Programme Director Health Heroes

Company Description

New Ventures Capital (NVC) invests in founders developing innovative, market-based solutions with strong potential to scale across Latin America, focusing on pressing social and environmental challenges. NVC combines smart capital with capacity-building support to create high-growth, high-impact ecosystems. The organization designs, operates, and oversees a range of impact-related assets that connect mission-oriented investors with impact-driven entrepreneurs.

By enabling disruptive business models and aligning them with values-driven capital, NVC aims to advance social and environmental wellbeing in the region. Team members join a mission-driven environment that blends investment rigor with measurable impact.

Role Description

The Programme Director Health Heroes is a full-time, hybrid role based in Bogota with flexibility for partial work from home. This role leads the implementation, and scaling of the Health Heroes program, focusing on supporting health-related ventures that deliver measurable social and economic impact in Latin America.

Day-to-day responsibilities include overseeing program strategy, managing a portfolio of entrepreneurs, coordinating capacity-building activities, and ensuring alignment with NVC’s impact and investment goals. The Programme Director will engage with founders and investors, develop partnerships with health sector stakeholders, and monitor program performance and outcomes.

This role also involves guiding research initiatives, producing strategic insights on health systems and markets, and collaborating with internal teams to refine NVC’s health impact thesis.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in startups with the ability to apply to health systems, financing mechanisms, and startups scalability and business models.
• Proficiency in Research, including designing and interpreting studies, gathering market and impact data, and translating findings into actionable program insights.
• Demonstrated Project Management skills, including planning, execution, stakeholder coordination, budgeting, and timeline oversight for multi-partner initiatives.
• Experience in Strategic Planning, including setting program objectives, defining impact metrics, and aligning strategies with organizational goals and investor expectations.
• Appreciated prior work with impact-driven ventures, health-focused programs, or social innovation initiatives in Latin America is highly beneficial.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across cultures and disciplines.
• Leadership experience managing teams and networks of entrepreneurs.
• Advanced degree in public health, health economics, public policy, business, or a related field is preferred; equivalent relevant experience will also be considered.
• Professional proficiency in English and Spanish, both written and spoken.