Acumen Fund , Chief Investment Officer
Competitive Salary Location is preferably field based but flexible. Offices are located in New York, Nairobi, Mumbai and Karachi
This is an opportunity to change the world. Acumen Fund is a global non-profit organisation that invests in social enterprises, emerging leaders, and breakthrough ideas. The organisation seeks to prove that small amounts of philanthropic capital, combined with large doses of business acumen and moral imagination, can build thriving enterprises that serve vast numbers of the poor, reinventing development and how the world thinks about poverty.
Acumen Fund is looking to find an exceptional person to be their new Chief Investment Officer. This person will have a strong entrepreneurial spirit and be excited by the challenge of managing and growing Acumen Fund’s portfolio in the next phase of its development. Candidates will bring passionate commitment to the mission and embody the organisation’s core values: generosity, humility, listening, accountability, audacity, leadership, respect and integrity.
An unparalleled leadership ability will be essential. Candidates will need to have strong functional and operational understanding, deft interpersonal and influencing skills, exceptional and creative analytical capability. They will bring a core commitment to good governance and ethical business practices and a natural aptitude for world-class story telling.
For more information, including how to apply, please refer to the website of Saxton Bampfylde Ltd, our employment agency advisors, at www.saxbam.com/jobs using job reference BAXXX. Alternatively, email BAXXX@saxbam.com . If you do not have access to the internet/email please telephone +44 (0) 207 7227 0890 (during office hours). You may expect to hear from us by 2 March 2012.
This is an opportunity to change the world. Acumen Fund is a global non-profit organisation that invests in social enterprises, emerging leaders, and breakthrough ideas. The organisation seeks to prove that small amounts of philanthropic capital, combined with large doses of business acumen and moral imagination, can build thriving enterprises that serve vast numbers of the poor, reinventing development and how the world thinks about poverty.
Acumen Fund is looking to find an exceptional person to be their new Chief Investment Officer. This person will have a strong entrepreneurial spirit and be excited by the challenge of managing and growing Acumen Fund’s portfolio in the next phase of its development. Candidates will bring passionate commitment to the mission and embody the organisation’s core values: generosity, humility, listening, accountability, audacity, leadership, respect and integrity.
An unparalleled leadership ability will be essential. Candidates will need to have strong functional and operational understanding, deft interpersonal and influencing skills, exceptional and creative analytical capability. They will bring a core commitment to good governance and ethical business practices and a natural aptitude for world-class story telling.
For more information, including how to apply, please refer to the website of Saxton Bampfylde Ltd, our employment agency advisors, at www.saxbam.com/jobs using job reference BAXXX. Alternatively, email BAXXX@saxbam.com . If you do not have access to the internet/email please telephone +44 (0) 207 7227 0890 (during office hours). You may expect to hear from us by 2 March 2012.
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