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28 Aug 2014

Full-Time Frontier Market Scout Fellow

Frontier Market Scouts – Posted by FMS2014 –  Anywhere

Job Description

Launch your career in impact investment and social enterprise management in 2015!

Frontier Market Scouts (FMS) trains and places aspiring professionals in emerging markets, working directly with social entrepreneurs and impact investors to use business practices for poverty alleviation.

The program includes an intensive, two-week certificate training that prepares fellows for 3-12 month field assignments with social enterprises and impact investment foundations in the US and abroad. While on assignment, fellows provide due diligence for investors and technical assistance for entrepreneurs to discover innovations, improve business processes, attract investments and promote sustainable business models.

The FMS training curriculum is delivered by leading social entrepreneurs and investors and covers the following topics:

+Scaling High-Impact Social Enterprises
+Designing an Innovative Business Model
+Diligence Process and Decision in Impact Investment
+Profiling Ventures for Impact Investing

Winter 2015 Trainings are offered in Monterey, California and Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Monterey, CA: January 12-23, 2015
Amsterdam, NL: February 16-27, 2015

Who are we seeking?

FMS is looking for passionate and pragmatic idealists who hold a strong belief in enterprise and market development as the most important means to large scale and sustainable improvement of living standards in developing countries. The ideal Frontier Market Scout also has a solid background in business and/or management, and a superb aptitude for immersive learning in dramatically different environments. Applicants should have completed a Bachelor’s degree or its equivalence, although highly qualified undergraduate applicants may also be considered.

Training Scholarships and Stipends

*A limited number of merit and need-based training scholarships are available.

*Fellows receive a minimum $250 USD monthly stipend during their field assignment.

*Additional funding to offset travel, training, and living costs may be available. Please note: stipends can vary depending on placement location.

About Frontier Market Scouts

Jointly developed in 2011 by the Monterey Institute of International Studies, Sanghata Global, and Village Capital, the Frontier Market Scouts program has trained over 240 social enterprise professionals and graduate students from 20 countries worldwide. FMS fellows have helped to scale over 100 social enterprises around the world during field assignments based in Amsterdam, Brazil, India, Ecuador, Vietnam, Tanzania, Kenya, South Africa, and Lebanon. Training faculty come from renowned social enterprise organizations such as Village Capital, Shell Foundation, Invested Development and more.

For more information, visit www.fmscouts.org. Read our blog at blogs.miis.edu/frontier/. Follow us on Twitter @FMScouts and on Facebook at facebook.com/frontiermarketscouts.

How to Apply

Candidates can apply online at http://go.miis.edu/fmsapp. Candidates interested in winter 2015 fellowships should apply by September 5, 2014. If you have additional questions, please email [email protected] or call Erina McWilliam-Lopez on (831) 647-4645.

Job Categories: Social Entrepreneurship. Job Types: Full-Time. Job Tags: Corporate Social Responsability, education, Impact Investing, international development, Public And Nonprofit Management, Social Enterprises, Social Entreprenership, and sustainability.

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