 - $100,000 annually
Full-Time Role Start Date: February 2027
Training Program Start Date: November 2026
**Important Application Notes: Please have your resume and cover letter ready to upload into this form. Beyond those attachments, this application should take 30-45 minutes to complete. We encourage you to keep open-ended answers concise and showcasing who you uniquely are. There are two pages to this application: Application Questions and Demographic Questions. Please review the below summary and the full job posting (located here: (https://tinyurl.com/j8hrpk45) prior to applying.
Position Summary
The Investment Analyst is a key member of Orchid Capital Collective’s investment team, responsible for supporting the full arc of Orchid’s integrated capital work, from sourcing and evaluating prospective borrowers to stewarding portfolio partners through non-financial support. Reporting to the Director of Investments, the Investment Analyst brings both analytical rigor and relational depth to the work, helping ensure that Orchid’s investment processes are efficient, values-aligned, and responsive to the communities we serve.
This role sits at the intersection of investment analysis and portfolio services and is well-suited for someone with experience in community finance or impact investing who is committed to reproductive justice, racial equity, and economic justice, and who is excited to build systems and relationships in a growing, mission-driven fund. Please see the full job posting for further details here: https://tinyurl.com/j8hrpk45
Training Program Requirement for this Role
Please note that the selected candidate for this job role would be required to go through a 3-month training program prior to employment as part of a longer application process. This training program precedes full-time employment with Orchid Capital Collective and is conducted by our recruitment and training agency partner, Venture Partners, in partnership with Boston Impact Initiative. Given the key hire nature of this role, candidates should treat the training program as an extended application & interview process. The selected candidate should expect to spend approximately 10 hours per week during this training period both synchronous and asynchronously with Venture Partners and the associated training material.
*Timeline & Important Dates*
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October 15, 2026 at 11:59pm PT: Application portal closes
October 19 - November 15, 2026: Interview rounds conducted by VP x Orchid Capital Collective to select final candidate
November 15, 2026 - January 31, 2027: 3-month training program completed by selected candidate. This training program precedes full-time employment with Orchid Capital Collective and is conducted by recruitment and training agency partner, Venture Partners. Given the key hire nature of this role, candidates should treat the training program as an extended application & interview process. The selected candidate should expect to spend approximately 10 hours per week during this training period.
February 1, 2027: Candidates start full-time role with Orchid Capital Collective
**Please note that the training program is provided free of cost to all selected fellows. The employment following training is salaried with employee benefits including healthcare.
Who Are We Looking For?
We are looking for someone who brings both analytical rigor and genuine values alignment to this work. The ideal candidate has experience reviewing financial documents — balance sheets, income statements, cash flow projections — and knows how to ask the right questions of the data and translate concerns into clear written communication. Equally important is exceptional organizational discipline: this role manages many moving pieces across multiple organizations simultaneously, and we need someone who proactively tracks what's due, follows up without being asked, and communicates early when something needs attention. You don't need to be a seasoned investment professional — but you do need to be a strong and curious learner who can build fluency in community finance quickly.
Beyond the technical, we are looking for someone with a deep, personal commitment to reproductive justice, racial equity, and gender justice — not as a professional credential, but as a lived orientation. You should be genuinely comfortable with and connected to the full spectrum of reproductive health and rights, including abortion access and LGBTQ+ communities. Orchid is a small, remote, startup-stage fund led by Black women, and we are looking for someone who can operate with care and directness in that kind of culture — someone who speaks up, manages up, and shows up fully, even when things are hard.
If selected to advance by Orchid Capital Collective, you will enter our training program preceeding your employment and be exposed to various models of decentralized finance that challenge the status quo of money movement. The curriculum is both intellectually, and introspectively challenging, and intended to facilitate personal and subsequently professional transformation in the way you subsequently interact with systems of capital.
Overview:
Our training program consists of four components. Beyond the didactic education parts listed below, candidates should expect to also receive onboarding support prior to starting full-time with Orchid Capital Collective, and mentorship from Venture Partners through their first year of employment.
- Identity, Relationship to Community & Capital, IKIGAI
Candidates begin by examining something most finance training skips entirely: themselves. This section explores each fellow's personal history with money, wealth, and scarcity — what Venture Partners calls the "trauma of money" — and how those experiences shape the way practitioners approach capital allocation decisions. Candidates map their 8 facets of identity and examine how race, class, gender, culture, and lived experience show up in professional contexts, including inside the organizations they'll be working in. They study community, power-building, and solidarity as foundations for financial practice, and use the IKIGAI framework alongside the Two Loops model of change to identify their optimal role in moving capital differently — not just as employees, but as practitioners with a specific vantage point and a specific kind of contribution to make. By the time this section concludes, candidates know why they're doing this work, not just how.
2. Macro-Economic Theory
Candidates receive what Venture Partners calls "Not Your Average Econ 101" — a historical and comparative survey of economic systems that mainstream finance training rarely touches. Beginning with indigenous and pre-colonial economies and moving through mercantilism, industrial capitalism, and post-capitalist frameworks, fellows develop a working understanding of how economies are constructed, who they have served, and what alternatives have existed and continue to exist. Candidates study the building blocks of different economic systems — how capital flows, who controls it, how credit and lending markets emerged, and where wealth concentration comes from — and are tasked with understanding these systems on their own terms before critiquing them. The goal is not ideological: it's analytical. Candidats who complete this section can situate any fund, investment thesis, or financial institution within a larger historical and structural context, which makes them sharper practitioners across every asset class and deployment strategy.
3. Technical Underwriting for Grants, Debt & Equity Investments
This is the section where candidates build the technical toolkit. Venture Partners walks fellows through the full underwriting cycle — sourcing, screening, and due diligence — for three distinct capital types: philanthropic grants (including trust-based, PRIs, and MRIs), debt and lending instruments (including CDFI lending, revenue-based financing, and community loan funds), and equity investments. Critically, the curriculum doesn't just teach the mechanics — it teaches candidates to see the assumptions embedded in each process: what counts as creditworthiness and why, where implicit bias enters screening criteria, and how risk is defined differently depending on who's doing the defining. Candidates complete practical exercises modeling on real deal structures, producing investment memos and credit analyses that reflect both technical rigor and a justice-informed analytical lens. Candidates should expect to go into Orchid Capital Collective with the ability to sit in an investment committee meeting and engage substantively — not someone learning on the job from scratch.
4. Solidarity Economy, Restorative Finance Frameworks & Local and Global Case Studies
In the final section, candidates study the solidarity economy not as a theory but as a living, documented reality. Through case studies drawn from local, national, and global contexts, they examine the organizations and models that are already redirecting capital toward shared ownership, community self-determination, and economic repair: cooperatives, community land trusts, PRECs, CDFIs, revenue-based financing vehicles, donor-advised funds structured for equity, and shifting-power grantmaking models, among others. Fellows engage with frameworks including Doughnut Economics, Circular Economy models, Just Transition theory, and Wellbeing Economy principles — understanding how each one reframes what an economy is for and what success looks like. The Restorative Finance thread runs throughout: what does it mean to deploy capital in ways that actively repair rather than replicate historical harm? Candidates leave this section with at least one concrete, actionable way to move capital differently from within their specific role — going into Orchid Capital Collective with analytical and strategic thinking.
Deadline:
October 15, 2026 at 11:59 pm PT