POSITION: Credit Operations Intern (Full Time)

LOCATION: Bogotá, Colombia

REPORTING TO: Director of Credit

BACKGROUND

Global Partnerships (GP) is an impact-first fund manager dedicated to expanding opportunity for people living in poverty. Impact-first investing means investing in a way that seeks the greatest possible social impact, while seeking to preserve capital with a modest financial return for investors. GP believes that impact-first investing has an essential role to play in advancing sustainable solutions to poverty for millions of people worldwide.

GP creates and manages impact-first investment funds that make loans and early-stage investments in social enterprises serving people living in poverty, primarily in Latin America and Africa. The GP team is comprised of mission-driven, dedicated, high-performing colleagues working primarily from offices in Seattle, Washington (USA), Bogotá, Colombia, and Nairobi, Kenya. To learn more about Global Partnerships, please visit our website at www.globalpartnerships.org.

ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Credit Operations Intern supports GP’s Social Investment Team (SIT) by executing established portfolio monitoring processes, maintaining high-quality data, producing routine reports, and making incremental improvements to existing tools and workflows. This is a hands-on role focused on accuracy, timeliness, and clear communication across teams. As an intern, you will be exposed to GP’s full investment cycle, learning about the impact investing space while sharpening your skills.

• Location: Bogotá regional office (hybrid)
• Reporting to: Director of Credit
• Type: 12-month Internship (full-time)
• Compensation: $2.5 million COP per month plus benefits

Core Responsibilities:

• Drive and promote a strong data-informed culture throughout GP and manage high-quality and flexible credit and investment data systems.
• Execute established portfolio data workflows: collect, validate, and upload partner financial/operational data on schedule.
• Maintain data integrity: monitor completeness, resolve discrepancies, and document fixes.
• Support the implementation of AI tools to make data collection and verification processes more efficient and effective.
• Produce recurring reports (internal/external) using existing templates and dashboards.
• Operate and maintain current analysis tools; propose well-scoped improvements when helpful.
• Coordinate with SIT and Operations to ensure timely inputs for closings, disbursements, and monitoring cycles.
• Track task status and deadlines; maintain process documentation and checklists.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Prepare portfolio and risk analyses using predefined metrics and queries. Contribute to analytical reports.
• Pilot process enhancements (e.g., template tweaks, automating a manual step) with guidance.

Core Capabilities:

• Strong operational skills including problem solving and strategic thinking.
• Highly organized and attentive to detail, with an ability to prioritize and stay focused on outcomes and project vision while adhering to tight reporting deadlines.
• Ability to quickly learn to use new software programs and translate these into business and portfolio/risk management requirements.
• Strong communication skills with a variety of personalities and cultures.
• Solid writing skills.
• Comfortable working autonomously in a dynamic, entrepreneurial environment.
• Embodies GP’s values as a dedicated, strategic, collaborative, aspirational learner, committed to excellence, and has a passion for GP’s mission to expand opportunity for people living in poverty.

Qualifications:

• A desire to make an impact in an organization working to expand opportunity for people living in poverty.
• Foundational knowledge of finance/accounting; familiarity with credit or risk concepts a plus.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Currently pursuing a bachelor’s in finance, Economics, or a related field (graduating until December 2026).
• Native or bilingual proficiency in English and Spanish required.
• Professional fluency French preferred.
• To be considered for this role, you must have the ability to legally work in Colombia (if applying to Bogotá) without visa sponsorship.

WHAT WE OFFER

Impact-First investment experience:

• Be an individual contributor where your voice counts to support the Credit and Investment teams of an industry-recognized Impact-First investment manager.
• The opportunity to drive the analytics, systems, data, and reporting tools that allow GP to maximize its Impact-First investment mandates.
• The space to innovate portfolio and risk analytics workstreams.
• Develop in-depth knowledge of social enterprises across Latin America, the Caribbean and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Competitive benefits and work-life balance:

• An organizational culture focused on a healthy work-life balance, with a hybrid working policy to maintain the benefits of in-person collaboration, whilst allowing for the flexibility of remote work.
• An organizational structure where your voice counts, and which is designed to maximize learning and collaboration, and minimize bureaucracy.

HOW TO APPLY

Required Application Documents (ENGLISH ONLY):

• Brief Cover letter
• Resume

Global Partnerships is an equal-opportunity employer.

Applications will be accepted, and candidates considered, until December 4, 2025. Qualified candidates will be interviewed on a rolling basis, so early applications are highly encouraged.

Due to the volume of applications, we will contact only those candidates selected for interviews – no follow-ups, please.

Finalists will be asked to submit references, including name, email, and phone number, of at least two former supervisors. All offers will be contingent upon reference checks as well as a background check.