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About VisionSpring
VisionSpring, an international social enterprise, was founded in 2001 with a mission to broaden access to affordable eyewear everywhere. We establish market access to eyeglasses and vision correction for people living in poverty so that they may enhance their livelihoods, learning, and quality of li... read morefe. To date, VisionSpring has sold nearly three million pairs of glasses to low income consumers living in emerging and frontier markets, and is working to reach 10 million pairs by the symbolic year 2020.
As a social enterprise, social change motivates us first. Our focus on sales and revenue targets serves and advances our mission objective - to correct refractive error with eyeglasses so that low income consumers may experience improved functioning, productivity and income earning potential on a sustained basis.
We are working to transform the systemic dysfunction of the optical market which has failed to deliver a 700 year old technology to 644 million consumers who earn less than $4 a day.
We serve low income consumers not as beneficiaries but as customers. Our customers expect a high quality, affordable product and are willing to spend limited discretionary income for the immediate and tangible benefits of vision correction.
By selling glasses we awaken new demand and seed a viable market. By selling new eyeglasses we are able to serve four times as many people per dollar input than the next alternative of donating recycled ones . To efficiently scale, we must deliver each new unit with less cost.
Organizationally, we are a hybrid. We are a registered 501(c)3 non-profit and a Private Limited Company (PLC). We earn revenue and supplement it with contributed income. We hire change makers and pay bonuses and commissions. We run our business on both sales metrics and social impact measures. We exploit a range of organizational forms and practices to get the job done.
The global senior manager designs the customer journey, from building awareness of the need for vision correction to eyeglasses purchase, in communities where 75% of VisionSpring customers are buyi
She/he will play a key role in the generation of evidence evaluating programmatic and organizational impact in the countries where VisionSpring operates: currently Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Kenya,
This role is a contract-based, full-time position for the initial period of one year. As with other contractors with whom we have worked for many years, we expect the successful candidates to be wi
She/he will play a key role in the generation of evidence evaluating programmatic and organizational impact in the countries where VisionSpring operates: currently Bangladesh, Ghana, India, Kenya,
About You
Mission-driven, entrepreneurial leader. You build a mission-driven unit to support the delivery of the organization’s long-term outcomes widening our outreach. You foster ideatio
The Global Lead is part of the Global Program Department, this department consists of 4 units, Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL), Quality Assurance and Client Experience, Program
About You
You are passionate about improving the accessibility of affordable eyeglasses to communities/sectors vulnerable to poverty. You know this will be incredibly fun and requires techn
About You
Mission-driven, entrepreneurial leader. You build a mission-driven unit to support the delivery of the organization’s long-term outcomes. You foster ideation, iteration, and lear
The Advisor plays a strategically important role, training health workers and community champions to conduct presbyopia screenings and appropriately dispense eyeglasses. S/he will collaborate with the
This role will be based out of Nairobi. It will be a full-time position with a 3-month trial period.
About You
You want to build a socially oriented business. You are accustomed to being a top per
