Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs

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Please check out the following Jobs in the Network that are currently recruiting. If you would like to post a job opening, please email Stella Hanly.

Please check our Fellowships and Internship Opportunities page as well!

ANDE is currently hiring Regional Chapter Coordinators for Central America/Mexico, East Africa and South Africa.
The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs (ANDE) is a global network of organizations that invest money and expertise to propel entrepreneurship in emerging markets. Officially launched in 2009, we are a member-driven organization housed within the Aspen Institute, an international non-profit that promotes enlightened leadership. Our members are the vanguard of a movement that is focused on small and growing businesses (SGBs) that create economic, environmental, and social benefits for developing countries. Ultimately, we seek to build sustainable prosperity in the developing world.
Chapters seek to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing among local ANDE members, to serve as a conduit to global ANDE activities, and to support regional activities and advocacy efforts that support small and growing businesses (SGBs) in the region. Chapter Coordinators manage local activities and support chapters in achieving their priorities. For details on each of the open positions, and how to apply, click the applicable link below:
ANDE Chapter Coordinator for South Africa (Johannesburg, South Africa)
ANDE Chapter Coordinator for East Africa (Nairobi, Kenya)
ANDE Chapter Coordinator for Central America and Mexico (Mexico City, Mexico)

Public Sector Competitiveness Fellow Special Advisor on Investments to the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Trade & Investment, The Tony Elumelu Foundation (Abuja, Nigeria)
The Tony Elumelu Foundation is an Africa-based and African-funded not-for-profit institution, dedicated to the promotion and celebration of excellence in business leadership and entrepreneurship across Africa. As a 21st century catalytic philanthropy, the Foundation is committed to the economic transformation of Africa through investments that generate both economic and social wealth in the African private sector. The Tony Elumelu Foundation in line with its intent of providing strategic support to key private sector facing ministries is seeking to engage the services of a suitably qualified candidate for the role of Special Advisor on Investments attached to the Federal Ministry of Trade and Investment. The Special Advisor on Investments will be primarily focused on attracting domestic and foreign investment in to several of Nigeria’s key growth sectors. The position is based in Abuja, Nigeria with extensive domestic and international travel and will report directly to the Federal Minister of Trade and Investment. For more information, and how to apply, click here.

Program Manager - Youth Learning, The MasterCard Foundation (Toronto, Canada)
The MasterCard Foundation is a global foundation based in Toronto, Canada with over $5 billion in assets. It was established through the generosity of MasterCard Worldwide at the time of the company’s initial public offering in 2006. As an independent entity, The MasterCard Foundation is governed by its own Board of Directors. Reporting to the Director of Youth Learning and working collaboratively with the youth learning team, the Program Manager will identify and evaluate opportunities that advance the Foundation’s strategy. The successful candidate will have a passion for working with youth, and expertise and experience in the field of youth learning. He/She will bring fresh ideas to solve current challenges youth face in developing countries. For more details, and how to apply, click here.

Field Human Resources and Office Administrator, Root Capital (Costa Rica)
Root Capital is a nonprofit social investment fund that grows rural prosperity in poor, environmentally vulnerable places in Africa and Latin America by lending capital, delivering financial training, and strengthening market connections for small and growing agricultural businesses. The Field Human Resources and Office Administrator will be responsible for helping to ensure that the human resource functional areas of compensation, benefits, compliance, employee relations, recruiting, for our operations in the Latin America Region are effective and operate efficiently. Additionally, this position will be the point person for procurement of vendor goods & services, coordinating IT needs, ensuring efficient internal and external communications with and will work closely with other members of the HR team, accounting team, and operations team. For more details, and how to apply, click here. Closing date is June 8th.

Associate, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation (Menlo Park, CA)
The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation ("the Foundation"), a nationally recognized venture philanthropy fund that provides three-year grants and strategic business support to social entrepreneur-led nonprofit organizations with the potential to create significant, long-term impact on critical social problems, seeks an Associate to join their team in Menlo Park, California.
The incoming Associate will provide critical support to all portfolio management activities. Specifically, s/he will be responsible for comprehensive support of portfolio development, internal logistics coordination, and communications. S/he will be a self-starter who can assess the internal capacity needs of the organization and enhance and develop the appropriate systems and tools to ensure Draper Richards Kaplan continues to identify, fund, and support cutting edge social entrepreneurs. For details on how to apply, click here.

Africa Program Director, Sustainable Harvest (Moshi, Tanzania)
Sustainable Harvest at Origin/Africa is a non-profit organization that partners with specialty coffee producers. We increase coffee quality, create market linkages, and build capacity in order to improve the livelihoods of smallholder coffee farmers. Our office in Moshi, Tanzania is currently looking for a Africa Program Director with experience working and living in Tanzania. The Africa Program Director must exhibit strong leaderships skills, be able to motivate a team of multi-cultural staff to ensure all projects meet milestones and impacts as outlined by donor requirements. For details on how to apply, click here. Closing date is May 20th.

Account Manager, Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (Boston, MA)
Started as a research program at Harvard's Center for International Development, the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL) is a high growth; disruptive financial services company that provides commercial banks, intergovernmental organizations and impact investors with technology that measures risk and potential among the un/under-­banked. EFL has partnered with several leading financial institutions across the developing world, and has a proven ability to significantly reduce defaults and unlock access to finance for large untapped portions of the SME market. In short, EFL helps banks lend toentrepreneurs in the developing world.
The EFL is seeking an Account Manager to oversee our banking partnerships in both West Africa and Haiti. This is a full-time opportunity that will be based in Boston, with 25% travel to Haiti and 25% travel to West Africa. The candidate must be fluent in French, with a preference for candidates with experience living or working in West Africa. For more information, and details on how to apply, click here.

IT Applications Administrator, Root Capital (Cambridge, MA)
Root Capital is a nonprofit social investment fund that grows rural prosperity in poor, environmentally vulnerable places in Africa and Latin America by lending capital, delivering financial training, and strengthening market connections for small and growing agricultural businesses.
Root Capital is looking for a proactive and motivated IT Applications Administrator, an energetic ‘can do’ collaborative team member, knowledgeable across all of our platforms, and eager to solve problems and serve end users. S/he will be responsible for developing, administering, and maintaining Root Capital’s Salesforce enterprise platform as well as supporting Root Capital’s other application and communication platforms. For more information, click here. Closing date for applications is May 31st, 2012.

Senior Associate, Board and Compliance, Root Capital (Cambridge, MA)
Root Capital is a nonprofit social investment fund that grows rural prosperity in poor, environmentally vulnerable places in Africa and Latin America by lending capital, delivering financial training, and strengthening market connections for small and growing agricultural businesses.
Root Capital is looking for a proactive and motivated Senior Associate, Board and Compliance. S/he will provide strategic and administrative support to the Director of Legal Resources & Compliance (Director) and to the Legal Advisor to facilitate the Legal Team’s efforts to accomplish a wide and growing variety of corporate legal and compliance matters, the registration of field offices, and Board management. For more information, click here. Closing date for applications is May 31st, 2012.

Event Coordinator, Let’s Talk Coffee® - Sustainable Harvest (Portland, Oregon)
Sustainable Harvest seeks a Let’s Talk Coffee® Event Coordinator to lead the planning and implementation of the Let’s Talk Coffee® annual conference, to be held in Colombia in October 2012. The position will be based at Sustainable Harvest’s headquarters in Portland, Oregon, and will include
extended travel to Colombia. This is a seven month position, starting in May and ending in November upon completion of the event. For more information, click here.

Global Partnership Advisor, Greenlight Planet (Nairobi, Kenya)
Greenlight Planet's mission is to replace the dirty, dangerous and expensive kerosene lanterns used by 1.6 billion off-grid people in Asia and Africa. Our products are designed from the ground up to meet the needs of price-sensitive off-grid consumers. Greenlight Planet is looking for driven, passionate, socially minded business development professionals to join its newly created Global Partnership team in Nairobi, Kenya. These Global Partnerships Advisors will accelerate Greenlight Planet's presence by support existing strategic accounts, and cultivating new business partnerships in the region. To find out more about this position, and for details on how to apply, please click here.

Engagement Manager, Mission Measurement (Chicago, IL or Washington, D.C.)
Mission Measurement is a for-profit consulting firm that works with some of the most innovative companies and social sector organizations, all of whom are focused on creating real social impact. The end results of our work – more lives improved, more effective organizations, higher return on social investment – are incredibly rewarding. As a performance driven company we offer competitive salaries and exceptional benefits to attract and retain top-tier talent. Mission Measurement is looking to hire a full-time Engagement Manager to join our Team. The Engagement Manager will help to develop strategies and implement measurement solutions for corporate, nonprofit and international development clients. For more information on this position, and for instructions on how to apply, click here.

Associate, Mission Measurement (Chicago, IL)
Mission Measurement is a for-profit consulting firm that works with some of the most innovative companies and social sector organizations, all of whom are focused on creating real social impact. The end results of our work – more lives improved, more effective organizations, higher return on social investment – are incredibly rewarding. As a performance driven company we offer competitive salaries and exceptional benefits to attract and retain top-tier talent. Mission Measurement is looking to hire a full-time Associate to join our Team. The Associate will help to develop strategies and implement measurement solutions for our clients. This position is based in Chicago, IL and may require periodic domestic and/or international travel as determined by client engagements. For more information on the position, and instructions how to apply, click here.

Business Development and Access to Finance Expert (Short Term Temporary/ Consultant), World Bank  - Africa Clean Cooking Initiative (Washington, DC)
Africa Clean Cooking Initiative (ACCI) is envisioned as a market-transformation program with the objective to promote enterprise-based, large-scale dissemination and adoption of clean cooking solutions in Sub-Saharan Africa. The Project is seeking an Advisor to provide technical support and specific expertise related to business development and access to finance support for scale up SMEs in the clean cooking sector. The advisor will be hired on a Short Term Consultancy basis to support the ACCI team in Monitoring and providing input into the landscape study being undertaken to analyze the state of the clean cooking sector in SSA, assisting the team in analyzing the input and feedback from the stakeholder consultations to incorporate into the design of the ACCI framework, and designing the ACCI framework and formulation of the components including value-added interventions to address the barriers identified through the study and the consultations. For more information, click here; to apply, email Srilata Kammila.

Senior Emerging Market Credit Officer, TriLinc Global (Manhattan Beach, CA)
TriLinc Global is an impact investing firm dedicated to reducing global poverty via job creation and middle class expansion.  Under the direction of the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and senior management, the Senior Emerging Market Credit Officer is responsible for overseeing and implementing the credit processes of TriLinc Global and its sub-advisors.  Responsibilities include participation in due diligence of sub-advisor candidates, ongoing review of the organization’s global loan portfolio in order to minimize loan losses; oversight of credit practices of sub-advisors; review of credit documentation to ensure compliance with Investment Committee approvals and government regulations; monitor loan portfolio for deterioration in credit quality; ensure internal credit compliance objectives are met. For more information on this position, click here.

Program Investment Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle, WA)
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Overview: Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. The Program Related Investment (PRI) group was established in 2009 to use equity, debt and guaranty investments to advance the foundation's charitable goals. Members of the PRI team are responsible for sourcing, structuring, negotiating and managing investments from the foundation's $1 billion PRI fund in coordination with foundation program officers. 
For more information on this position, click here.

Multiple positions, TechnoServe (Washington DC, Guatemala, Uganda, Tanzania, Nigeria, East Africa, West and Southern Africa)
TechnoServe helps entrepreneurial men and women in poor areas of the developing world to build businesses that create income, opportunity and economic growth for their families, their communities and their countries. For all open positions, click here.

Case Writers for African Facility for Inclusive Markets (AFIM) regional project report, United Nations Development Project (Home Based)
The ‘African Facility for Inclusive Markets’ (AFIM) is a regional private sector and inclusive market development programme for poverty reduction in Africa. Based in Johannesburg, it is supported by UNDP’s Private Sector Division and Regional Bureau for Africa. As part of its objective to increase the capacity of regional organizations, governments, and other stakeholders to support inclusive market development in the region, AFIM will develop a report based on the  ‘Growing Inclusive Markets’ (GIM) Initiative’s methodology, including the research and analysis of case studies of inclusive business models. The Case Studies work stream of the AFIM/GIM Report process seeks to establish a network of case writers from a selection of countries, including Liberia, Ethiopia, Ghana and Burkina Faso. The new pool of case studies created under this work stream will increase the depth of analysis by providing quantitative and qualitative data on the business benefit of inclusive business models as well as their social and environmental impact. The case studies to be documented will focus on the following sectors: agribusiness; small, medium and micro-credit; construction; water and sanitation; education; and energy.
Description:  Case writers will produce (identify, analyze, and write up) a minimum of 2 case studies based on the GIM Research Protocol. A minimum of 1 field visit to each case site, and interviews with a variety of stakeholders will be required. Throughout the entire process the writer will interact with the GIM and AFIM teams through an iterative process.For more information, including how to apply, click here.

 Program Officer, The Lemelson Foundation (Portland)
The Lemelson Foundation is a private philanthropy established by one of the most prolific independent US inventors, Jerome Lemelson, and his family. The Foundation is committed to inspiring and recognizing inventors and improving lives through invention, both in the US and in developing countries. To this end we seek to expand the pipeline of inventors, inventions and invention-based enterprises that can result in economic and social impact in the US and improve the lives of the poorest populations in developing countries. Additionally, we seek to strengthen the ecosystem that supports the inspiration and education of inventors, as well as the translation of their inventions from ideas to impact through the innovation process and entrepreneurship. The Lemelson Foundation has an endowment of around $320 million with an annual budget around $16 million.
The Program Officer (PO) will provide support on issues that cut across the Foundation’s priorities and are of high importance to the overall strategy. The primary role of the PO is to develop, monitor and manage a portfolio of investments (grants, contracts) and other activities in direct support of the Foundation’s strategy. The PO will be expected to apply technical expertise in the evaluation of opportunities, as well as engage expert input from others. Click here for more information. To apply, please address a cover letter and resume to Lara Cunningham.

International Investments Officer, Calvert Foundation
Calvert Foundation seeks an Investment Officer to join its international investments team within the larger Lending & Advisory Services Department. The Investment Officer will be responsible for the origination of new loans and the management of credit quality within the international portfolio. This portfolio is comprised of microfinance institutions and intermediary vehicles, ventures in sustainable agriculture, and small to medium enterprises providing access to clean water and renewable energy to the base of the pyramid.

Technical Assistance Facility Advisor, TechnoServe (Accra, Ghana or Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire)
TechnoServe, a rapidly growing non-profit organization working to enhance economic development across Africa is currently recruiting for a member of staff to join the team managing a €10M five year Technical Assistance Facility (TAF)  that will fund projects to support the portfolio companies of Phatisa’s African Agriculture Fund. TechnoServe seeks applications from candidates who have management or strategy consulting experience and/or a proven track record in SME capacity building, a good understanding of private equity, and experience of private sector oriented development program design. To apply, please e-mail CV, salary history and 3 references to taf@tns.org.

Senior Investment Officer, International Investments, Calvert Foundation
Calvert Foundation seeks a Senior Investment Officer to join its international investments team within the larger Lending & Advisory Services Department. The Senior Investment Officer will be responsible for the origination of new loans and the management of credit quality within the international portfolio. This portfolio is comprised of microfinance institutions and intermediary vehicles, ventures in sustainable agriculture, and small to medium enterprises providing access to clean water and renewable energy to the base of the pyramid. The Senior Investment Officer will also act as an advisor to the Manager of the Risk Management Department, the Portfolio Manager for International Investments, and the Vice President, Community Investment Partners, on strategies for portfolio expansion and penetration of new market segments. The Senior Investment Officer is expected to serve as a deputy to the Portfolio Manager for International Investments and to fulfill his/her duties when he/she is absent or travelling.

Capacity Development Provider, TechnoServe (Washington, DC and East Africa- 2 positions)
TechnoServe is an international, non-profit economic development organization founded in 1968 out of a conviction that a vibrant private sector is an essential foundation for economic growth and poverty reduction. They are beginning a new technical unit focused improving our effectiveness at building knowledge and skills among our beneficiaries to ensure that they can carry on and improve the work started through our interventions. The capacity building manager (Washington, DC) will be primarily responsible for implementing and overseeing activities related to capacity building of TechnoServe's field staff. The Regional Capacity Building Manager (East Africa) will be a part of this central technical unit of three staff (initially) and report to the team leader, Capacity Building, Senior Manager because of the overlap in technical expertise.  To ensure the Regional Capacity Building Manager is fully integrated into the region and abreast of priorities and needs, he/she will participate in the East Africa Divisional Team and coordinate priority activities with the East Africa Regional Director.

To Apply: Please submit a; resume, cover letter, salary history, three references and the source by which you came to learn about this opportunity (ANDE) to: hkane@tns.org.  Place position title in the subject line. Please include all documents together. No phone calls please.