Vittana is looking for a Marketing/PR Manager based in Seattle, with the following responsibilities:

• Shape a fun, inspiring and effective public personality for Vittana
  • Developing the right site, community and media messaging
  • Balancing many different personality requirements: fun, inspiring, humble, genuine, effective
  • Training our CEO and external-facing team members to make sure they stay on message
• Drive a regular flow of effective, meaningful media hits
  • Developing and maintaining personal relationships of trust with journalists and media outlets
  • Developing a long-term arc of stories and angles over the next year for different media outlets
  • Researching background on, approaching/cold-calling journalists and doing whatever else it takes to get the “right” story
• Improve our website product iteratively over time
  • Collaborating with our CEO, CTO and top-tier design, PR and startup advisors
  • Shaping website messaging in accordance with the public personality you’ll develop
  • Quantitatively tracking website performance and critical customer metrics: visitor-to-lender conversion rate, retention and visit frequency, website virality (k-factor)
  • Increasing said customer and conversion metrics through creativity and A/B testing
• Develop and implement a marketing strategy using both traditional and non-traditional media
  • Building out a deep, effective, sustained social media presence: Facebook, twitter, blog
  • Collaborating with our Communities Manager to develop a bottom-up marketing strategy
  • Experimenting with and developing innovative, effective non-traditional marketing tactics
  • Making it all happen — ultimately, are more students getting loans through Vittana every month because of you?
• Helping manage volunteers, bloggers, interns and (eventually) other staff
• Collaborating with our Communities Manager to develop a fun, innovative work environment
• Offloading as much work as possible from our CEO before his head explodes
• Doing whatever else it takes to get this bird off the ground

More details available here.

I recently received the latest Wokai newsletter and wanted to highlight the fact that they have three open positions (based in Bejing) — a lead developer, executive fellow, and a marketing director.

You can see more details regarding all three positions here.

There are two positions available at Hope International:

- Managing Director, Democratic Republic of Congo

- Information Technology Administrator, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

HOPE International (HOPE) is a Christian faith-based, 501(c)(3) non-profit organization focused on alleviating physical and spiritual poverty through microenterprise development.

There are three available positions at Washington CASH:

• Volunteer Coordinator/Program Assistant
• Business Specialist
• Business Groups Coordinator

The Silicon Valley Microfinance Network is looking for a new Executive Director. If you are in the Bay Area — or willing to relocate — and interested in getting more experience in the microfinance industry, this could be a great fit. From their website:

–Responsibilities–
The SVMN Board of Directors is looking for a strong, entrepreneurial leader with a passion for microfinance. The Executive Director will be tasked with taking this new organization to the next level, from a growing start-up organization to a robust, professional network. The Executive Director will be responsible for the overall strategic vision of the organization as well as the day to day management. Reporting to the Board of Directors, the Executive Director will start at 60% time, increasing as soon as possible to a larger role as SVMN’s activity base grows.

Specifically, the Executive Director will:

 Develop and implement a long term strategy with the Board of Directors
 Design and implement a marketing program to increase membership
 Manage fundraising required to support the financial requirements of SVMN
 Enhance and manage the Speaker Series program
 Continue to develop the website into a world class microfinance resource for members and non-members
 Develop additional microfinance-related programs or services of interest to SVMN members
 Leverage the membership by building a volunteer network to help run SVMN events and programs
 Manage legal, accounting and governance issues with guidance from the Board of Directors
 Manage communications with the Board of Directors
 Create business performance measurements / metrics to track improvements.

–Qualifications–
Successful applicants will be flexible, with both the strategic leadership of a seasoned business executive and the desire to roll up his/her sleeves in the start-up stage of development. Specifically,
 Excels at and enjoys networking
 Strong event planning skills
 Ability to coordinate and manage volunteers
 Passion for and knowledge of microfinance a must
 Skilled at fundraising
 Enjoys intellectual challenge and fast pace
 Thrives in an entrepreneurial environment
 Strategy and business plan writing experience
 Willingness to work from home
 Flexibility to work part time

–Application Process–
Please submit your cover letter and resume to april@svmn.net

-The Mastercard Foundation – Senior Program Manager, Atlanta
Mastercard is hiring a Senior Program Manager for its Atlanta office to work in the Microfinance Program. Here is a brief description:

Reporting to the Director of the microfinance program and working closely with the Foundation’s senior management, the Senior Program Manager will identify, build and manage relationships with organizations with which the Foundation can work to fulfill its strategies.

For more information, visit the job posting at JustMeans.

This posting courtesy of SeaMO

-Here are some Microfinance jobs for people wanting to venture to Kenya:
A newly formed Micro Finance institution with a country wide network is seeking to recruit highly talented professionals to contribute positively to its business growth. To qualify for these positions, interested candidates must have a proven track record of performance; possess excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills. Computer literacy, ability to meet deadlines and deliver under pressure is a must.
Openings include: AREA MANAGERS (3 POSITIONS), BUSINESS SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATOR (1 POSITION), BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANTS (12 POSITIONS),

This posting courtesy of Career Point Kenya

If you are a) a big fan of Kiva and b) enjoy helping others, and c) live in the Bay area — then there is a strong chance you may be interested in the Kiva Customer Service Intern position they are currently looking to fill:

Job Description: Kiva’s lender team, which focuses on providing resources and support to our network of more than 300,000 lenders world-wide is seeking an intern to help take on current processes, such as responding to lender inquiries by email and phone as well as work on special projects that will help deepen the lending experience and engage lenders in Kiva’s model.

Core Skills and Experience:

• Strong skills with web applications: wiki, gmail, Salesforce
• Superior customer service orientation, both for internal and external audiences
• Great team player
• Superior organizational and problem-solving skills
• Someone with a “ready to help” attitude; friendly personality
• Evolved time management skills and a proven track record of managing projects

There are currently three open internships at ACCION International I wanted to highlight:

• Summer Intern, Investments — DC
  
• Summer Intern, Research — DC
  
• Summer Intern, Communication — Boston

[via Francisco Eguiguren Jauregui]

Kiva.org just released an announcement that they are hiring for two positions. With the economy going the way it is, there aren’t to many new jobs in microfinance.  So this is a great opportunity for someone looking to get into the field.

Here’s a description of their openings:

Product Manager, Consumer Applications:
Kiva is seeking an enthusiastic, seasoned Product Manager to guide the lender experience of the world’s leading micro-lending marketplace. You will bring your experience and excitement for consumer web applications and apply everything you know to help Kiva reach its potential to the fullest. We really are changing the world, one person and one loan at a time.

Software Engineer:
Kiva is seeking an enthusiastic, sharp software engineer to join our rapidly growing team full-time, and help us change the world even faster.

Responsibilities Include:
* Build new functionality for our website
* Collaborate with business owners and other engineers to find solutions
* Write efficient and maintainable code
* Testing (both manual and automated test suites)
* Participate in design process, prototype new functionality
* Anything else that Kiva needs to get done!

For those who are looking for experience in the microfinance field, Microplace has another open internship they are looking to fill — this one in marketing strategy research. If you’re interested in applying, you can e-mail Tracy Turner at tracey@microplace.com.

[via Los Angeles Microfinance Network]