Entrepreneurship Fellow at Maven Group

About The Entrepreneurship Fellow Role

As an ALX Entrepreneurship Fellow, you will be part of building our 'Moonshot Factory'. and building the entrepreneurship ecosystem at ALX to support Young Leaders with budding ideas or ventures to turn them into full-fledged businesses. They will keep the spirit of innovation and continuous iteration alive within the ALX space in order to spur the creation of innovative solutions to the continent's most pressing challenges.

We are looking for mission-driven, passionate entrepreneurs to run and manage the ALX Nairobi hub to sustain the strong start we have established in the program's pilot run.

What You'll Do As Entrepreneurship Fellow

• Bring the unique ALX spirit for innovation to life through developing and curating an ecosystem for entrepreneurs to thrive.
• Conceptualize and create transformational experiences for developing entrepreneurs, as well as bringing a community of change makers together in support of young venture creators.
• Design workshops to build entrepreneurial skills around design thinking, acquiring investments, scaling up businesses and others.
• Plan and run operations of entrepreneurship events such as networking sessions, pitch fests, skill-building workshops and other programming.
• Build partnerships with external stakeholders such as incubators and venture capital firms to offer unique learning experiences to our members.
• Monitor and evaluate impact, effectiveness and efficiency of the entrepreneurial programming.
• Support a team of incredibly passionate, talented and diverse people and champion our unique culture.
• Build systems and processes that contribute to making this type of entrepreneurial support scalable across all of our ALX sites.
• Other related work to build a strong foundation for ALX.

What You'll Need

• An enthusiasm for entrepreneurship training and development, prior experience at a startup or incubator is a plus.
• Experience in organizing high-end transformational experiences and curating meaningful exchanges.
• Plugged-in to the local entrepreneurship community.
• Stellar networking skills and the ability to make smart partnerships happen.
• Comfortable with uncertainty, changing priorities and a startup environment, but with knowledge and insight to build structure and systems where needed.
• Passionate about scalable and innovative leadership and entrepreneurship development.
• Skills: Problem solving, relationship building, experience design, events management, community building.
• Mindsets: Entrepreneurial, servitude, data-driven, customer first, visionary, community-driven.