Investment Analyst at Village Capital

Role Overview

• In this role, you’ll co-facilitate workshops, offer 1:1 support to women-led, tech-enabled startups, and support implementing partners as they deliver investment readiness training. You’ll also help surface learnings around the types of capital most needed by women founders and contribute to the ongoing evolution of VilCap’s curriculum and tools. Your three specific responsibilities are: 

Direct Entrepreneur Support 

• You will facilitate group sessions on financial health, investment readiness, and capital strategy for WiT program participants.
• You will provide tailored 1:1 support to women entrepreneurs across 10 markets on revenue models, unit economics, pricing strategy, and funding approaches.
• You will help participants articulate their business growth plans and capital needs using VilCap tools like Capital Explorer and Abaca.

Pipeline and Insights 

• You will participate in final selection of women in tech participants to ensure alignment with program target profile. 
• You’ll personally develop relationships with the most promising entrepreneurs as a relationship lead on behalf of Village Capital.
• You will analyze and report on the financial needs and capital-readiness of WiT participants to inform broader ecosystem learnings.
• You will contribute to research questions around catalytic capital use, gender lens investing, and effective capacity-building strategies.
• You will be working  with VilCap Impact Investments team toidentify potential deal flow for future financing facilities. 

Program Support

• You will network with and recruit industry experts, investors, and entrepreneurs to join as program mentors and advisors
• You will support the program logistics, facilitation and execution including of entrepreneur annual Alumni events.
• You’ll support the Program Manager with program management and deliverables.
• You will collaborate with local Implementing Partners to adapt curriculum and programming to each market's context.
• You will support Implementing Partners by acting as a co-facilitator during entrepreneur-facing training, particularly on financial topics.
• You will help collect, analyze, and synthesize feedback and insights to inform improvements across the multi-year partnership
• You will advise Village Capital’s programming strategy and recruitment with an eye towards market opportunities, corporate innovation trends and investment trends.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Economics, Business, or other relevant field.
• Deep understanding of the start-up and investment landscape in SSA and MENA
• 3-5 years of professional experience.
• Experience with Financial Analysis and Modeling, ideally with early-stage companies.
• Experience supporting due diligence, pipeline tracking, or evaluating investment opportunities
• Strong interest in impact-driven startups
• Comfortable with digital tools for managing pipelines, data analysis and CRM platforms
• Exceptional written and verbal communications.
• Comfort with cold external outreach with entrepreneurs and other external stakeholders.
• Fluency in Excel, PowerPoint, and other tools to both analyze and promote companies.