[Hiring] Vice President, Africa & Middle East @Village Capital

Role Description

Village Capital is hiring a Vice President to lead our Africa and the Middle East portfolio. This is a 12-month fixed-term position, with the possibility of extension if Village Capital meets its funding targets. This is a senior, externally visible leadership role for an investment professional with a track record in fundraising and partnership relationship management.

• Trusted by funders, investors, government partners, and foundation leaders.
• Operational excellence and partnership growth as equally important priorities.
• Solid understanding of the investment landscape, including early-stage investment capital (equity, debt, hybrid), blended capital, and philanthropic capital.
• Manage regionally distributed teams leading both investment transactions and direct entrepreneur support.
• Fluent enough to oversee and drive a strategy that mobilizes capital to entrepreneurs in the Africa and Middle East region.
• Delegate with confidence, develop the people around them, and hold teams accountable without micromanaging.
• Multidisciplinary, comfortable in investor meetings and program design sessions.
• Brings a systems-change approach to problem-solving.

Qualifications

• Mission-driven leader with investment experience in banking, entrepreneurship, impact investing, or international development.
• Credible overseeing entrepreneur support programs, investment strategy, and funder and investor relationships.
• Fluent in the language of early-stage investment capital, including venture capital (equity, debt, hybrid), blended capital, and philanthropic capital.
• Comfortable leading investment strategy conversations while supporting execution teams.
• Leads with confidence and humility, managing with cultural fluency.
• Works seamlessly across teams, actively building relationships and coordinating with internal stakeholders.

Requirements

• 8+ years of investment experience in banking, entrepreneurship, impact investing, or international development; entrepreneur support and ecosystem development a plus.
• Track record of building and running complex, multi-stakeholder lines of business at a high standard.
• Demonstrated track record in business development, including developing fundraising strategy, shaping proposals, and stewarding multi-year funder commitments.
• Experience managing and developing distributed teams across cultures and geographies.
• Understanding of the early-stage investment landscape, tools, structures, and language of venture, blended, and philanthropic capital.
• Experience in the investment space, either from the entrepreneur or investor perspective; impact investing, venture capital, private credit, or DFI experience preferred.
• Culturally fluent, with a real, day-to-day commitment to equity.
• Comfortable operating at a strategic level while staying close enough to spot risk early.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive multi-regional strategy across Africa and the Middle East, ensuring effective alignment between investment and entrepreneur support approaches.
• Identify and advance strategic funding and financing opportunities within and across the regions.
• Actively coordinate with regional and functional teams and leadership.
• Serve as Village Capital's senior representative for the regional portfolio.
• Partner with cross-functional colleagues to ensure integrated and quality execution.
• Stay current on trends in entrepreneurship, venture capital, innovative finance, philanthropic capital, and blended finance relevant to the region.
• Lead strategic stakeholder engagement and business development across the regions.
• Cultivate and steward relationships with investors, foundations, corporations, governments, and funders.
• Co-develop regional and sectoral fundraising strategy and maintain a clear fundraising roadmap for the regions.
• Own end-to-end delivery of entrepreneur support programs and investment initiatives.
• Oversee execution of investment transactions and improve due diligence processes.
• Manage and support a geographically distributed team, including entrepreneur support delivery staff, investment staff, and contractors.
• Maintain strategic oversight of ecosystem engagement across regions.
• Lead development and review of region-specific reports for funders and stakeholders.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Opportunity for professional development and growth.
• Work in a mission-driven organization focused on social impact.