Smateria is an ethical and sustainable fashion accessories brand with a deep-rooted interest in innovation, design and sustainability. • Set up, development and consolidation of fashion accessories brand, Smateria, in the UK.• Management: Business Planning; P&L responsibility; Manage and negotiate competitive contracts with service providers; Consult with specialists for legal, financial planning, and tax planning purposes.• Business Development: Develop and maintain retail and wholesale network; Conduct consultative sales presentations and meetings with potential B2C and B2B clients; Set sales goals and evaluate sales monthly to identify trends and maximize marketing; Build strategic alliances with related businesses in the UK.• Marketing: Create strategic and actionable marketing plans in collaboration with Smateria Cambodia; Produce and edit social media content and campaigns; Create, update, and refine Shopify e-commerce; Create marketing materials (flyers); Produce and promote special events (pop-ups, markets).• Finance and Accounting: Process billing; Conduct payment collection and monitor automatic deposits; Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports; Work with accountants to produce annual tax return.• IT and Logistics: Ensure proper operation of all equipment, including Point of Sale systems; Set-up and maintenance of inventory.• Sales and Customer Service: Manage sales at retail events including weekly pop-ups in key commercial hotspots in London, as well as temporary pop-ups with like-minded businesses in East and Central London; Handle customer communications in the UK through all channels.

The Rainforest Alliance is one of the biggest NGOs in the world with operations in more than 70 countries, dedicated to conserving biodiversity and promoting sustainable practices in the farming and forestry industries. • Responsible for developing and implementing strategies for the generation of funding resources from institutional donors based in Europe, including bilateral and multilateral government funders, private foundations and corporations.• Responsible for building relationships and networking with donor agencies, knowledge platforms, companies, and sector related initiatives, to stay abreast of funding opportunities, as well as maintaining regular engagement with headquarter and field staff to gather high-quality programmatic information. • Manage a portfolio of European donors in close coordination with the Institutional Relations team in the United States. • Represent the organization in meetings as well as provide support to Board members, senior management, and international program staff in their interactions with donors. • Manage the editing and quality control process of proposals, concept papers, and reports in portfolio, in collaboration with the organization’s programmatic and field staff. • Provide support and guidance to colleagues on areas of work including: research on prospective funding opportunities and donor strategy, donor database management, meeting preparation and follow-up, and donor cultivation. • Design and execute appropriate cultivation and fundraising events.• Build awareness by representing the organization at relevant conferences and events. • Maintain accurate donor information through database (Salesforce).

Opes Impact Fund (www.opesfund.eu) is the first Italian impact investing fund focusing on social ventures creating high impact in developing countries. • Deal sourcing: interacting with various incubation/acceleration programmes and social innovation competitions. • Conducting due diligence on early-stage companies operating in India and East Africa in different sectors (energy, WASH, education, waste, health, agriculture): market research; business, financial and impact analysis through both desk review and field visits.• Performing financial modelling and sensitivity analysis.• Preparing and presenting investment recommendations and progress reports to internal and external bodies. • Holding Board Observer position in 2 portfolio companies in India (operating in Rural Energy access sector and Affordable Pre-Primary Education).

Fondazione ACRA is one of the biggest Italian NGOs, with 50 years of experience in Europe, Africa and Latin America. • Responsible for the development, implementation, coordination and promotion of ACRA’s social enterprise, development finance and revenue-generating programs. • Securing new funding streams (impact investors, grant funding) for the start-up phase of new and existing social ventures.• Developing and applying enterprise development best practices and approaches into new programming and contributing to the organization’s own sustainability.• Developing and preparing business plans, briefings, and public relations material.• Representing ACRA at designated meetings and at conferences (Sankalp Forum 2012, India; “Convergences 2015” 2014, France).• Contributing to the start-up of Opes Impact Fund (www.opesfund.eu): drafting business plan, defining investment strategy, identifying investment criteria, designing and implementing marketing and fundraising strategy.

• Social Business planning: responsible for planning and elaborating the Business Plan of a social enterprise devoted to extract essential oils involving local communities. Support for the scientific research on the innovative technique used for the extraction. • Identifying the needs/requirements for the start-up and development of a new-born social enterprise in Cameroon.• Providing technical support and building the capacity of the organization’s partners in the development of market studies, budgeting, costs and revenue analysis, business planning and fundraising.• Identify methods to implement, sustain and grow income generation schemes.• Networking and forging links with stakeholders and organizations (including local government, donors, companies in Italy and Central Africa, universities and others) to ensure continued support for existing and new initiatives. • Monitoring and evaluating the results and impact of the social venture and submitting progress and impact reports. • Administrative and technical support to all western and central African cooperation projects: procedures, final-intermediate financial reports, accounting, preparing funding proposals (EuropeAid projects, Minister for foreign affairs' projects, local donors' projects, CSR projects with companies, etc.).

Regional public agency responsible for environmental protection and management of natural resources.• Collaboration in the implementation of a project, promoted by the Colombian Ministry of Environment, to set up filtration systems for residual waters from coffee plantations.• Technical support in the use and maintenance of the system, responsible for awareness raising for farmers and executing technical workshops on water saving schemes and exploitation of other sub-products derivate from coffee production.

Prestigious international publishing house of specialized notebooks for Embassies around the world, including advertising spaces for international companies with bilateral commercial interests. • Sales agent responsible for content design and securing international companies’ interest on advertising spaces in the notebooks with a focus on Italian embassies in France and the United States, and Spanish embassies in the United States and France.

Fundraising agency implementing tailored made fundraising strategies for relevant international organizations. • Raising citizen awareness about UNICEF and its fields of action as well as the situation of children across the globe through face to face canvassing.