Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company (Kaizen) is an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally driven development and spur sustainable entrepreneurship and investments. We leverage existing knowledge, new technologies, local peer networks, and innovative business models to support local reforms that are sustained through market forces.
Since our inception, we have provided support to more than 300 government, private-sector, and non-profit organizations in emerging markets worldwide. We have created solutions that achieve outcomes across a broad range of sectors including education, health, finance, agriculture, governance, economic growth, energy and environment, and water.
Kaizen is seeking a GUC/Investment Specialist for the USAID/She Leads Pakistan Rises activity, (SLPRA). The SLPRA will increase women’s participation in Pakistan’s economy by supporting women-led businesses (WLBs), including start-ups and micro, small and medium enterprises (MSME). The activity will achieve this through four mutually reinforcing objectives that aim to address underlying root causes obstructing WLBs from progressing.
The objectives of SLPRA are:
Objective 1: Strengthen business enabling environment for women-led businesses
Objective 2: Improved Access to Economic Resources
- Increased Access to Capital
- Improved business performance, climate resilience and adaptation, and supply chain linkages
- Increased access to markets and reduced gender digital divide
Objective 3: Strengthen startups ecosystem
Objective 4: Supporting Pakistan’s response to economic shocks and opportunities
ResponsibilitiesThe GUC / Investment Specialist will lead the GUC and private equity fund component of the activity. The GUC /Investment Specialist provides support to women led startups to scale their businesses, build resilience, and create job opportunities. GUC / Investment Specialist will provide technical services to establish and operationalize a private investment fund (Enterprise Fund) to provide sustainable access to capital to the WLBs.
Minimum Qualifications- Minimum of years senior management level experience in grants management, investment, fund management or the related field.
- Masters degree in trade and investment, business, finance, public administration, international development, or other related discipline.
- Experience working with women-led businesses to grow and gain access to capital.
- Experience work with financial service providers, including local commercial and microfinance banks, non-bank financial institutions, and fintech to develop traditional and digital financial services that improve access for WLBs.
- Experience preparing WLBs to receive capital through alternative sources including angel/seed investors, venture capitalists, private equity funds, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, and other investment platforms;
Position is dependent on award of activity.
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At Kaizen, A Tetra Tech Company, we find strength in our diversity. We are committed to creating and sustaining an inclusive working environment in which everyone has an equal opportunity to fulfill their potential. We know that we can only do development differently if we are open to and inclusive of new and unique perspectives. We encourage candidates of all abilities, ages, gender identities and expressions, national origins, races and ethnicities, religious beliefs, and sexual orientations to apply. Further, we urge parents and non-parents, married and unmarried, those from different or non-traditional educational backgrounds, and persons of all other diverse identities or experiences to apply. Kaizen is an equal opportunity employer.
