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Acumen is seeking a Compensation Consultant. This is a short-term consulting opportunity. The incumbent will be someone who has had experience setting up and implementing compensation benchmarks in a start-up, private sector, or in non-profit organizations. This person will work under the leadership of the Director of Talent.
This role is located in NYC (lower Manhattan). We work in a hybrid model, 3 days in the office per week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday).
About Acumen
Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. To learn more visit acumen.org.
About Talent
The Talent Team oversees the employee lifecycle across seven countries in eight cities. Our employee value proposition is focused on equity, transparency, representation, and working across lines of difference. Our hiring processes may be perceived as unconventional. For example, we share Total Rewards in the first screen and agree on compensation right up front. We have found that it is better for candidates to have that information from the start and it’s better for Acumen as we have fewer failed searches where candidates decline our offers. The Talent Team is also responsible for Acumen’s People strategy and culture, performance management, compensation, benefits, learning and development.
About the Role
Acumen is in the process of revising/updating its current compensation benchmarks for the US and setting up new comp benchmarks for the UK and for Canada, where we have growing teams. The exercise will include reviewing all current roles (from entry to Executive levels), internal equity, and benchmarking them against market data of similar roles and organizations.
Objectives:
The incumbent will lead an org-wide compensation benchmarking project by analyzing and comparing the organization's current pay structures against market data to ensure competitive and equitable salaries. They'll use industry-specific surveys, job evaluations, and peer group analysis, salary survey data, and implement a pay structure design. We will be investing in the comp data acquisition.
Key Responsibilities include:
Required Qualifications
Deadline
Candidates are encouraged to apply as early as possible as applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis.
Compensation
The salary range for this role is $75,000 to $90,000/yr ($35 - $45/hourly). This range represents the present low and high end of pay range for this role. Actual compensation will vary based on various factors including but not limited to experience.
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Apply to AcumenAcumen Latin America is seeking a Senior Associate to join our Bogotá-based Portfolio team. We are looking for a thoughtful, entrepreneurial, and mission-driven professional with 4–6 years of relevant experience and a strong commitment to tackling poverty and inequality in Latin America.
This role is ideal for someone who combines strong investment judgment with empathy, curiosity, and the ability to work closely with entrepreneurs and rural communities. The right candidate is analytical, proactive, open to different points of view, and energized by finding creative solutions in complex and evolving environments.
About Acumen
Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. To learn more visit acumen.org.
About Acumen Latin America
Acumen began investing in Latin America in 2013, with a focus on Colombia and Peru. Our strategy is centered on backing businesses that serve communities that have faced historical political, economic, and social exclusion, particularly in rural areas. Our Bogotá-based team invests in and supports companies across sectors such as agriculture, education, energy, and other high-impact areas aligned with Acumen’s investment thesis.
About the Role
The Senior Associate will play a key role across the full investment lifecycle: sourcing and evaluating new opportunities, conducting due diligence, structuring transactions, supporting investment committee processes, coordinating disbursements, and actively managing portfolio companies post-investment support.
This person will help assess opportunities from the ground up, including businesses that are not yet in the pipeline, and will work from initial screening through investment decision and closing. The role also requires close partnership with portfolio companies, ranging from support on operational matters to participation in board meetings and strategic discussions.
Responsibilities
Early-Stage Investing
Portfolio Management
Portfolio Operations & Team Contribution
Qualifications
What We’re Looking For
Compensation
Acumen Latin America offers a competitive compensation package commensurate with experience, including benefits.
Location
Bogotá, Colombia
Deadline
Candidates are encouraged to apply early, as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
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Apply to AcumenAcumen, an international nonprofit working to solve problems of poverty, is looking for an Executive Assistant to support the CEO. This role is full time, eligible for overtime, a yearly bonus and benefits. Acumen’s New York office operates on a hybrid schedule, with in-office work Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. While this role is not “always on,” it is often on.
About Acumen
Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. To learn more visit acumen.org.
About the role
The CEO operates at the intersection of global investing, philanthropy, moral leadership, and systems change. Her work spans a complex network of relationships across entrepreneurs, investors, board members, partners, and public thought leaders, often across multiple geographies and time zones in a single day.
This role serves as a trusted operational partner to the CEO, responsible for the excellent execution of the CEO’s time, travel, communications, and day-to-day workflow. But this is more than an administrative role. It requires strong judgment, emotional intelligence, discretion, anticipation, and the ability to protect focus in an environment of constant motion and competing demands.
The Executive Assistant to the CEO will play a critical role in helping the CEO operate at her highest level. That means not only managing logistics with precision, but also understanding priorities, anticipating challenges, reducing friction, and ensuring that relationships and commitments are handled with care.
This role works in close coordination with, and functionally reports to, the Chief of Staff. Success in this role requires operating in true partnership with both the CEO and Chief of Staff — balancing responsiveness with discernment, execution with foresight, and independence with alignment. The person in this role must be able to make sound decisions, remain calm under pressure, and bring maturity, discipline, and humanity to highly visible work.
This role is ideal for a high-energy person who takes pride in making things work and operates exceptionally well behind the scenes, energized by complexity. The right person is genuinely motivated by Acumen’s mission and the opportunity to contribute to work that matters. This job is not for the meek of spirit.
Specific accountabilities include:
Design and manage a dynamic, complex schedule that reflects the CEO’s highest priorities and Acumen’s broader organizational needs
Lead end-to-end travel planning and execution
Help run a highly effective Office of the CEO
Ensure operational excellence and disciplined follow-through
Skills & Qualifications
The salary range for this role is $78,000 to $83,000 USD and is eligible for overtime plus a performance-based bonus. This range represents the present low and high end of pay range for this role. Actual compensation will vary based on various factors including but not limited to experience. Acumen has equal pay, so pay is determined through comparison to a cohort of employees in the market at the same level of accountability.
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Acumen is looking for a Data Systems Manager with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience to build and strengthen our data systems, reporting, and enabling our teams to make data-driven decisions. The role combines technical leadership with team enablement — overseeing architecture, integrations, data governance, and reporting. It also includes building and training a globally distributed data operations team to foster long-term adoption and data excellence. This role is based anywhere in Colombia, with some travel to our office in Bogotá as required.
Anywhere in Colombia
JD in Spanish here. Please send the application in English.
About Acumen
Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. Through our investment adviser Acumen Capital Partners, we are responsible for $166 million in assets under management via our returnable pooled investment funds, which have impacted 238 million lives and offset 48 million metric tons of CO2. To learn more visit acumen.org.
About Acumen Academy
Acumen Academy supports a new generation of social innovators and leaders with the character and competence to solve problems of poverty and build a world based on dignity. With over 2000 Foundry members, 1.3M course sign-ups, and 71 Million lives impacted, the Acumen Academy community represents a new generation of social innovators and leaders committed to solving problems of poverty.
About the role
This Data & Systems Manager role is more than a technical position—it is an opportunity to contribute directly to meaningful, systemic change. By strengthening our data systems and building the capacity of colleagues across our global teams , you will help ensure that our offerings are effective, accountable, and responsive to the people and communities we serve. This role will not focus on data systems like finance, HR, grant management etc. It is specific to impact and operational data.
This role reports to the Associate Director for Acumen Academy and works closely with the Associate Director of Impact and colleagues across multiple regions and time zones. The position is remote-first, with occasional in-person visits to the Bogotá office for collaboration, planning, or key moments of connection. We operate in a hybrid and flexible work environment, where success is measured by outcomes rather than fixed hours, and where trust, autonomy, and clear communication are core to how we work together globally.
You will lead the evolution of our data and reporting ecosystem (Salesforce, Form Assembly, SM Apply, Airtable etc.) while empowering a distributed, global team to confidently use data in their daily work. This role blends technical leadership, project management, internal stakeholder engagement, and people development, and offers the chance to see how your work supports real-world impact at scale.
If you are motivated by purpose, collaboration, and using technology to advance social good, this role offers a meaningful way to align your skills with a mission to change lives.
What You’ll Do
Systems Architecture & Implementation
Data Quality, Reporting & Governance
Team Enablement & Capacity Building
What We’re Looking For
Required Experience
Nice to Have (Not Required)
Skills and Qualifications
We strongly encourage women and candidates from underrepresented backgrounds to apply, even if you don’t meet every qualification listed.
Deadline
Candidates are encouraged to apply early, as applications will be reviewed and candidates interviewed on a rolling basis, and the role might be filled before the deadline.
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Acumen is seeking a highly motivated, thoughtful, and curious Senior Associate, Insights with atleast 5 years of experience to support the delivery of a rigorous learning agenda for a transformative business and economic empowerment program across Africa with a strong focus on young women, leadership and organizational growth and development. This role will focus on generating high quality insights to inform adaptive program delivery, with a strong emphasis on understanding enterprise growth, work quality, and women’s participation in the green economy.This role will be based out of Acumen’s office in Nairobi or Lagos, with an expectation of working from the office 3 days a week.
About Acumen
Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. To learn more visit acumen.org.
About the Role
As the Senior Associate, Insights, you will support the execution of the program’s learning agenda, working across program teams and partners to generate actional insights that inform program delivery and strategy.
This role sits within the Insights function, focusing on the ‘why’ and ‘so what’ behind program results. You will lead qualitative and mixed-methods data collection and analyze findings. You will also synthesize findings into clear insights and contribute to learning outputs that shape adaptive management and thought leadership.
You will report to the Program Insights Lead and program teams across multiple workstreams. The role requires strong execution, structured thinking, and the ability to translate complex data into meaningful insights.
Accountabilities include:
Execution of the Program Learning Agenda
Insight Generation and Analysis
Adaptive Learning and Program Support
Knowledge Products and Thought Leadership
Skills and Qualifications
Desirable
Location: Nairobi (East Africa) or Lagos (West Africa)
Acumen is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, differential ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, or background.
Applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis.
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Acumen is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Impact Manager with at least 8 years of work experience to provide Reporting, Data and Analytics leadership at a regional level for a transformative business and economic empowerment programme across Africa with a strong focus on young women.
This role will be based out of Acumen office in Nairobi or Lagos with an expectation of working from office 3 days a week. Remote from other geographies is not an option.
About Acumen
Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. To learn more visit acumen.org.
About the role
As the Impact Manager: Reporting, Data and Analytics you will be responsible for designing and implementing the technology solution for the programmatic MEL framework. That is potentially adapting existing solutions like Salesforce and Google sheets, or creating/identifying new technology solutions, to ensure that the MEL framework has a functioning and efficient technology platform, routine reporting on key data points. We expect the role to focus on continual identification of system and data management and reporting improvements. We expect candidates to be highly technically efficient with data and software solutions with growing skills in the use of AI.
You will work closely with the Impact Manager: Monitoring, Evaluation and learning. The Impact Manager: Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning will focus on MEL framework design and implementation and adaptive learning.
Additionally, you will work closely with other Impact & Insight staff based in the UK and in East and West Africa.
The postholder is expected to travel occasionally within the region.
Accountabilities include:
MEL framework design and implementation
Programme data management
Knowledge Management and Learning
Capacity building - team and partners
Skills and qualifications
Location: Nairobi (East Africa) or Lagos (West Africa)
Acumen is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, differential ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, or background.
Applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis.
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Apply to AcumenAcumen is seeking an Investment Manager with at least 8 years of work experience wherein minimum 4 years of investment experience in venture capital, private equity, investment banking, or investment management is required.
About Acumen
Acumen is a global force of entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, and social innovators working together to build a world based on dignity. We were founded by Jacqueline Novogratz on the radical idea that business, when cultivated with moral imagination, can break the cycle of poverty. We invest in transformational companies, build sustainable markets, and prepare leaders with the tools they need to create a more just and inclusive future. Since 2001, we have scaled companies and shaped markets in some of the hardest-to-reach communities on the planet, impacting over half-a-billion lives. To learn more visit acumen.org.
About the Role
The Investment Manager will evaluate new investment opportunities, conduct due diligence high potential opportunities as they arise, and structure deal terms as well as manage our existing portfolio and actively drive and deliver exits from investments that have served their purpose. The Portfolio Manager will also actively look at the evolving pipeline and the innovations landscape to advise and support the sector lead of the thesis in agriculture . The role will model the principles of investing as detailed by Acumen.
Responsibilities include:
Identifying investment opportunities and due diligence
Post Investment and Metric Evaluation
Knowledge Management and Thought Leadership:
Qualifications and Experience
Deadline to apply
Acumen is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, differential ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, or background.
Applications will be reviewed and interviews scheduled on a rolling basis.
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