Country Director, Nesst Brazil

**Organization Profile**:
**Position Overview**:
The Country Director is the most senior member of NESsT’s staff Brazil. The Director’s primary function is to lead our investment strategy for a portfolio of high impact social enterprises in Brazil, including overseeing the due diligence process, developing investment packages that can help investees validate and prepare to scale their businesses, and providing ongoing monitoring and support through advisory services and by connecting investees with local mentors. The Director will oversee both of NESsT’s programs: 1. The Acceleration Program that supports and invests in enterprises that are positioning to grow and are not yet fully investment ready; 2. The Lirio Fund that supports and invests in enterprises that are already growing and can take patient investment capital.

The Country Director will serve as the representative for NESsT within Brazil, supporting pipeline development for new investments and promoting best practices in the social enterprise sector through networking, speaking engagements, writing articles and other sector-building activities. This position will also be responsible for establishing and nurturing important partnerships in the region with other ecosystem organizations, government and multilateral agencies, and donors.

The position will report to the CEO, and will also work closely with local and international team members to support NESsT's portfolio of enterprises and promote NESsT activities across Brazil.

**Key Duties & Responsibilities**:

- Portfolio Growth and Impact- Develop and implement a customized investment strategy for our portfolio enterprises resulting in their improved social impact and financial sustainability and ultimately contributing to meeting NESsT´s goal of creating dignified employment in Brazil.
- Oversee NESsT’s “due diligence” process for evaluating social enterprises to enter our portfolio, including working with potential investees to develop their financial model and growth strategy. Identify needed blended finance and business services investment package.
- Support the portfolio team to:

- Provide investees with strategic advice, essential support, and training to implement their growth strategy.
- Provide investees with on-going management, monitoring, evaluation and reporting to help them identify growth opportunities and achieve their financial and social impact goals.
- Work to prepare the portfolio for reimbursable financial investments from the NESsT Fund and/or from third-party investors.
- Establish and deepen relationships with key external mentors, advisors and co-investors who provide specialized support to investees (i.e. coaches, mentors, lawyers, etc.) Identify and oversee employee engagement opportunities. Whenever possible, identify potential clients for portfolio enterprises.
- Regional and Sector-building Strategies- Oversee feasibility assessment of establishing a NESsT regional investment fund for social enterprises. Work with management to eventually establish the fund.
- Enhance NESsT brand and visibility through networking, speaking engagements, writing articles, market research, and other sector-building activities.
- Participate in NESsT internal working groups to improve methodology, metrics and overall impact.
- Financial Sustainability- Serve as the NESsT representative in Brazil with key donors, investors, and government and multilateral agencies to support the financial sustainability of the organization, including nurturing relationships with local contacts and collaborating with the fundraising team on reports, proposals, events, and other activities to maintain and deepen donor and investor support.
- Work with the global NEssT team to develop a fundraising strategy for NESsT Brazil and to identify new donors/investors supporting the Brazil program every year.
- Work with the global NEssT team to develop and manage the Brazil budget, including operational and portfolio-related expenses.
- Management- Supervise all staff in the Brazil office. Provide day-to-day management, coaching, training, feedback as well as annual performance reviews.
- Oversee development of staff work plans and monitor staff performance in executing these plans and meeting objectives for work in Brazil as well as global priorities;
- Ensure that all NESst Brazil staff are integrating key documents, events, correspondence, and outcomes into our global database and cloud-based filing systems.
- Serve as the legal representative of NESsT Brazil entity and ensure legislative and regulatory compliance with Brazil legislation.
- Fund (after established)- Develop the Lirio fund into a profitable and scalable business by having responsibility over the P&L.
- Source loan investment opportunities
- Lead completion of due diligence activities within appropriate time frames and schedule
- Present loan deals to the fund’s Credit Committee
- Monitor and design value-creation strategies for