Job Description : Senior Associate for Microfinance Consulting in Africa
Established in 2002, Intellecap is one of the fastest growing strategic services firm in the international development sector. Intellecap aims to build intellectual capital dedicated to facilitating investments into socially motivated businesses and to assist these businesses in becoming more profitable and achieving greater scale through consulting and advisory inputs. Working in both indirect strategic advisory roles and direct design and execution modes, Intellecap leverages its understanding of mainstream, profit oriented business models to create unique solutions that generate both financial and sustainable social returns. Intellecap connects to the social space through its emphasis on field exposure to its team, as well as by ideating and incubating innovative adaptations of mainstream, profitable solutions to address the broader challenges of businesses in development.
Intellecap is looking for team members for its Business Advisory (BA) practice. The BA practice focuses on:
a. Supporting business models that emerge from the BOP (e.g. microfinance) to achieve scale and faster integration with the mainstream through better business plans, market intelligence and process excellence;
b. Support mainstream businesses and corporations engage better with the BOP markets either on their own or through partnerships with localized BOP-centric businesses.
Please visit our website (www.intellecap.com) to know more.
The details of the vacancy are given below:
Position: Senior Associate
Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Experience/ Education:
• 3-5 years in banking/microfinance, an exposure to consulting is preferred;
• MBA from a premier B-School;
• Previous experience in Nigeria/ West Africa preferred.
Skills:
• An understanding of the microfinance space, ability to apply the knowledge to a new country and environment;
• Experience of microfinance operations and/or consulting, with a focus on institutional development including various functional areas such as Operational Efficiency Management, Delinquency Management, New product Development etc;
• Excellent communication skills;
• Strategic thinking for business development.
Job responsibilities:
• Providing on ground operational support to Intellecap's clients in Nigeria, while coordinating with other team members in India;
• Undertaking Business Development in this new geography while being a critical member of the delivery team;
• Building on relationships with potential and existing national and international clients;
• Represent Intellecap in Nigeria for a two-year period, and undertake relevant international field travel as and when required.
Please address your applications to Ms. Shree Ravindranath with a cover letter and detailed up-to-date resume to: jobs@intellecap.com
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Showing posts with label Development Sector. Show all posts
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Project Manager - Online
Project Manager
Established in 2002, Intellecap is one of the fastest growing strategic services firm in the international development sector. Intellecap aims to build intellectual capital dedicated to facilitating investments into socially motivated businesses and to assist these businesses in becoming more profitable and achieving greater scale through consulting and advisory inputs. Working in both indirect strategic advisory roles and direct design and execution modes, Intellecap leverages its understanding of mainstream, profit oriented business models to create unique solutions that generate both financial and sustainable social returns. Intellecap connects to the social space through its emphasis on field exposure to its team, as well as by ideating and incubating innovative adaptations of mainstream, profitable solutions to address the broader challenges of businesses in development.
Intellecap values success across various parameters: social, environmental and financial, thus attempting to achieve a multiple bottom line itself. The company is fast expanding its presence in areas such as provision of clean water, education, organic produce, green energy and clean technology to name a few others. Please visit our website (www.intellecap.com) to know more.
Position: Project Manager
Location: Mumbai, India
Overview: The incumbent would lead a small team on a project for managing online content and community for a portal focused on affordable education for low-income segment. The portal/website would be positioned as a global neutral platform that is reputable, openly accessible and has widespread participation from the community. She/he will be required to manage the team, establish processes for the project and liaise effectively with stakeholders.
A key area of focus for the Project Manager would be effectively designing strategies for and managing the community in the education sector through better communication and subtle marketing tactics. This would include the understanding and effective usage of social media such as blogs, discussions forums, online media. The Manager would also work towards developing additional leads to support the firm's foray in the education sector.
Experience/ Education:
* Project Management experience preferably in a client-facing capacity;
* 3-5 years or more relevant experience of online content or online community management;
* Strong understanding or previous experience in the education sector (strongly preferred);
* Relevant Graduate/ Post Graduate Degree from a reputed Indian/International institution.
Established in 2002, Intellecap is one of the fastest growing strategic services firm in the international development sector. Intellecap aims to build intellectual capital dedicated to facilitating investments into socially motivated businesses and to assist these businesses in becoming more profitable and achieving greater scale through consulting and advisory inputs. Working in both indirect strategic advisory roles and direct design and execution modes, Intellecap leverages its understanding of mainstream, profit oriented business models to create unique solutions that generate both financial and sustainable social returns. Intellecap connects to the social space through its emphasis on field exposure to its team, as well as by ideating and incubating innovative adaptations of mainstream, profitable solutions to address the broader challenges of businesses in development.
Intellecap values success across various parameters: social, environmental and financial, thus attempting to achieve a multiple bottom line itself. The company is fast expanding its presence in areas such as provision of clean water, education, organic produce, green energy and clean technology to name a few others. Please visit our website (www.intellecap.com) to know more.
Position: Project Manager
Location: Mumbai, India
Overview: The incumbent would lead a small team on a project for managing online content and community for a portal focused on affordable education for low-income segment. The portal/website would be positioned as a global neutral platform that is reputable, openly accessible and has widespread participation from the community. She/he will be required to manage the team, establish processes for the project and liaise effectively with stakeholders.
A key area of focus for the Project Manager would be effectively designing strategies for and managing the community in the education sector through better communication and subtle marketing tactics. This would include the understanding and effective usage of social media such as blogs, discussions forums, online media. The Manager would also work towards developing additional leads to support the firm's foray in the education sector.
Experience/ Education:
* Project Management experience preferably in a client-facing capacity;
* 3-5 years or more relevant experience of online content or online community management;
* Strong understanding or previous experience in the education sector (strongly preferred);
* Relevant Graduate/ Post Graduate Degree from a reputed Indian/International institution.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Innovative foundation - NGO (2+ years)
An innovative foundation (NGO) that exists to be a home for start up social entrepreneurs in India. It finds, funds and supports exceptional individuals to enable them to develop as leaders, start up sustainable, high-impact initiatives, and prepare their fledgling organisations for further investment.
Job Profile:
The candidate will be responsible to provide non-financial support to the NGO's Level 1 investees.
Within this, your specific responsibilities will be as following:
* Support investees
* Provide ongoing coaching and advisory support to investees
* Connect investees with peers, mentors and investors
* Organise workshops, networking events, residential retreats, peer learning groups as required
* Monitor the use of the finances provided within the incubation support
* Evaluate (a) the growth of the investee, (b) the impact of their project on the community and (c) the contribution of UnLtd India's support to their success.
You will also play an active role in the related operations of scouting and selection of new investees. Please note that you will carry out these activities in collaboration with other members of Incubation Support team. Within this, the responsibilities will be as following:
Scouting for new investees
* Devise and implementing an outreach strategy to find potential investees
* Build relationships with organisations that can provide a pipeline of investees
* Organise the outreach activities
* Selection of new investees
* Carry out initial assessment of interested applicants to check if they meet the required basic criteria
* Collate information from potential investees for our selection committee
* Organise selection panels with external panelists
Background, skills etc
We are looking for the following skills, experience and qualities:
• At least two years' experience of working in a corporate, start-up or high quality development organisation
• A strong grasp of at least two of the following areas – strategy setting, business and financial planning, governance, legal structures and team building
• Excellent relationship building skills
• An ability to thrive in an fast-growing, entrepreneurial environment
• Passionate about social change
• Fluent English & Hindi
• Eligible to work in India
Please email your CV (no longer than 2 pages) and a brief cover letter explaining your motivation to work with the NGO to dcosta.francis@gmail.com
Job Profile:
The candidate will be responsible to provide non-financial support to the NGO's Level 1 investees.
Within this, your specific responsibilities will be as following:
* Support investees
* Provide ongoing coaching and advisory support to investees
* Connect investees with peers, mentors and investors
* Organise workshops, networking events, residential retreats, peer learning groups as required
* Monitor the use of the finances provided within the incubation support
* Evaluate (a) the growth of the investee, (b) the impact of their project on the community and (c) the contribution of UnLtd India's support to their success.
You will also play an active role in the related operations of scouting and selection of new investees. Please note that you will carry out these activities in collaboration with other members of Incubation Support team. Within this, the responsibilities will be as following:
Scouting for new investees
* Devise and implementing an outreach strategy to find potential investees
* Build relationships with organisations that can provide a pipeline of investees
* Organise the outreach activities
* Selection of new investees
* Carry out initial assessment of interested applicants to check if they meet the required basic criteria
* Collate information from potential investees for our selection committee
* Organise selection panels with external panelists
Background, skills etc
We are looking for the following skills, experience and qualities:
• At least two years' experience of working in a corporate, start-up or high quality development organisation
• A strong grasp of at least two of the following areas – strategy setting, business and financial planning, governance, legal structures and team building
• Excellent relationship building skills
• An ability to thrive in an fast-growing, entrepreneurial environment
• Passionate about social change
• Fluent English & Hindi
• Eligible to work in India
Please email your CV (no longer than 2 pages) and a brief cover letter explaining your motivation to work with the NGO to dcosta.francis@gmail.com
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Agriculture Portfolio Manager - Acumen Fund
AGRICULTURE PORTFOLIO MANAGER
Acumen Fund is a global non-profit venture capital fund, focused on supporting the delivery of critical services - water, health, housing, energy, agriculture - at affordable prices to the four billion people who lack access in India, Pakistan, and East Africa. Acumen Fund exists to help end poverty by changing how the world addresses it. It does this in two ways: (1) by investing patient capital to identify, strengthen and scale business models that effectively serve the poor and (2) by championing this approach as an effective complement to traditional aid, which can create dependence, or pure market approaches, which can bypass the actual needs of the poor.
With more than $35 million invested in South Asia and Africa, and offices in India, Pakistan, Kenya and New York, Acumen Fund addresses problems of poverty using market based approaches. Acumen Fund's vision is that one day every human being will have access to the critical goods and services they need so that they can make decisions and choices for themselves and pursue lives of greater purpose. This is where dignity starts - not just for the poor but for everyone on earth. www.acumenfund.org
Position description
The hire will directly be responsible for managing the global agriculture portfolio, including current investments, and the developing future investments in the sector. S/he will also be expected to play a significant role globally, helping to build on the existing agricultural expertise in the organization.
Specifically, the Manager will be expected to:
• Identify organizations with proven or promising approaches to delivering agriculture products and services to the poor and conducting due diligence on their capacity to achieve sustainability and scale
• Identify new investments, carry out due diligence and investment activities on potential investments
• Prepare, present and maintain detailed investment documentation for Acumen Fund Senior Management, Acumen's Investment Committee, and the Acumen Fund Board of Directors
• Managing relationships with other Acumen stakeholders in the sector including prospective investees, advisors, thought leaders and technical experts
• Provide post-investment management to investees in the agriculture performance
• Ensure regular contact with Acumen Fund investors on the performance of the organizations and portfolio
The Agriculture Portfolio Manager will report to the portfolio lead in the global office where s/he is placed.
Qualifications
Candidates for the role should have a strong knowledge in the agricultural sector, deep business/finance experience, experience in our investment regions and a passionate commitment to Acumen Fund's mission of tackling the issue of poverty. A master's degree in business administration or a relevant field is highly desirable. International work experience and knowledge of foreign languages are also assets to the position.
Additionally, s/he will have the following attributes:
• Deep principal investing experience in the agriculture sector making agriculture investments and managing an in investment portfolio, with 7 - 10 years of work experience in the same
• A strong entrepreneurial spirit
• A proven ability to manage projects and execute
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to present arguments and analysis in a clear and succinct manner to Acumen Fund management, partners and investees
• Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to work well in a team and successfully interact with corporate and non-profit partners as well as low-income clients in the field
• Commitment to accuracy, attention to detail and follow-through
• Commitment to and enthusiasm for Acumen Fund's mission and business model, and respect for
the organization's core values: generosity, accountability, humility, audacity, listening, leadership, and respect
Compensation
Acumen Fund offers a competitive compensation package, commensurate with experience.
Location
The position will be based in one of Acumen Fund's country offices in Nairobi, Hyderabad or Karachi.
Frequent travel to our investment regions will be required.
To Apply
Send a cover letter and resume to Shahela Sajanlal at ssajanlal@acumenfund.org with copy to portfolio iobs@acumenfund.org. Please include the job title "Ag Portfolio Manager" in the subject line. Regrettably, due to the volume of applicants, we are only able to contact those for whom a possible match is identified.
Acumen Fund is a global non-profit venture capital fund, focused on supporting the delivery of critical services - water, health, housing, energy, agriculture - at affordable prices to the four billion people who lack access in India, Pakistan, and East Africa. Acumen Fund exists to help end poverty by changing how the world addresses it. It does this in two ways: (1) by investing patient capital to identify, strengthen and scale business models that effectively serve the poor and (2) by championing this approach as an effective complement to traditional aid, which can create dependence, or pure market approaches, which can bypass the actual needs of the poor.
With more than $35 million invested in South Asia and Africa, and offices in India, Pakistan, Kenya and New York, Acumen Fund addresses problems of poverty using market based approaches. Acumen Fund's vision is that one day every human being will have access to the critical goods and services they need so that they can make decisions and choices for themselves and pursue lives of greater purpose. This is where dignity starts - not just for the poor but for everyone on earth. www.acumenfund.org
Position description
The hire will directly be responsible for managing the global agriculture portfolio, including current investments, and the developing future investments in the sector. S/he will also be expected to play a significant role globally, helping to build on the existing agricultural expertise in the organization.
Specifically, the Manager will be expected to:
• Identify organizations with proven or promising approaches to delivering agriculture products and services to the poor and conducting due diligence on their capacity to achieve sustainability and scale
• Identify new investments, carry out due diligence and investment activities on potential investments
• Prepare, present and maintain detailed investment documentation for Acumen Fund Senior Management, Acumen's Investment Committee, and the Acumen Fund Board of Directors
• Managing relationships with other Acumen stakeholders in the sector including prospective investees, advisors, thought leaders and technical experts
• Provide post-investment management to investees in the agriculture performance
• Ensure regular contact with Acumen Fund investors on the performance of the organizations and portfolio
The Agriculture Portfolio Manager will report to the portfolio lead in the global office where s/he is placed.
Qualifications
Candidates for the role should have a strong knowledge in the agricultural sector, deep business/finance experience, experience in our investment regions and a passionate commitment to Acumen Fund's mission of tackling the issue of poverty. A master's degree in business administration or a relevant field is highly desirable. International work experience and knowledge of foreign languages are also assets to the position.
Additionally, s/he will have the following attributes:
• Deep principal investing experience in the agriculture sector making agriculture investments and managing an in investment portfolio, with 7 - 10 years of work experience in the same
• A strong entrepreneurial spirit
• A proven ability to manage projects and execute
• Excellent written and oral communication skills; ability to present arguments and analysis in a clear and succinct manner to Acumen Fund management, partners and investees
• Excellent interpersonal skills; ability to work well in a team and successfully interact with corporate and non-profit partners as well as low-income clients in the field
• Commitment to accuracy, attention to detail and follow-through
• Commitment to and enthusiasm for Acumen Fund's mission and business model, and respect for
the organization's core values: generosity, accountability, humility, audacity, listening, leadership, and respect
Compensation
Acumen Fund offers a competitive compensation package, commensurate with experience.
Location
The position will be based in one of Acumen Fund's country offices in Nairobi, Hyderabad or Karachi.
Frequent travel to our investment regions will be required.
To Apply
Send a cover letter and resume to Shahela Sajanlal at ssajanlal@acumenfund.org with copy to portfolio iobs@acumenfund.org. Please include the job title "Ag Portfolio Manager" in the subject line. Regrettably, due to the volume of applicants, we are only able to contact those for whom a possible match is identified.
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