Posts Tagged ‘administrative’

Acumen Fund is hiring – someone to help us spread the word

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

With all the changes that are going on in the world – a financial meltdown on one hand, a new U.S. President brought to power on a wave of change from below on the other – we see tremendous opportunity. The time is ripe to create a step change in terms of awareness, excitement, and membership in Acumen Fund’s community of supporters and advocates – from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands…and someday millions of people who believe that markets and entrepreneurship have a central role to play in the global fight on poverty.

We need someone to help us make this happen, so we’re hiring for a Business Development Manager – Marketing. What does that mean? It means we’re looking for a storyteller, a translator, and a listener, who at the same time is ready to roll up their sleeves with data and numbers and analytics. You might be a great blogger or an old-school marketer with lots of new tricks up your sleeves. But either way you bring off-the-charts passion, energy, commitment, and humility to this role.

Put another way, you’re probably either a super-duper marketer who knows how to use online tools, or you’re world-class with online tools and also have got some great marketing ideas. If you’re neither of these things, this job (PDF) probably isn’t for you.

We’d like to see what you can do – details on how to apply are on this Squidoo lens.

Apply now for 2009 Summer Associate positions

Monday, February 2nd, 2009

We really hope it’s not too late. You may have already secured a great summer internship for 2009…if so, we’re happy for you. But if you’re waiting to hear back, or haven’t had the chance to apply as yet, then maybe you’re in luck. We are a little late in posting these (we’re sorry!) but are very happy to announce that we’re hiring a slew of Summer Associates to work in our New York, India and Pakistan offices.

All the details – position descriptions, duration, supervisor info, compensation, application instructions – can be found on the Work with Acumen page of our (now-resuscitated) web site.

Applications will be accepted only until February 20, so please apply today and help us spread the word to friends, colleagues, and others who might be interested.

Last year’s Summer Associates were a great bunch. I’m sure 2009’s crop will be just as fantastic…

When your website goes down, it has a way of showing you who your friends really are

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

UPDATE: The Acumen Fund web site is back up! Thanks again for all your e-mails and, most of all, for your patience. (January 30, 2009)

To: Acumen Fund friends, Partners, community members and website visitors

From: Acumen Fund staff

Re: Unscheduled, unplanned website maintenance

Memo: Thank you! Our website went down this morning (New York time) for some “unscheduled, unplanned maintenance,” as we’re calling it. Basically, our server had a big hiccup and we’re in the process of restoring our data, backing everything up, and re-starting the whole shebang. Almost as soon as it happened, we started getting e-mails from you – our friends, colleagues, partners, Partners, community members, fans – to let us know what was up. As much as we don’t like to get caught with our servers down, it is totally refreshing and reassuring to know that there are so many of you out there who care enough to write. So seriously, thanks.

We’re working as hard as we can to get this fixed. In the meantime, might we suggest a visit to our YouTube channel? How about our Fellows blog? Or NextBillion.net, which Acumen Fund co-owns? There’s also the Facebook cause, the LinkedIn group – you get the idea.

We hope you’ll bear with us as we make these fixes. Thanks again to everyone who wrote – we’ll post again here on the blog when life is back to normal.

Gratefully,

Acumen Fund

Work with Acumen Fund – 3 new positions now open

Friday, January 23rd, 2009

Acumen Fund believes that talent is one of the key needs in the social enterprise sector—individuals with the skill and will to effect change in developing markets. If you are interested in job opportunities at Acumen Fund, we just announced three new positions that are now in active recruitment. A fourth is also listed on the Work with Acumen page of our website.

The new positions are:

Senior Portfolio Fellow

Capital Markets Manager

Pakistan Portfolio Manager

Please see the job descriptions (links to the PDF are above) for details and information on how to apply.

Taking a Break Until 2009

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

The Acumen Fund blog is taking a short break – we won’t post again until early 2009. Thanks for everyone’s comments, suggestions and feedback during the course of the past year. It’s been a year like no other – in good and bad ways – but I think I speak for everyone at Acumen Fund when I say that we have real hope for 2009 and beyond.