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Komaza works to unlock the potential of small-scale farmers to solve Africa's wood supply crisis. Collectively, small farmers possess limitless land and labor resources to plant billions of trees. Komaza provides farmers with support across the forestry value chain, from seedlings to sawmills. With a dramatically lower-cost and more-scalable forestry model, ...
About Operations Innovation
Komaza is building a new Operations Innovation department as an internal R&D Lab to develop the strategies, products and processes to achieve hugely ambitious long-term growth. All other Department leads are busy with day-to-week-to-month operations, making incremental improvements and fire-fighting inevitable challenges on the ground. Ops Innovation, in contrast, will be tasked with steering clear of the “urgent,” in order to envision and build the long-term “important.” Working closely with other departments and senior executives to define key priorities and strategies, Ops Innovation will design, develop and lead change-management for next-generation processes. While this will involve some moon-shot R&D, the main priority is developing transformative systems for Komaza’s core business. This will require sustained innovation and program development around a focused number of top strategic priorities to deliver true step changes in performance and scale. We will staff the department with proven operators, consultants and visionary thinkers to own specific programs over 1-3 years, managing small teams of fast, flexible thinkers from Kenya and around the world.
About this Role
As Vice President of Operations Innovation, you are fundamentally tasked with designing the future of forestry in Africa, and will be responsible for driving change both at a strategic level and deeply operational level. As the founder of this initiative, you will need to thrive on ambiguity, and possess the ability to see, prioritize and manage simultaneous multi-year initiatives. Most importantly, you must be a lifelong learner who is able to lead, coordinate and coach your team of bright consultants through the stages of designing, developing and delivering critical projects necessary for the long-term success and sustainability of the company. You are an open-minded, flexible, and generative thinker and operator that cares most about driving lasting impact by converting excellent ideas into testable prototypes and proven reality. You will report to Komaza’s Founder & CEO, and work very closely with other senior executives.
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Expectations
We need a VP of Ops Innovation who wants to make a meaningful commitment to building this department and delivering significant innovations for a minimum of 3-5+ years. While we will open a Nairobi office to support regional expansion in the near future, this role will be primarily based at our current headquarters in Kilifi, Kenya for the foreseeable future. The role offers competitive salary and benefits, plus equity. Application Deadline: Closing date is 31st October 2016
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