Nesst

**Quiénes somos**:
NESsT is an international non-profit organization with offices in Latin America and Europe and a global leadership team based in the U.S. NESsT's major goal is to transform lives by investing in social enterprises that provide dignified employment for communities facing isolation, discrimination, lack of job skills and poor education while sustaining the planet. We believe that locally-based social enterprises are uniquely qualified to transform these communities. These enterprises are on the ground, have the trust of the communities, and have created businesses aligned with their best interests.

Latin America Acceleration Program Description:
There is a large gap that currently exists in the ecosystems where NESsT is present. Social entrepreneurs are often given support to launch their initial business ideas, but then they are often left on their own to validate and grow their businesses. There is a blatant lack of support for this "missing middle" stage when entrepreneurs continue to need business services as well as philanthropic and soft capital support to build out their businesses.

NESsT, along with its partners, join forces to co-create programs to address this gap and support selected social enterprises working across Chile, Colombia, Perú and Brazil. The programs aim to equip social entrepreneurs to grow their enterprises and provide dignified employment, income and quality of life to vulnerable people in these countries. This, in turn, will impact their families, other community members and customers.

The social enterprises receive hands-on guidance from the NESsT team, external advisors, and private sector co-workers as volunteer mentors to support the social entrepreneurs with their business scale-up plans.

Specifically, NESsT Acceleration Programs provide growth social entrepreneurs with the business services and appropriate financial capital needed to manage and grow their business and impact. As a result, they will be better positioned to improve their storytelling to reach business and social impact objectives. And they will be better able to manage their social enterprise impact. Overall, the programs also increase the awareness of our partners' customers about social enterprise products and services and the dissemination of best practices to the broader social enterprise sector.

**Nuestro impacto**:
**Propósito del cargo**:
The Portfolio Manager will support the investment strategy for a portfolio of high-impact social enterprises in Colombia.
This position will support enterprises once they enter the NESsT portfolio, including assisting the enterprise team to validate their business models and to develop their management and governance, commercial and financial systems, as well as networks and strategies needed to grow their businesses for more significant impact and scale.
The Portfolio Manager will oversee NESsT's "due diligence" review of enterprises, analyzing their financial sustainability and impact potential and proposing investment recommendations for review and approval by the NESsT investment committee.
The Portfolio Manager is also responsible for communications-related activities to increase the visibility and positioning of NESsT and the portfolio among key stakeholders as defined by the program communication plan.
The position will report to the NESsT representative in Colombia and the Portfolio Director and will also work closely with local and international team members to continue to develop and improve NESsT business services and impact methodology overall and to contribute to the growth of the social enterprise sector.
This is a full-time position based in Colombia.

**Principales Responsabilidades**:
Portfolio Development:

- Implement business services, focusing on strengthening the management and governance, marketing and sales, operations and financing and social/environmental impact of each enterprise. Leverage competencies of external mentors and advisors from NESsT's corporate partners.
- Provide ongoing management, monitoring, evaluation, impact measurement and reporting on new and existing investments to recommend opportunities for continuous improvement.
- Work closely with portfolio enterprises to develop annual financial and social goals and business services plans to help enterprises reach their goals.
- Conduct due diligence and financial modelling, and develop investment packages (grants, recoverable grants, patient loans) for social enterprises being assessed to enter the NESsT portfolio in Colombia. Develop the Investment Memo for presentation to the Investment Committee.
- Manage internal systems related to knowledge management and data management and develop reports (technical and administrative) regarding the performance of the portfolio or due diligence members.
- Assist Portfolio Director in coordinating volunteer engagement and learning opportunities for corporate partners. This mentoring network provides technical and b