The Entrepreneur Incubator identifies as the leading global community of, by, and for “high-impact entrepreneurs” — those who dream bigger, scale faster, and pay it forward. Driven by their belief that high-impact entrepreneurs transform economies, they are on a mission to build thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems in emerging and underserved markets around the world. To sustain long-term operations in a mission-aligned way, they launched The Entrepreneur Incubator Catalyst, a rules-based, co-investment fund, set up to invest in the entrepreneurs that the non-profit strives to serve. Today. The Entrepreneur Incubator Catalyst is among the world’s top early-stage funders of startups-turned $1B+ companies (“Unicorns”) outside of the U.S. and China.
Industry: Communications, PR, & Media; Education & Teaching; Marketing & Advertising
Sector: Nonprofit Organization
Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
Possible Intern Roles:
RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS INTERN
The intern will help draw a strategic plan to achieve sustainability through the core area of the organization, the search for new entrepreneurs. The Entrepreneur Incubator uses Salesforce as its CRM and is eager to improve its management of the application and its database. The intern will learn how to use Salesforce and other tools in a project that aligns with the intern´s individual interests. In addition, the intern will help the rest of the team with the development of local programs. Local programs focus on entrepreneurs in earlier stages, more traditional business models, or SMEs. Some tasks that the intern may tackle include helping with events, organizing workshops, or giving support to entrepreneurs.
Suggested Spanish level: Fluent
Candidate requirements: This ideal candidate should have prior experience with Microsoft Suite.
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