Social Enterprise Job Openings

by Nathaniel Whittemore · 2009-01-28 13:03:00 UTC
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The economy is hitting the social sectors hard. I know a lot of people in the Change.org community have been hit by either a financial scandal or the recession in general and laid off from their nonprofit jobs. In the spirit of letting people know that there are still great organizations looking for great people, I wanted to post job announcements from two of the coolest folks in the social enterprise world.

Pop!Tech is an incredible annual conference (which takes place in my home state of Maine!) that brings some of the world's most creative thinkers from across industry's for a week of transformative ideas and action. This year, they launched the Pop!Tech Accelerator program to help social innovators (including Global Citizen Year, Ushahidi, and FrontlineSMS) expand their capacity to build revolutionary organizations.

They're currently hiring a Vice President of Business Development and a Director of Marketing and Communications, both based in New York City. Read more here.

Check out this presentation by Erik Hersman of Ushahidi at the last Pop!Tech event:

The Acumen Fund is an innovative organization that invests in developing world social enterprises that use market strategies to solve social problems and bring communities out of poverty. They're currently expanding their investment portfolio, innovating around measurement with the Pulse project, and they're looking to hire four new staffers:

Read more here, or watch the TED talk by Acumen founder Jacqueline Novogratz below.

Nathaniel Whittemore is the founder of Assetmap. Previously he was the founding director of the Northwestern University Center for Global Engagement.
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