Drishtee is India’s leading rural development organization that provides essential services like health care, education, livelihood opportunities and microfinance to people in rural India. Its double-bottom line approach enables it to implement financially sustainable solutions, which create a strong, positive social impact in rural India.

Drishtee leverages its wide network of over 4,000 rural telecenters run by village entrepreneurs to disseminate these critical services that have impacted the lives of over 2 million people thus far. During the last 8 years, Drishtee has been trusted by several reputable organizations like Acumen Fund and has been felicitated with several major accolades like the World Economic Forum’s “Tech Pioneer Award” in 2007.

The Operations Manager for Health will be responsible for managing the operations and implementation of Drishtee's rural health services. This position will involve coordination with a wide variety of activities including budgeting, planning, training, research, and supply chain. In this role, you will further develop processes, and focus on streamlining all operations of the current pilot in preparation for a large-scale expansion of Drishtee's health service across its kiosk network. As roll out begins, the focus of this role will shift to monitor and evaluate field activities.

Your work will be supporting the Drishtee franchisee network – a corp of village entrepreneurs delivering a range of products and services to their community. Specifically, you would be developing the operations of female-run micro-businesses delivering basic diagnostics and hygiene products to their community. The outcome of such a business would be the opportunity for livelihood generation of the entrepreneur while the community would benefit from savings of doorstep health services.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with an appetite for social enterprise development seeking hands-on experience with a reputable organization in India promoting rural development. In your full-time capacity, you will:
- Work closely with the Senior Manager - Health, to enhance and implement the business model, and the business development strategy with external funding and technical partners
- Oversee expansion and budgeting; and coordinate activities with teams related to training, supply chain and research
- Monitoring field contact with district and bi-monthly village visits
- Set expansion targets for upcoming months and quarters.
- Provide weekly and monthly status reports to senior management.
- Forecast obstacles and pitfalls and implement mitigation strategies to meet project objectives.
- Remuneration – Commensurate with experience

Qualifications
- Passionate about making a lasting, positive social impact in the lives of others.
- Preferable, though not required - Management degree from a top ranking university.
- Be sensitive to skills, efficiency level, educational qualifications possessed by rural entrepreneurs, especially in a multi-cultural context.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to be organized and flexible in an unstructured environment
- Self-directed individual who possesses a problem-solving approach and ability to develop both solutions and processes

To Apply
Send CV/resume and cover letter to Ann Rogan.

Silicon Valley Microfinance Network (SVMN) is a membership organization consisting of more than 800 people from the Bay Area (and beyond) who are interested in microfinance.  The activities of the organization include networking events, an educational speaker series, a resourceful website, and opportunities to engage in the field.  The mission of SVMN is to leverage the unique core competencies of the Bay area in microfinance. 

Given the high level of entrepreneurial activity, business-mindedness, social and global awareness, and education in the San Francisco Bay Area, microfinance has become a topic of great interest.  As a region, it is well recognized as a significant potential source of intellectual and financial capital to support the growth of microfinance.  However, because few microfinance organizations are based in the Bay Area, this energy has limited formal outlets.  The Silicon Valley Microfinance Network (SVMN) was created with the goal of unlocking this latent energy.

SVMN has become the premier microfinance networking organization in the Bay Area and provides a unique forum for learning, discussion and exchange.  At this point in its development, SVMN has an opportunity to build on the momentum created by its strong reputation and industry position to fill an important market gap and move to a higher level of impact.  To learn more, please visit www.svmn.net.

Responsibilities
The SVMN Board of Directors is looking for a strong, entrepreneurial leader with a passion for and knowledge of microfinance.  The Executive Director will be tasked with taking this new organization to the next level, from a growing start-up organization to a robust, professional network. The Executive Director will be responsible for the overall strategic vision of the organization as well as the day to day management.   Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will start at 25% time, increasing to a larger role as SVMN's activity base grows. 

Specifically, the Executive Director will:

• Develop and implement a long term strategy with the Board of Directors
• Design and implement a marketing program to increase membership
• Manage fundraising required to support the financial requirements of SVMN
• Enhance and manage the speaker series program
• Continue to develop the website into a world class microfinance resource for members and non-members
• Develop additional microfinance-related programs or services of interest to SVMN members
• Leverage the membership by building a volunteer network to help run SVMN events and programs
• Manage legal, accounting and governance issues with guidance from the Board of Directors
• Manage communications with the Board of Directors
• Create business performance measurements / metrics to track improvements 
  

Qualifications
Successful applicants will be flexible, with both the strategic leadership of a seasoned business executive and the desire to roll up his/her sleeves in the start-up stage of development.  Specifically,
Excels at and enjoys networking
Strong event planning skills
Ability to coordinate and manage volunteers
Passion for and knowledge of microfinance a must
Skilled at fundraising
Ability to manage a website and social networking technology tools
Enjoys intellectual challenge and fast pace
Thrives in an entrepreneurial environment
Strategy and business plan writing experience
Willingness to work from home
Flexibility to work part time

Application Process
Please submit a cover letter detailing why you want the position and resume by August 15th to tracey@microplace.com

Unitus, an international nonprofit organization, works to reduce global poverty by increasing access to life-changing microfinance services. We seek out and partner with young, high- potential microfinance institutions (MFIs), helping them build capacity, attract capital, and achieve exponential growth. Through this leveraged approach, Unitus seeks to empower millions of the world’s working poor while transforming the financial systems now left out of their reach.
 
The Unitus portfolio reaches more than 4 million families through 22 partners in Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, and the Philippines. Our goal is to reach more than 15 million of the world’s working poor by 2010.
 
Unitus has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, PBS, and National Public Radio. We received Fast Company magazine’s Social Capitalist award for 2006, 2007, and 2008, and were awarded the prestigious 4-star rating for sound fiscal management from Charity Navigator in 2007 and 2008. Unitus is a 501(c)3 with offices in Seattle, Washington and Bangalore, India. 

A successful candidate will have 8-10+ years experience in nonprofit fundraising, including at least 4 years of major gifts experience and will possess at least a basic understanding of the microfinance industry. The highly versatile candidate will be responsible for researching, planning, and managing donor identification, solicitation, and stewardship; serving as primary relationship manager/point of contact for all Bay Area prospects and donors and as a key liaison to Unitus’s Bay Area Board members; and tracking and delivering on critical fundraising goals. 
 
The candidate will have a true passion for fundraising, world affairs and social development, and a knack for making people feel comfortable. We place a strong emphasis on cultural fit with our collegial, entrepreneurial, and driven environment. 
 
This position reports to the Vice President, External Relations.
 
Overall responsibilities include the following:

1. Developing an operational plan for increasing an already successful fundraising program. We anticipate the annual goal for this position to be $5 million minimum.
2. Dramatically increasing Unitus’s contact network and fundraising “footprint” in the Bay Area
3. Systematically identifying, developing, and managing a diverse portfolio of fundraising contacts, including high net worth donors, corporations, foundations, industry associations, and others
4. Supporting other Unitus functional areas in the Bay Area as needed/when appropriate (e.g. public relations, marketing and events, strategic alliances)

Requirements:
• 8-10+ years experience fundraising—major gifts a must, institutional fundraising a plus
• A passion for making a difference and a willingness to roll up sleeves, travel regionally and occasionally internationally, and help build this growing organization!
• The ablility to work independently and efficiently from a remote location (Unitus is headquartered in Seattle, WA)
• CFRE preferred
 
Skills needed: 
• Strategic thinker and self-starter
• Teamwork: able to work well independently and remotely, while still functioning as an integral part of a team
• Strong relationship management
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis of pipeline and expected value
• Business acumen and ability to convincingly tell the Unitus story
• Able to juggle multiple relationships, tasks, and priorities simultaneously while staying focused on goals
• Excellent oral and written communications
• Strong attention to detail
• Grace (and humor!) under pressure
• Marketing, event-planning and/or public speaking experience a plus
 
There are many other areas for contribution. The desired candidate will bring the strategic, conceptual, and creative capacity to outperform this job description. Compensation will be competitive, based on experience; compensation includes an excellent benefits package and a fulfilling work environment.
 
Please submit a resume and cover letter explaining how your skills and experience align with Unitus’s requirements online.  For more information on Unitus, please visit www.unitus.com

Drishtee is India’s leading rural development organization that provides essential services like health care, education, livelihood opportunities and microfinance to people in rural India. Its double-bottom line approach enables it to implement financially sustainable solutions, which create a strong, positive social impact in rural India.

Drishtee leverages its wide network of over 4,000 rural telecenters run by village entrepreneurs to disseminate these critical services that have impacted the lives of over 2 million people thus far.

During the last 8 years, Drishtee has been trusted by several reputable organizations like Acumen Fund and has been felicitated with several major accolades like the World Economic Forum’s “Tech Pioneer Award” in 2007.


The Business Development Manager will be responsible for recruiting clients from the US for Drishtee's outsourcing services. Through its outsourcing wing, Drishtee provides gainful employment opportunities to people in rural India and top-quality, cost effective services to its clients in the US.

In this role, you will build relationships with small/medium businesses and socially inclined organizations/foundations and will help them focus on their core products/services by subcontracting selected administrative tasks & projects to rural entrepreneurs, supporting Drishtee's social goal of helping these rural entrepreneurs earn a livelihood.

Your catalog of services will include Drishtee's rural Document Digitization/Archival Service, Drishtee's Survey and Data Collection Service and Drishtee’s Regional Language Call Center Service.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone seeking strong international sales experience with a reputable organization in India promoting rural development. You will be an independent contractor in your business development work for Drishtee and will:

• Work closely with the Senior Manager - BPO service, to enhance and implement business development strategy.
• Utilize currently existing network to procure jobs for rural entrepreneurs in India.
• Expand current network by connecting with key stakeholders belonging to potential clients at meetings, seminars, panel discussions and other events.
• Work towards developing a steady pipeline to meet projected rural infrastructural capacity.
• Clearly communicate Drishtee's social impact and rural BPO advantages through case studies, brochures, presentations and other effective media.
• Set targets for upcoming months and quarters.
• Provide weekly and monthly status reports to senior management.
• Forecast obstacles and pitfalls and implement mitigation strategies to meet project objectives.
• Remuneration - Mutually agreed upon revenue sharing model can be implemented for contracts solicited.
• Flexible self-directed hours with full-time and part-time options available for this position.

Qualifications

• Passionate about making a lasting, positive social impact in the lives of others.
• Preferable - Management degree from a top ranking university.
• Strong networking abilities to procure jobs for rural entrepreneurs.
• Possess wide-ranging network with C-level executives (CEOs, CFOs, etc.) and other decision makers belonging to potential clients in India and abroad.
• Be sensitive to skills, efficiency level, educational qualifications possessed by rural entrepreneurs, especially in a multi-cultural context.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Self-directed individual who is motivated to reach out to businesses and promote Drishtee's unique BPO services.

To Apply
Send CV/resume and cover letter to Kunal Chawla.

The Bootstrap Fund is a $5 million nonprofit microfinance fund with a long history and commitment to alleviating poverty and building self-esteem in Central America.  Our method of engagement in this mission is to provide capital to microfinance institutions in Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Nicaragua through a highly vetted network.  Our rapid growth and development is moving the Fund towards self-sufficiency while working to significantly increase our impact on the lives of the thousands of women and their families in Central America.

The Executive Director will provide leadership and represent the Fund to private and public funding sources, financial institutions, community organizations, and the media to increase donations, investments and general exposure of the fund.  S/he will oversee the growth and development of the Fund, as well as its management and operations.  The Fund headquarters is in Stockton, California where a regular presence will be required, but Bay Area representation will be key in this role.  Reports to:  The Board of Directors.

Responsibilities:

Fund Management
•    Coordinate overall Fund strategic planning and programming.
•    Negotiate contracts with consultants, auditors and lawyers as needed. 
•    Stay current with Blue Sky laws, states’ registration requirements and appropriate legal issues related to private offerings and fundraising out-of-state.
•    Keep current with community development finance industry trends, microfinance industry capitalization strategies and developments and Partner country economic-social-political developments.

Capital and Investor Solicitation
•    Prospecting and Donor Relations
•    Acquire, develop, cultivate and maintain donor base and raise capital to achieve self sufficiency
•    Research and qualify foundations and individuals for grants and prepare applications as required
•    Prepare and conduct presentations, draft funding proposals, and provide other appropriate Fund representations
•    Provide follow-up reporting for board, donors, and investors as required
•    Investor Promotion
•    Identify, develop and maintain direct relations with all investor prospects:  individuals and institutional investors, such as faith-based organizations, community foundations and public and private institutions, as well as commercial investment advisors.
•    Market the Fund from pre-presentation preparation through investment closing and follow-up.
•    Represent the Fund in the national and international CDFI and socially responsible investment community, with colleague organizations and at appropriate conferences.
Board Relations
•    Report to the Board and coordinate board meeting preparations in concert with Board chair.
•    Work directly with the Board to manage the Fund and its policies and procedures.
•    Interface with additional Board committees as these are formed.

Microfinance Institution Relations
•    Maintain direct contact with Fund MFI clients and the Network association;
•    Serve as northern representative to the Katalysis Central American Microfinance Network.

Staff Supervision and Management
•    Develop personnel policy and procedures.
•    Negotiate appropriate benefit contracts as needed. 
•    Hire, supervise and review staff. 

Required Attributes:

•    Strong written and verbal skills with a demonstrated success rate in raising funds
•    Passion for the microfinance space
•    Spanish fluency a plus

Compensation:
Salary commensurate with experience plus excellent benefit package.

To Apply:
Qualified candidates should submit a resume and cover letter to Jennifer Nice.

Help Create Sustainable Social Franchises that Tackle Poverty and Disease

NESTA is the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts - a unique body with a mission to make the UK more innovative. We invest in early-stage companies, inform and shape policy, and deliver practical programmes that inspire others to solve the big challenges of the future.

The core purpose of this role is to lead the implementation of NESTA’s social finance strategy which is designed to help social enterprises access new forms of risk capital.
This will include:

• establishing a portfolio of practical demonstration projects, designed to help bring new supplies of risk finance into the market and explore how best to structure that finance.
• cultivating the demand for risk capital amongst social enterprises, supporting its take up through a combination of investment readiness activities engagement with the wider investment community and efforts to improve the regulatory conditions.
  

To apply:  Please send a covering letter and CV detailing your ability to meet the requirements of the role to Tanya Holland.
If you have any queries please contact Tanya on 020 7438 2585.

Download Candidate Brief (PDF)

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Salary: £45-55k+ plus excellent benefits
Closing date:  5 pm, 28 May 2008

UnLtd India exists to be a home for early-stage 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 fledging organisations for further investment.
 
UnLtd India supports early-stage social entrepreneurs by providing:
• Seed funding 
• Hands-on technical and leadership support 
• High-value connections 
 
Roles and responsibilities
As we expand our operations, we are looking for an outstanding Associate to join our incubation team. 
Your responsibilities will be to:
 
Support investees
• Provide ongoing coaching and advisory support to investees 
• Organise workshops, networking events and residentials, peer learning groups as appropriate
• Broker connections for investees with peers, mentors and investors
• Monitore 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.
 
Scouting for Investees
• Devise and implementing an outreach strategy to find potential investees 
• Build relationships with organisations and institutions that can provide a pipeline of investees
• Organise the outreach activities
 
Select 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 including identifying panellists, compiling information packs and
communicating with them
 
Qualification
We are looking for the following skills, experience and qualities:
• At least three 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 us by 31 May 2008 to pooja.warier@unltdindia.org

Grassroots group that is devoted to rebuilding Sierra Leone anticipates seed money for micro-finance project.  Already have village infrastructure & women's micro-credit groups. Already work on literacy & conflict prevention; on poverty alleviation, sex workers, & youth. Next step is utilizing this village infrastructure to generate income & improve livelihoods.

RESPONSIBILITIES
1. PROJECT MANAGEMENT:  Help initiate this new direction & keep it running smoothly.
2. BUSINESS SAVVY:
a) Help identify products or services that are well suited to villagers.
b) Help identify markets, whether local or international.
3) TRAINING OF TRAINERS: Mentor villagers & women in micro-loan groups regarding:
a) how to maintain & manage their projects over time
b) what snags to anticipate & how to overcome & advance
c) how to gauge the needs of their markets & shift strategies or revise their products or services
d) how to access or "grow" funds for further growth
e) how to manage their collective needs & organizational changes

QUALIFICATIONS
1. Practical (vs theoretical) experience with micro-finance.
2. Ability to mentor & transfer skills very important
3. Project management & leadership
4. Africa experience
5. Able to integrate into village life

TERMS
Exchange for your services & expertise: humble, clean home stay & eating with family at no charge.
Excellent experience for person(s) going into international development work.
1 - 2 year stay is ideal but negotiable.
Project will start April 2008 but applications accepted on a rolling basis.

HOW TO APPLY
Interested? Please read the entire NGOabroad website. Email info as requested on home page: embedded resume
& answered Questionnaire to info@NGOabroad.com.  QUESTIONNAIRE IS ESSENTIAL.

Want to blog on an issue you are passionate about for an audience of hundreds of thousands of activists and nonprofit leaders?
Want to create the premier online space for your issue and become a leading voice for social action?

Change.org is launching a social action blog network this summer and is currently hiring a team of blogger/editors to help create a movement for change around the major causes of our time.
Positions are part-time and paid.

Each blogger will lead an online community focusing on a different social, political, or environmental issue, maintain a daily blog covering news and offering commentary, convene leading nonprofits and activists working on the issue, and help people translate their interests and passions into concrete action.

Change.org's blog network will include dozens of communities around issues, including:
Global Warming
Human Rights
Poverty
Universal Health Care
Human Trafficking
Homelessness
Public Education
Global Health
Gay Rights
War in Iraq
Global Hunger
Animal Rights
Fair Trade
Racism
Peace in the Middle East
Promoting Democracy
Immigrant Rights
Women's Rights
Darfur
Prison Reform
Microfinance
Disaster Relief
Autism
Cure Cancer
Domestic Abuse
Mental Health
Humanitarian Relief
Rights of the Disabled
Sustainable Agriculture

For more information and to apply, go to http://www.change.org/bloggers

The New Ventures team at Unitus is seeking highly motivated social business entrepreneurs to participate in our Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) program for 2008. Please forward this note to your contacts and friends in the social sphere.
                                                                                                                                                                                      
EIRs at Unitus spend up to one year launching their venture with the deep support of a dynamic community of socially-committed business professionals with passion for alleviating poverty through microfinance. The EIR program will provide strategic support to entrepreneurs dedicated to building social businesses that can scale to improve income generation potential of millions of disadvantaged people in India or Sub-Saharan Africa. The program will include work space, resources for travel/activities, and opportunities to network with and learn from our Microfinance partners around the world.
 
Ideal candidates for the program will meet several of the following criteria:

• Commitment to improving the lives of disadvantaged people in emerging economies
• Focus on specific ideas for furthering income generation among the world’s poor (see Program Focus details below)
• Experience building scalable, highly successful organizations
• History of innovation and creativity
• Strong desire to operate and grow a social business
• In-market experience in India or Sub-Saharan Africa
• Strong relationships and references

 
Interested people should please send an introductory email including CV or resume and a short summary of their business concept to eir@unitus.com. Individuals inquiring after June 15, 2008 may no longer be eligible.
 
Focus

• New Ventures is looking for innovative and scalable initiatives that economically empower the poor in India and Sub-Saharan Africa. The following areas are of particular interest:
• Mesofinance capital:  Provide next-step loans to small enterprises in regions where group lending models of microfinance are not able to provide sufficient loan sizes to meet the needs of these small enterprises.
• Insurance and savings: Develop health/life/agricultural insurance and savings solutions to provide safety nets that enable the working poor to take business risks.
• Microfranchise businesses: Develop packaged product and service business opportunities for franchising by targeted clients of microfinance institutions.
• Workforce ventures: Scale the most promising skilled-employment training, certification, and placement services in areas of large numbers of informal service providers.

Commitment
• 6-month term on a full-time or near full-time basis; can be extended to a 2nd 6- month term
• Substantial time in-market: India or Sub-saharan Africa
• Frequent meetings with Unitus New Ventures team
• Creation of a business plan and/or operational plan
 

Gray Matters Capital Foundation is a charitable arm of Gray Ghost Ventures, a social investment company that seeks to invest in visionary people, with an emphasis on microfinance and education.  Since 1996, Gray Ghost Ventures has worked to foster strategic innovation by incubating and investing in enterprises and tools to provide market-based solutions to social issues.  Through the initiatives of its charitable foundations, The Rockdale Foundation and Gray Matters Capital Foundation and through its investment activities Gray Ghost Ventures has improved capacity of the microfinance industry in the Arab world, supported successful reform efforts in the Atlanta Public Schools, created the first privately-held global microfinance investment portfolio and social venture capital fund, offering both financial and social returns.   Gray Ghost Ventures seeks to expand the mission of its charitable foundations and its social investing in the area of expanding the access and quality of primary and secondary education to the poor in developing countries.

The Initiative
While some countries have a credible public education sector, there are many in Asia, Africa and Latin America that are in desperate need of alternatives to failing public schools.  As a result, privately-owned affordable schools for low-income families have emerged, where families are considered clients with rights to demand quality.  These schools put an emphasis on quality, efficiency and performance, justifying the modest tuition charged that allow them to become sustainable enterprises. 

Affordable schools for the poor exist throughout the world and serve millions of children living in some of the most difficult conditions. Gray Matters Capital seeks to connect affordable schools with resources that will allow them to improve quality while remaining accessible and affordable for low-income families.

The Gray Matters Capital Foundation is seeking a Program Officer to manage program activities that will build the ecosystem around the affordable school sector. This ecosystem will include educational resources, industry infrastructure and transparency as described above that will benefit students and their learning.  The Program Officer will be responsible for researching and designing programs, developing partnerships with other supporting organizations and donors, and monitoring results to ensure quality education is being offered.
 
Primary Duties for this position include:
•    Sourcing and Due Diligence:  Identify, evaluate and make recommendations of promising partners; develop and maintain pipeline of grants & programs.
•    Project Management:  Serve as the direct point of contact for partners, managing grants and programs from design through execution and evaluation.
•    Monitoring and Analysis:  Conduct ongoing financial and social analysis of the grant and program portfolio. 
•    Research: Conduct ongoing and project-specific research. Identify and implement appropriate measures of assessing quality and impact.
•    Promotion: Represent the initiative in a variety of venues to diverse audiences from high level to the general public.
•    Strategic Direction:  Contribute to the ongoing development of the strategy and planning around the initiative.
* The position is based in Atlanta, Georgia, USA but will require significant international travel.

To apply for this consultancy, please send the following items to Genia Topple, Executive Director, at gtopple@rockdalefdn.org.

Unitus is a worldwide leader at scaling innovative solutions to global poverty. For six years, our nonprofit organization has partnered with the world’s most promising microfinance institutions to dramatically accelerate access to life-changing financial services for those living at the bottom of the economic pyramid—the 3 billion people who currently live on less than $2 per day. Unitus has been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, PBS, and National Public Radio and is a three-time winner of Fast Company’s Social Capitalist Award for innovative nonprofits.
 
In 2008 Unitus is expanding our ability to reach our mission by launching a new group of commercially-oriented funds and companies that will invest in and encourage the broader provision of financial services to the poor worldwide.  This group of companies will include private equity funds, an investment bank and potential operating companies that target customers at the bottom of the pyramid.  We seek an experienced CFO to provide financial leadership to the group and to direct and oversee the financial activities and management of the group’s funds and companies.  
 
Position Location:  San Francisco, CA
 
The successful CFO candidate will have 10+ years experience in a senior financial position within private equity or similar partnerships. The candidate must have extensive knowledge of partnership agreements, private equity standards, financial reporting, partnership accounting and integrated IT systems.  International experience with off-shore entities is also desired.
 
Additionally, the ideal CFO candidate will effectively interface with various stakeholders, requiring very good working relationships with private equity professionals, banks, accounting firms and legal counsel.  The CFO will be able to work with outsourced experts as necessary
and will maintain a flexible approach with respect to in-house and outsourced relationships and the strategic needs of the group over time.
 
The CFO candidate will also provide mentorship to the management teams of the group’s funds and companies.  To this end, we place a strong emphasis on cultural fit with our collegial, entrepreneurial and results-oriented environment.
 
It is imperative that the CFO shares the passion and commitment for the company’s mission, values and vision. This person must have a collaborative style with the ability to work in a team environment. He/she must have the highest level of professionalism, integrity, and quality of work with excellent leadership skills. This person must be intelligent, results-driven and positive, and have respect for people at all levels. The CFO should create a shared vision within the company and within the finance group. 
 
For complete job description or to submit a resume and cover letter explaining how your skills and experience align with our requirements, please email to mbradford@unitus.com. Please include “CFO” in the subject line and note that resumes without cover letters will not be reviewed. This position is open until filled and resumes are reviewed on a rolling basis. 

Associate Director of Living Goods: The Avon of Rural Health

Fundación Namaste Guatemaya (FNG) has a rewarding opportunity for a dynamic Regional Program Director to lead our efforts in creating a comprehensive, scalable model intended to support micro-credit borrowers and encourage a successful departure from poverty. FNG is a newly created Guatemalan ONG and is affiliated with NamasteDirect, a microcredit organization in the U.S.  NamasteDirect has funded the loans of over 3,500 micro-credit borrowers in Guatemala and Chiapas, the southern-most state in Mexico. FNG, together with NamasteDirect intends to fund the loans of thousands of more borrowers, while simultaneously providing business education programs and support. This is a