Associate, Adapting the Fellows Program for Rural and Community-Based Leaders

Acumen Academy is seeking an Associate, with at least 5 years of experience, who speaks and writes Spanish fluently and can converse and write at a medium level in English, and is willing to travel around Colombia 4 – 6 weeks of the year, to lead operations on our new Leadership Program that we are adapting to rural and community-based leaders. 

About Acumen
Acumen is changing the way the world tackles poverty by investing in companies, leaders and ideas. We invest patient capital in businesses whose products and services offer important opportunities to people living in poverty. To date, Acumen has positively impacted over 500 million lives by investing $154.4M in 167 innovative, early-stage companies in Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the United States. But investment isn’t only about capital, we’ve been investing in innovators for years, connecting with emerging leaders around the world and engaging them in collective dialogue, moral inquiry, and skill building.

About Acumen Academy
Acumen Academy is the world’s school for social change. We aim to unleash a new generation of social innovators and leaders with the character and competence to build a more just, inclusive, and sustainable world. Anyone with an internet connection, anywhere in the world, can access the practical tools, practices, resources, and supportive community they need to achieve positive social change. With 1,500 Fellow alumni, and 1.2million course sign-ups from 193 countries, the Acumen Academy community represents a new generation of social innovators and leaders committed to doing what’s right in a world that loves easy.

About Acumen Academy in Latin America
Acumen Academy Latin America is grounding Academy’s vision in the reality of the region. We are democratizing access to knowledge to create a community of builders dedicated to social change with the skills, values, and intention to change the narrative of Latin America. The new Leadership Development Program for rural and grassroots leaders in Colombia is an adaptation of our renown Fellow Program for a rural audience that will launch its first cohort in 2024.

About the role 
We are looking for someone to take accountability for the overall experience of our Leadership Program for rural and grassroots leaders.

Accountabilities

Lead Program Operations

Act as team lead on the adaptation of our Fellows program: oversee program operations, define the program delivery calendar annually, make adjustments and adapt to the global survey and templates, so they respond to the needs of the regions.

Run Program from start to finish:

• Be accountable for the overall program experience, identify opportunities for improvement, coordinate with curriculum.
• Collaborate with marketing and regional counterparts to run recruitment campaigns.
• Lead selection process.
• Evolve our facilitator guides and materials to ensure facilitators have everything they need to run weekly sessions.
• Coordinate a team of contract facilitators.
• Support participants on a weekly basis during the program, including responding to inquiries and individual consultation calls as needed.

Impact Reporting and Quality Assurance

• Understand our local impact thesis and the implications (such as design and data collection) during training and accompaniment.
• Collate and share key program results and insights with program team and broader Academy teams, as well as with funders and other external stakeholders.
• Work in close partnership with local teams and Academy Directors to provide proposal development input for leadership program.

Skills and Qualifications

• Facilitation experience or teacher with at least 5 years of relevant professional experience
• Solid operational skills: project and stakeholder management skills and timely deliverables.
• Experience working with online learning platforms or building online courses
• Comfort engaging with people online and in person.
• Fluent in Spanish (ability to speak and write clearly). Medium English level.
• Experience designing and executing public events, online and in person.
• Problem solving and project management skills, able to effectively coordinate all program components on a schedule.
• Ability to work and deliver projects independently, proactively and under pressure.
• Ability to get the details right.
• Strong analytic and excel skills.
• Able to analyze key programmatic and operational insights and recommend shifts accordingly.
• Effective collaborator who is able to work with different colleagues and personalities, at all levels both externally and internally, and across a variety of functions and geographies.
• Must live in Colombia.
• Must be willing to travel across Colombia 4 – 6 weeks a year.
• Previous participation in leadership or professional development program preferred.
• Experience facilitating leadership development or social innovation programs preferred.

Location 
Colombia

Deadline 
The deadline to apply for this position is December 4th, but candidates are encouraged to apply early, as applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis.