VP, Africa & Middle East Practice

Role Overview

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. They'll be trusted by funders, investors, government partners, and foundation leaders, and will hold operational excellence and partnership growth as equally important, mutually reinforcing priorities.

They'll bring a solid understanding of the investment landscape, including the tools, structures, and language of early-stage investment capital (equity, debt, hybrid), blended capital, and philanthropic capital, to complement their operational and business development leadership in-region. They will manage regionally distributed teams leading both investment transactions and direct entrepreneur support, and must be fluent enough to oversee and drive a strategy that mobilizes capital to entrepreneurs in the Africa and Middle East region.

The Vice President will delegate with confidence, develop the people around them, and hold teams accountable without micromanaging. They are multidisciplinary, as comfortable in an investor meeting as in a program design session with a donor, and bring a systems-change approach to problem-solving in both settings.
Candidate Profile

The Vice President, Africa & Middle East is a mission-driven leader with investment experience in banking, entrepreneurship, impact investing, or international development, and is equally credible overseeing entrepreneur support programs, investment strategy, and funder and investor relationships. They are fluent in the language of early-stage investment capital, including venture capital (equity, debt, hybrid), blended capital, and philanthropic capital, and comfortable leading investment strategy conversations while supporting execution teams.

They lead with confidence and humility, and manage with cultural fluency. Critically, they work seamlessly across teams, actively building relationships and coordinating with internal stakeholders in different functions to accomplish shared goals.
Key Responsibilities
Strategy & Regional Leadership

- Drive multi-regional strategy across Africa and the Middle East, ensuring effective alignment between investment and entrepreneur support approaches, and coherence between regional priorities and Village Capital 's global direction.

- Identify and advance strategic funding and financing opportunities within and across the regions, surfacing insights and recommendations as a member of the organizational leadership.

- Actively coordinate with regional and functional teams and leadership, collaborating on resource allocation and strategy, sharing learnings, and operating with a ‘one VilCap’ mindset, to ensure seamless integration across teams and to support organizational objectives.

- Serve as Village Capital 's senior representative for the regional portfolio, both internally and externally.

- Partner with cross-functional colleagues (communications, business development, finance, data and impact, and other regional teams) 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.

Partnership Development & Fundraising

- Lead strategic stakeholder engagement and business development across the regions, in collaboration with the Business Development team.

- Cultivate and steward relationships with investors, foundations, corporations, governments, and funders.

- Partner with the Business Development team on proposal development and donor reporting, and with the Communications team on pitch materials and case studies for organizational offerings (e.g., investment and entrepreneur support); provide st