[TC-I Call to Action]: Our weekly review of opportunities

TC-I Call to Action is our weekly segment highlighting opportunities for our readers to get involved in the Social Entrepreneurship movement. Check this space for job and internship opportunities, fellowships and grants. If you have any jobs / opportunities to be featured in this segment, drop us a word at info@thinkchangeindia.org
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Job Opening: Community Resource Consultant, ACS

The American Cancer Society is looking for a US student to act as a Consultant and spend 10 weeks in Ahmedabad, India conducting an assessment of resources available to assist cancer patients with varied needs during their cancer journey, map available resource against the cancer patient needs and highlight gaps. The job is paid and [...]

Job: Senior Associate at Unitus Equity Fund

The job, located in Bangalore, will consist of being part of a team that makes “equity investments in entrepreneurially driven microfinance institutions and related businesses that aim to create opportunities for the poor and unserved. The successful candidate must have significant transaction experience gained in a venture capital or private equity fund or in a [...]

Job Opportunity: Legal Associate, Portfolio Associate with the Acumen Fund

Acumen Fund’s India office is looking for highly qualified candidates for the positions of “Legal Associate” and “Portfolio Associate.” The location of both positions is Hyderabad, and applications are due April 15, 2008. The job descriptions follow:
India Legal Associate: The legal associate at Acumen Fund’s country office in India will provide a [...]

Justmeans launches new site

Justmeans, the network for jobs and news in corporate social responsibility and social ventures has announced the launch of its new, open-source, scalable website for networking. As part of their new approach, they are launching the “Conference Connector”, by which the company runs networking during and after conferences. The upcoming conferences in which [...]

Gore launches Climate Project-India, job opportunities

Brought to our attention by Tim Fox at the India Development Blog, Al Gore has recently launched The Climate Project-India. Fox actually noted in his recent blog post that he has been selected as one of the workshop participants. The website is rather bare right now, however, over the next few weeks and months the [...]

Job Openings at SKS Foundation, Hyderabad, India

There are currently two openings at SKS Foundation that we thought our readers might be interested in: 1) Summer Intern at the Ultra Poor Program and 2) Program Director.  First, here is a brief description of SKS Foundation:
Swayam Krishi Sangam Foundation is a non-profit arm of SKS Microfinance.  SKS Foundation is determined to eradicate poverty in India through [...]

Multiple Openings at Oxfam India

From Pro Poor:
Oxfam seeks outstanding leaders and experienced change managers to build and lead the newly integrated Oxfam India. The organisation will be drawn from six existing organisations working in India, Oxfam India, Oxfam GB, Oxfam Novib, Oxfam Australia, Oxfam Hong Kong and Intermon Oxfam (Spain) who have been operating in [...]

Country Director for Aid et Action, India

From ProPoor:
Over the past twenty-six years AEAI’s operations have spread over 12 states and 3 Union Territories in India in partnership with Civil Society Organizations and through directly implemented projects.
With a staff of approximately 100 people (plus approximately 400 indirectly employed by AEAI on projects), AEAI has been working in the [...]

MBAs Without Borders

From NGO Post:
MBAs Without Borders (MWB) is bringing innovative solutions to developing countries by matching experienced business volunteers with local businesses and NGOs to unleash a big secret… Business can do Amazing Things!
MWB’s volunteers provide a wide range of business support services in Africa, Asia and Latin America which includes locations such as: Cambodia, Colombia, [...]

Lending a Helping Hand in Hand

Based on last year’s success, Hand in Hand is hosting interns again this summer. The projects will take place in Kanchipuram, 2 hours west of Chennai. Projects range from solid waste management to enhancing entrepreneurial skills among MFI clients:
Every summer, Hand in Hand offers a four-week internship programme focused on well-defined projects and deliverables. [...]

Job opportunity at d.light design

From NextBillion. d.light Design is a hot new BOP start-up with funding from who’s who of the social venture capital world. They are looking for a VP - Sales to be based out of New Delhi.
Position: Vice-President, Sales
Location: India
Organization: The goal of d.light design is simple – to eradicate kerosene lanterns from the face of [...]

Social-Impact Fellowship in Hyderbad

From the Social-Impact website:
Social-Impact is a new international professional development programme. Our goal is to accelerate growth and increase impact of social entrepreneurs’ projects and/or organizations. Social-Impact’s programme provides social entrepreneurs with:

Mentoring
Training
Technical assistance consulting
Networking opportunities and
Access to financing

Our comprehensive and customized technical and financial services will enable social entrepreneurs to step up significantly their development [...]

Deshpande Foundation Fellowship in NW Karnataka

The Deshpande Foundation is a Boston based philanthropic foundation focused on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and International Development. They recently launched three unique fellowship opportunities, where fellows can get grassroots experience working in Northwest region of Karnataka

Sandbox Fellow: This is a year-long program for young professionals or post-graduate school candidates who seek an extended experience working in [...]

Engineers for Social Impact (E4SI) Launches New Microfinance and Social Enterprise Fellowship Program in India

from MicroCapital.org by Mary Fu

Engineers for Social Impact (E4SI), a new fellowship program in India, has begun its recruitment process to match the top five undergraduate candidates from Indian engineering schools with five partner social enterprises that are focusing on development by means of sustainable for-profit entrepreneurship. (more…)