OXFAM INTERMON & ESADE ALUMNI SOCIAL
Description:
We are looking for a volunteer who wants to crunch numbers in the summer to help the Innovaplast project (Bolivia’s capital, La Paz, in the El Alto zone), which is part of our Together project to support the generation of a productive economy in developing countries.
Specifically, we need a senior consultant to check the Excel where the accounting is recorded.
The goal is to determine whether the company generates enough net cash flow to take on debt given its growth forecasts and to determine what financial products should be structured.
The company Innovaplast was referred to us by Oxfam Intermón to help its social entrepreneurship project. Here is more information on this social entrepreneurship company and the fact that it won the award for the best entrepreneurship in Bolivia:
InnovaPLAST: Emprende cuidando el medioambiente - Bolivia Emprende
Innovaplast-Industria Ecológica de Plástico | La Paz
It was inspired by the Valencia-based company Relevocontigo, which you can see here.
We have a volunteer who is an Esade alumnus, an enrolled engineer who has been providing support since May. He has already been on the ground and is familiar with the project firsthand. His mission is to work actively with the managerial team and study how to help them in any way that can strengthen them and sustain their growth in an engaged yet remote way. The secondary goal is to study how to get more plastics and what the work model would mean to the collectors, who are extremely vulnerable women living on the street (improving their lives, giving them additional income, and empowering them is one of the cornerstones of this entrepreneurship project). He has met them and drafted a report on where we can continue working. Now the next challenge is to work on the finances.
Requirements:
The volunteer with a financial background has to meet the following criteria: empathy, subtlety in dealing with others, interest in this new economy of recycling and the circular economy, understanding of the values of female leadership (the leader is a highly trained Bolivian woman, an engineer by profession, devoted to social entrepreneurship and working to benefit local communities), business vision, and financial knowledge.
To register or request more information, write to
Naila Q. Hawach,Alumni Social project manager: nailateresa.quintana@esade.edu
Núria Vergés, Alumni Social project manager: nuria.verges1@esade.edu
