EIR PROGRAM
Their mission is To
help strengthen our accelerator program; we are looking for experienced
entrepreneurs who will join our
part-time; Entrepreneurs-In-Residence
program. EiR's will be available to work closely with the startups on a part
time basis to ensure the startups quickly attain product market fit and scale
fast. An Ideal person for this role is a tech entrepreneur; talented in
navigating ambiguity and uncertainty to drive result; have a general knowledge
of startup businesses with deep expertise in an area of focus. It is also
important that this individual is matured enough to coach and mentor startup
founders and cofounders appropriately. We are looking for EiR’s with experience
in Engineering, Marketing, Growth Hacking, and Product Design.
VENTURES
PLATFORM
An
early stage platform that receives applications from across Africa; and works
with selected startups through a 16 weeks’ program, which offers advisory,
business development, mentorship, back office support and seed investment to
ensure startups find product market fit, scale successfully and raise the
investment they need.
1.
COMMUNICATION INTERN
This
role will be focused on managing contents on the website and social media
platforms, this includes: producing text and visual contents, scheduling and
publishing them on the company’s communications platform and engaging external
media personnel when necessary. To succeed at this role, it is important that
the candidate is a creative and is good at photography, graphics design and
social media management.
2.
ACCELERATION PROGRAM MANAGER
Ventures
Platform seeks to add to its team an Accelerator Program Manager, who will be
the prime interface for the startups, mentors, investors, partners and other
service providers. This individual will be responsible for the design,
planning, strategy and operations of the accelerator program. The ideal
candidate is someone who has experience working with and mentoring startups.
And the person must understand the principles of building fast growing startup
companies and must have vast networks to leverage on within the tech ecosystem
both locally and internationally.
3. PROGRAM
ADMIN
This
role is an integral part of Ventures Platform Accelerator team; taking
responsibility for aspects of administrative support for the program by
ensuring that the program design, delivery and documentation is efficient,
effective and adaptive to changing circumstances. An ideal candidate for this
role must be highly operational with excellent documentation and administrative
skills. It is also important to be a people person who can efficiently manage
relationships.
PRESIDENT
The
President will work with the CEO to lead strategy design, set KPIs and metrics
and mentor the leaders of the various parts of the organization (i.e. the
Accelerator, Co-working business and the Foundation). This role will also
include strategic management of resources and all major stakeholders across the
organization’s value chain. A good fit for this role is someone who has a work
experience as a C-Level executive with an exemplary organization and has
evidence of being a true leader and change agent in a corporate environment.
See
below to apply.
If
any of these roles sounds like you, please do not hesitate to send your CV and
cover letter to us via email: joinus@venturesplatform.com
on or before the 7th of April, 2017. Should you meet our job requirements, we
will get back to you to schedule a job interview. If you have not been
contacted within two (2) weeks of the closing date, please consider your
application unsuccessful.
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