Are you passionate about changing the world? Do you have strong coaching and/or business skills? Want to combine your passion and skills?
UnLtd India, an innovative foundation for start up social entrepreneurs, is looking to hire an outstanding Associate for its Incubation team.
Position: Associate, Level 2 Incubation Support
Location: Mumbai, India
Deadline: 20th July, 2010
Introduction
UnLtd India is an innovative foundation 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.
UnLtd India supports start up social entrepreneurs through the following initiatives:
- Incubation support – provides seed funding, hands-on technical and leadership support and high value connections
- Hub – provides a collaborative space to work out of, connect, learn and grow
- Conference for start up social entrepreneurs in India – provides the first of its kind platform in India to connect with peers, experts and funders/investors
Level 2 incubation support
Our Level 2 support is for individuals with early-stage locally-based projects that have the potential to create larger scale, sustained social impact. In brief, a Level 2 investee is an individual with:
- A strong motivation to create change and a focussed vision for a problem.
- Operational evidence of need and demand, model and social impact.
- A track record of early success in the project, a clear plan of further delivery and majority/full time commitment.
We provide a package of financial and non-financial support that aims to develop the social entrepreneur's leadership and delivery abilities along with the robustness, sustainability and impact of their organisation. See Level 2 investee videos at the following links:www.youtube.com/www.youtube.com/Roles and responsibilities of Associate, Level 2 Incubation Support You will be responsible to provide non-financial support to UnLtd India Level 2 investees. Within this, your specific responsibilities will be as following: Support UnLtd India 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.
Qualifications
We are looking for the following skills, experience and qualities
- At least four years' experience of working in a corporate, start-up or high quality development organisation
- Intermediate level knowledge of business and financial planning and budgeting
- A strong grasp of at least two of the following areas – strategy setting, governance, legal structures and team building.
- Excellent inter-personal and communication skills
- An ability to thrive in an fast-growing, entrepreneurial environment
- Passionate about social change
- Fluent English & Hindi
- Eligible to work in India
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