VP, Africa & Middle East Practice

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🔥 8 hours ago

🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote

💵 $120k - $150k / year

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👔 Vice President

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Village Capital

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2009

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🍽️ Food & Beverage

💰 Grant on 2017-08

Consulting • Healthcare • Food & Beverage

Village Capital is a nonprofit organization that focuses on unlocking social and financial capital for early-stage entrepreneurs who are solving major environmental, social, and economic challenges globally. They support startups in sectors like Climate Innovation & Adaptation, Economic Mobility, and Equitable Access to Essential Services, offering investment-readiness accelerator programs and direct or indirect capital investments. The organization aims to democratize entrepreneurship and increase the efficiency, sustainability, impact, and inclusiveness of startups through their network of mentors and global teams. Village Capital is known for its impact investing initiatives and works to ensure inclusive innovation with a significant focus on supporting women-led startups.

📋 Description

• Drive multi-regional strategy across Africa and the Middle East • Identify and advance strategic funding and financing opportunities • Coordinate with regional, functional, and organizational leadership on resource allocation and strategy • Serve as Village Capital's senior representative for the regional portfolio • Partner with communications, business development, finance, data and impact, and regional teams for integrated execution • Stay current on entrepreneurship, venture capital, innovative finance, philanthropic capital, and blended finance trends • Lead strategic stakeholder engagement and business development • Cultivate relationships with investors, foundations, corporations, governments, and funders • Partner on proposal development, donor reporting, pitch materials, case studies, and budget input • Co-develop regional and sectoral fundraising strategy and maintain a fundraising roadmap • Support long-term commitments and portfolio revenue growth • Own delivery of entrepreneur support programs and investment initiatives • Oversee program and investment quality, delivery standards, and outputs management • Oversee investment transactions, investment decisions, transaction structuring, due diligence, and investment frameworks • Allocate resources across initiatives as priorities shift • Evaluate investment strategy and entrepreneur support effectiveness • Own budgets and expenditure priorities • Collaborate with delivery teams to keep curricula regionally relevant • Manage, coach, develop, and support geographically distributed teams, including delivery staff, investment staff, and contractors • Build a culture of learning, accountability, and leadership development • Oversee ecosystem engagement across alumni, portfolio, investor, and expert networks • Represent Village Capital at ecosystem convenings and working groups • Oversee thought leadership content and final review • Lead development and review of region-specific funder and stakeholder reports • Ensure reporting capacity through appropriate staff, tools, consultants, and third-party platforms

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years of investment experience in banking, entrepreneurship, impact investing, or international development • Entrepreneur support and ecosystem development a plus • Track record of building and running complex, multi-stakeholder lines of business at a high standard • Demonstrated track record in business development, including developing fundraising strategy, shaping proposals, and stewarding multi-year funder commitments • Experience managing and developing distributed teams across cultures and geographies • Understanding of the early-stage investment landscape, including venture, blended, and philanthropic capital • Experience in the investment space from the entrepreneur or investor perspective • Impact investing, venture capital, private credit, or DFI experience preferred • Cultural fluency and day-to-day commitment to equity • Ability to operate strategically while staying close enough to spot risk early • Fluency in the language of early-stage investment capital, including equity, debt, hybrid, blended capital, and philanthropic capital

🏖️ Benefits

• 12-month fixed-term position with possibility of extension if Village Capital meets its funding targets