Relevant Industry

Microfinance

Last year, the VisionFund network of microfinance institutions impacted the lives of 3.5 million children all over the world. VisionFund International is the microfinance arm of World Vision, the largest Christian relief, development, and advocacy organization in the world. The VisionFund Network serves over 1.1 million clients and has a portfolio of over USD$400+ million.

VisionFund Tanzania Microfinance Bank Limited (VFT-MFB) is one of the leading Microfinance Banks in Tanzania. It is part of the VisionFund International Network, which has operations in 28 countries in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. VFT-MFB is licensed by the Bank of Tanzania and has got 54 branches and leverages technology to deliver its financial services. Approximately 60% of clients are women.

VisionFund Tanzania Microfinance Bank Limited is searching for 2 (two) Independent Non-Executive Directors to join its board.

The application deadline for this role is 30th August at midnight, 2022.

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Agriculture, Agribusiness

Solidaridad is an international solution-oriented civil society organisation working through eight regional expertise centres working on transforming markets to make them more sustainable and inclusive. Their eight regional expertise centres include Asia, Eastern and Central Africa, Europe, Latin America, North America, South Africa, South America, West Africa and their global Secretariat. They bring together supply chain players and engage them with innovative solutions to improve production, ensuring the transition to a sustainable and inclusive economy that maximises the benefit for all.

Solidaridad strengthens local capacity in developing countries, supports enabling environments for economies to thrive, and improves market access, guided by an approach that gives prominence to producers. Amongst other things, they promote sustainable land use, contribute towards improved working conditions and livelihoods, food security and strengthen dynamic producer organisations. Solidaridad encourages fair and transparent trade, upholds corporate social responsibility, and fosters conscious commodity sourcing and consumption through several practices.

Solidaridad is searching for 2 (two) Non-Executive Directors to join their Africa Continental Supervisory board.

The application deadline for this role is 26th August at midnight, 2022.

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Sector Agnostic

Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic initiative that bets early on exceptional people making the world better. They knit talent into networks, bet on the most promising ideas through diverse forms of competition and support, and equip people to scale through partners and modern tools. To realise this vision, Schmidt Futures uses a broad set of tools — including gifts, grants, investments, and startup activity — for charitable, educational, and commercial efforts with a public purpose. Schmidt Futures’ initiative brings together the efforts of various charitable and non-charitable entities to improve potential impact by making diverse types of capital available to the efforts they support.

Schmidt Futures is searching for 1 (one) Partnerships Director to join its executive team.

The application deadline for this role is 28th August at midnight, 2022.

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Technology

Autodesk Foundation (Autodesk) was established in 2014 with a mission to support the design and creation of innovative solutions to the world's most pressing social and environmental challenges. Autodesk Foundation focuses its support on three Impact Opportunity Areas (IOAs): Energy & Materials, Health & Resilience, Work & Prosperity, investing capital, and in-kind support by leveraging the resources of its corporate parent Autodesk Inc.

Autodesk Foundation aligns its philanthropic offerings with design and engineering and invests in nonprofits and startups, helping to de-risk innovation and bring industry-transforming solutions to scale. They bring early-stage, transformative innovations to market to advance a more sustainable, resilient, and equitable world by facilitating a blend of funding, technical training, and expertise.

Autodesk Foundation will appoint 1 (one) Independent Non-Executive Director to join its board of directors.

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Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Manufacturing

Founded in 1978, Webcor Group is a market and industry leader within the sectors of soft commodities and fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its vision is to be recognized as the leading branded food company in Africa.

For over 40 years Webcor Group has invested in the growth and diversification of Africa’s agro-industrial capabilities, offering a wide range of high-quality products at affordable prices for the African consumer. Its mission is to create sustainable access to food by offering a comprehensive range of high-quality, affordable products easily obtainable via a wide distribution network. With this, they enhance local agricultural and manufacturing sectors, allowing their employees, consumers, and communities to thrive.

Webcor Group will appoint 1 (one) Independent Non-Executive Director to join their board.

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Financial Services

Our client is a Namibian subsidiary of a financial services group. It offers integrated financial services businesses and a universal set of transactional, lending, investment, insurance products and more. The group’s objective is to build long-term franchise value and deliver superior and sustainable returns within acceptable levels of volatility.

The client provides its customers with differentiated and competitive value propositions due to its unique and highly flexible model of leveraging the most appropriate brand, distribution channel, licence, and operating platform available within the portfolio. Their approach is underpinned by the disciplined allocation of financial resources and enabled by digital platforms, which allows the group to optimise the franchise value of its portfolio fully. This has resulted in a long track record of consistent growth in high-quality earnings and superior and sustainable returns for shareholders.

The Namibian subsidiary will appoint 2 (two) Independent Non-Executive Directors to join its board.

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Healthcare

With a growing country-wide network of one-stop medical centres and hospitals, Meridian Health Group is one of the market leaders in providing quality, cost-effective, accessible health care in Kenya and the East Africa region. The company is a leading outpatient and inpatient health services provider across Kenya with three subsidiaries. In 2020, they operated 19 facilities –15 ultra-modern, fully equipped medical facilities providing outpatient services to institutions, organisations, individuals and families, three hospitals and a drug and alcohol recovery centre.

Meridian Health Group is a member of CarePoint (formerly Africa Health Holdings). This Pan-African healthcare company aspires to “build Africa’s healthcare future”, focusing on building high-quality, effective, and sustainable healthcare systems. The company’s mission is to invest in and transform healthcare assets through innovation and technology. They own and operate 65 healthcare facilities (hospitals, medical centres, outpatient clinics, pharmacies, and labs) and serve over 1 million patients annually.

Meridian Health Group will appoint 1 (one) Non-Executive Director to join its board.

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Energy, Solar Power

Founded in 2016, Easy Solar is a leading last-mile distribution and energy access company currently operating in Sierra Leone (since 2016) and Liberia (since 2020). The company is on track to achieve deep penetration in both markets where it has built a very strong brand and an efficient distribution network of 470 points of sales, through which it has distributed more than 130,000 products to date, providing access to energy to over 750,000 people.

Easy Solar is powering and empowering families and businesses across West Africa through its vision of making energy, financial services and life-improving products affordable and accessible for all. They offer a range of products, including solar lanterns, home lighting systems, appliances, improved cookstoves and smartphones on affordable financing plans.

Easy Solar is searching for 1 (one) Independent Chairperson to join its board of directors.

The application deadline for this role is 12th August at midnight, 2022.

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Banking

IFC, a sister organization of the World Bank and a member of the World Bank Group, is the largest global development institution focused on the private sector in developing countries. The Bank Group has set two goals for the world to achieve by 2030: end extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity in every country. IFC offers investment, advisory, and asset management services to encourage private-sector development in less developed countries.

IFC nominates directors to serve on the board of client companies. IFC will nominate 1 (one) Non-Executive Director to join the board of a financial institution (commercial banking) with operations in Kenya.

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Healthcare, Technology

A subsidiary of Africa Health Holdings (CarePoint), Lily Hospitals Limited is one of Nigeria’s growing networks of private healthcare institutions with an outstanding reputation for delivering excellent clinical services. Since their inception under current management in 1998, they have remained at the forefront of providing and delivering quality patient-centered, responsive, and technology-driven care across various locations in Nigeria to both citizens and foreign nationals.

Lily Hospitals offers a wide range of integrated health services which includes IVF, ophthalmology, radio-diagnostics, laboratory, pre-medical and hyperbaric services, neonatology, ICU care, minimal access procedures, and other general medical and surgical services. They are also an accredited center for specialist training in Radiology and Family Medicine, internships for medical doctors, radiographers, optometrists, and pharmacists.

Lily Hospitals will appoint 1 (one) Non-Executive Director to join its board.

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Agriculture, Agribusiness

Chicoa Fish Farms is a cage-based tilapia fish farm in Mozambique. The farm was established to fill the gap on the continent for affordable and sustainable protein: both through low-cost direct production and acting as an industry catalyst for small-scale farmers in Mozambique.

Having closed its Series A funding round, Chicoa Fish Farms is shifting into processing and integrating more technology into its operations. Chicoa Fish Farms is diversifying markets in terms of geography and its product mix, enabled through processing.

Their current board has limited exposure to operational considerations within an agricultural business as well as the integration of technology. Ideally, a new board member can bring some practical lessons to scaling a team, expanding into processing, and integrating technology.

Chicoa Fish Farms will appoint 1 (one) Independent Non-Executive Director to join its board of directors.

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Education

Instill Education started by creating custom education solutions on the continent designed to address teacher training challenges. Currently, they provide both pre and in-service teachers with in-person and digital content to support teachers within the African classroom. It closed its seed extension funding round and also received accreditation for its teaching qualification in South Africa. Outside of this, Instill Education provides teachers in-service with ongoing education within Ghana and Kenya.

The ambition is to scale both services within and outside of these countries, as well as add other offerings to their students and transform the trajectory of the continent by offering teachers affordable opportunities for upskilling and professional development.

Instill Education will appoint 1 (one) Independent Non-Executive Director to join its board of directors as a representative for a new investor.