At Unreasonable, we believe entrepreneurial-led businesses building rapidly scalable solutions are the greatest untapped resource for solving the most significant social and environmental challenges of our time. Every day, our team strives to give the entrepreneurs we work with an unfair advantage to succeed. We do this by connecting them with our networks of mentors, investors, business leaders, and policymakers that can help them drive impact and scale their businesses faster. Today, over 200 CEO’s in the Unreasonable Fellowship have raised nearly $5B in financing, generated more than $4B in revenue, and are measurably impacting the lives of nearly 550 million individuals in nearly every country and territory worldwide.

We are now seeking short-term, full-time support,  to join our Investment Team and directly support our portfolio relationship management activities specifically across Asia Pacific. For this position, we’re looking for someone with clear and thorough English communication skills, strong organizational skills, and one with a heightened attention to detail. This is an exciting, multi-faceted role balancing a variety of responsibilities, asking one to operate in support of the team, but also operate with confidence and ease in a remote setting to ensure the team operates as a well-oiled machine. This role within this team is at the heart of Unreasonable, working within the team charged with directly caring for our entrepreneurs and helping to address their greatest needs. Access to capital is often one of those greatest needs of our scaling ventures and this team is designed to support our Fellows with providing access to capital both directly though our investment club, the Unreasonable Collective, and via our network of financial institutions and partners. This is a unique opportunity to join the team tasked with designing and delivering that value. This position will primarily work across Asian time-zones, with limited interaction across EMEA and Americas timezones.

This role would be ideal for someone who can take responsibility for multiple administrative tasks whilst also providing a useful introduction to the world of investment and social impact business across the APAC region. It will also provide unique insights into Unreasonable - one of the most progressive companies in the world looking at redefining capital support for businesses doing good in the world.  

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Support the Portfolio Manager, APAC and the broader portfolio team by: 

  • Cleaning up the Funder database for APAC and beyond.  This is a task that alone can take a few weeks.  Once tidy then this can be built on, on a weekly basis with new Funders and refined on an ongoing basis. 

  • Supporting in funder selection by fielding funder requests from entrepreneurs, reviewing criteria and proposing initial selection lists 

  • Helping to create and maintaining a new database (CRM) of existing active fundraising entrepreneurs, their needs, and stage in the process

  • On a daily basis checking Linkedin and regional media news streams for entrepreneur news announcements and uploading them to our proprietary platform (average 3-5 per day)

  • On a daily basis reviewing regional news-streams for news that will support and update the Funder database, support APAC venture selection, provide Unreasonable with heightened media coverage of our entrepreneurs, identify potential Unreasonable Collective members, and overall keeping abreast of the Investment and impact scene across APAC and reporting and recording interesting and relevant issues

  • Assisting with Investment areas around our upcoming Unreasonable Impact APAC 2021 cohort, gaining exposure to and helping to co-facilitate some of our programming events. Specifically supporting our Investor Demo Day in June. 

  • Providing general assistance across Portfolio workstreams where needed 

We’re looking for the following competencies and skills...

• STRONG COMMUNICATION - 

  • Primarily oral and written communications skills in English

  • Confident and mature communicator who is comfortable interacting with senior individuals and synthesizing information from calls

• TECHNICAL CONFIDENCE - 

  • Comfort and familiarity working with data, data management tools, CRM tools etc. 

• EXCELLENT SERVICE -

  • Commitment to excellent customer service

• PRIDE IN DELIVERY & OWNERSHIP - 

  • Detail-oriented work ethic

  • Able to take initiative and step in as a self-starter

  • Resourceful and can find solutions in scrappy environments

Required Education and Experience:

• Experience is gained in many different ways across a multitude of avenues. Here at Unreasonable, we are committed to building a diverse team and fostering an inclusive environment. As guidance, we expect this hire to come with 0-2 years of experience in an administration, coordination, research or data management function. This is a temporary, entry-level role within our organization.