Entrepreneur Head East Africa at Wadhwani Foundation

Key functional responsibilities:

• Help young professionals and college graduates start and sustain new businesses with the potential for high growth
• Work with the university channel partners and other ecosystem stakeholders aligned to the goals to establish WF model for creating new entrepreneurs
  • Establish ‘Startup Labs’ run by student leaders to support student entrepreneurs through a structured pathway of learning, mentoring, coaching and access to funding channels
  • Establish ‘Venture Fast Track’ program at University or other incubators, accelerators and designed to support a young aspiring or new entrepreneur to advance their startup and lead it to sustainability and growth.
• Inspire, signup and engage high quality mentors and coaches excited to contribute to building the next generation of startups in the region
• Help to localize the Wadhwani Support platform for startups with content, local mentors, coaches and relevant connects from the region
• Market the programs successfully to sign up partners and to attract and engage the highest quality professionals and students aspiring to be entrepreneurs, student entrepreneurs and startups.

Skills & Experience:

• 15+ years of experience with at least 5 years launching and managing outcome driven programs from end to end while managing teams
• Experience working across at least 3-4 countries in the region including Kenya
• Experience in the startup ecosystem including an understanding of what startups need to succeed
• Experience with incubators, accelerators and higher education entrepreneurship ecosystem
• Very comfortable working with technology platforms as a key enabler in delivering services to the stakeholders
• Very crisp and strong communication, written, spoken, and presentation oriented
• Ability to hold their own with conviction when working with senior leadership including heads of incubators, senior entrepreneurs and mentors.
• Good people management skills and strong project management skills.