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Company profile: Acumen Fund is a social venture fund serving the four billion people living on less than $4 a day. Acumen Fund’s aim is to create a blueprint for building financially sustainable and scalable organizations that deliver affordable, critical goods and services that elevate the lives of the poor. Acumen Fund adheres to a disciplined process in selecting and managing its philanthropic investments as well as in measuring the end results. Started in 2001, Acumen Fund has more than thirty full-time employees (including five in its India office) and focuses its investments in the areas of health, housing, water and energy.
AyurVAID Hospitals’ is a new generation hospital chain concept intended to make quality Ayurveda medical care accessible across India and the globe. AyurVAID has six hospitals currently operational- at Kochi and at Aluva in Kerala; at Domlur and at Ramamurthy Nagar in Bangalore; at Hubli in North Karnataka; and at Mahim-East in central Mumbai.
Internship-Corporate Strategy:
Desired candidate profile:
- 2-3 years of work experience in a business enviornment (consulting, i-banking, or similar experience a plus)
- Capability in financial and business model analysis
- Very strong organizational skills and the ability to work and deliver projects and achieve targets independently proactively and under pressure
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Passion for impacting global poverty with an understanding of challenges often encountered
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves and pitch in on a variety of tasks in a startup environment
Job profile:
- Collation of internal and external data to buttress our insurance gameplan
- Mapping/Qualifying/Shortlisting partners for medical tourism globally
- Mapping/Qualifying/Shortlisting partners for local medical tourism
- Website optimization – including mapping of/reaching out to relevant internet sites (particularly travel sites)
- Mapping of wellness market globally
- Development of a content engine for medical/wellness data for existing/potential patients
- Market sizing of US & European markets, and summary of regulatory obstacles/progress
Duration: 6 months
Location: Bangalore
