Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) invites applications for a Lead, MEDA @ 75 to join our dedicated and talented team in our mission to create business solutions to poverty

MEDA’s work is built on a foundation of Mennonite business roots and faith-based values, within the global context of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. We believe business solutions are effective interventions to address poverty. Through a market-systems approach and strategic partnerships, MEDA enables access to finance and provides business and technical expertise to build transformative agri-food market systems that create decent jobs, allowing traditionally excluded groups to become active participants in a sustainable economy. MEDA welcomes all who share our values and want to join us in our mission. To find out more about MEDA, please visit our website at www.meda.org.

POSITION SUMMARY:

Build the next chapter of a 75-year-old idea.

In 1953, a small group of businesspeople acted on a conviction: business can be a calling and an instrument for human flourishing. In 2028, MEDA turns 75. MEDA is not looking for someone simply to organize an anniversary. We are looking for someone to help us use it.

MEDA @ 75 is a two-year initiative to widen the circle around MEDA’s mission by reconnecting generations of people who built MEDA while bringing entrepreneurs, investors, business leaders, families, partners and new champions into what comes next. The initiative will accelerate MEDA’s $75 million Reaching New Horizons Campaign, strengthen MEDA’s global relevance and influence, build the next generation of MEDA, and contribute to the larger ambition of one million decent jobs by 2030.

Reporting to the President & CEO, the Lead,



MEDA @ 75 will turn an ambitious idea into an extraordinary two-year journey. The role will use this once-in-75-years milestone to strengthen MEDA’s story, constituency, resources, influence and next generation of champions.

Job Status:

Full-time, fixed-term through May 2029

Location(s):

U.S, Canada preferred; global candidates considered

Reports to:

President & CEO

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

Strategic Storytelling and Positioning

- Articulate the story only MEDA can tell after 75 years and explain why that story matters now.
- Draw from MEDA’s Mennonite and Anabaptist heritage, its founding conviction of Business as a Calling, and 75 years of working alongside entrepreneurs to create a narrative that is authentic to MEDA’s roots and relevant to the future.
- Express both who MEDA has been and who MEDA is becoming: an ecosystem and systems builder operating at the intersection of development, investment, enterprise and faith.
- Reintroduce Business as a Calling as a contemporary conversation about enterprise, capital, responsibility and human flourishing in a world being reshaped by AI, climate change, changing trade and capital flows, and the need for decent jobs at scale.

Constituency, Community and Next-Generation Engagement

- Reconnect former leaders, supporters,



families and partners who shaped MEDA and invite them to help shape what comes next.
- Identify and engage people who do not yet know MEDA but should, including entrepreneurs, investors, philanthropists, corporate leaders, partners and younger generations.
- Create meaningful pathways for the next generation of entrepreneurs, investors, business leaders and MEDA families to become participants, members, champions and leaders of the mission.
- Build a movement that helps people progress from awareness to engagement, participation, championing, investment and long-term relationship.

Partnerships and Resource Mobilization

- Build partnerships and take MEDA into networks where conversations about business, investment, development, technology, faith and human flourishing are already happening.
- Turn relationships into action through philanthropy, catalytic investment, corporate partnerships, mentorship, introductions, expertise, influence, legacy commitments and recent champions for MEDA’s mission.
- Expand MEDA’s reach beyond its traditional constituency and strengthen connections with business, investment, philanthropic and faith communities in North America and internationally.

Road to 75 and Milestone Leadership

- Work across MEDA to ensure Tampa 2026, Niagara 2027 and MEDA @ 75 in 2028 become powerful chapters of a larger journey.
- Advance the Road to 75 between major milestones through family and former-leader engagement, major and legacy conversations, Business as a Calling thought leadership, next-generation entrepreneurship, external platforms, global experiences and new partnerships.
- Help shape the 2028 Convention’s strategic ambition, audience, story and re

📌 Lead, MEDA @ 75 (South-West Oxford)
🏢 Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA)
📍 South-West Oxford