Entrepreneurship in the territories: is it the right time?
Dana Asia is a philanthropic organisation that has been funding and advising sustainable development initiatives in the Asia and Pacific region since 2011. Dana Asia is a registered not-for-profit in Australia, Singapore,the Philippines, and Cambodia. Dana Asia finds sustainable solutions to overcome poverty by using social business, microfinance,and education as tools to address social problems in impoverished communities through improving access to productive resources and reducing inequalities. Our vision is to blend the attributes of a competitive business mindset with a charitable heart. With this in mind, we can invent a new, more empowering, and sustainable for our friends and partners to invest in.
The Social Business Manager, will be responsible for leading the development of Dana Asia’s social business activity, following the strategy established by the Director of Social Business. The role will facilitate the implementation of new social businesses working with community partners to establish viable enterprises, train the implementing team in essential business skills, advise on better business performance and carefully monitor operations.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead the implementation of social business projects, based on strategic plans and facilitate all stages of the social business development process, incubation, scaling, and sustainability.
- Design and implement appropriate capacity building, business skills upgrade and mentoring of the community partners in aspects of entrepreneurship, business operation and financial reporting.
- Assess potential new social business projects on behalf of Dana Asia and ensure best practice monitoring of existing projects over time.
