Managing Director, Ground Up Investing
Corus International
Sector
Social Impact
Salary & Benefits
$200,000-230,000 USD
Expiry Date
11/10/2025
Formal Interview Date
Week of November 24, 2025
Corus International leads an ensemble of social impact organizations working together in the world’s most fragile settings to deliver the holistic, lasting solutions needed to overcome the interconnected challenges of poverty, health care access, and climate change. Corus is a new model in the international space, creating a consortium of specialized non-profit and for-profit entities for greater impact. Additional growth is expected.
Ground Up Investing (GUI), a subsidiary of Corus International, is an impact investing company launched in 2017 that has primarily focused on transforming agrifood systems at the first mile of agricultural supply chains in frontier markets. GUI aims to generate economic impact in the form of higher income, better jobs, and more equitable trading relationships for smallholder farming -based communities, while building resilient landscapes through practices such as regenerative agriculture. GUI pursues these goals through investments in start-ups and small and medium-sized agricultural enterprises, which GUI sees as critical engines to innovation and disruption of the status quo that has historically offered little value capture at origin. GUI provides equity and debt through diverse financial instruments as an impact-first, patient capital partner.
Unique to impact investing, GUI is an owner / operator, having launched Mountain Harvest, a specialty coffee processing company and exporter based in Uganda. Having scaled the company for over 8 years, GUI has valuable insights into operating, growing, and financing agriSMEs in emerging markets.
The Managing Director of Ground Up Investing (GUI) oversees the strategic direction of the business, working with the GUI team to ensure growth and achievement of the company’s goals while engaging closely with Corus leadership to align objectives and realize business synergies. The core duties include development and execution of the strategic plan, collaborating with Corus’s leadership team and GUI’s Investment Advisory Committee, identification of new funding partner opportunities, and development and management of internal and external relationships.
To be successful, the Managing Director should have a compelling commercial background and be an innovative and creative strategist with strong leadership, influence, and managerial skills, a good communicator, and a confident and goal-oriented executive.
To apply, please submit a CV and covering letter to https://apptrkr.com/6552421, detailing how you fulfill the role description and personal specification. The deadline for applications is October 10 at 9:00 am ET.
The preferred location for this role is Washington, DC, but other locations may be considered. The salary range is c.$200-230,000 USD; dependent upon experience.
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