Director, Entrepreneur Academy at Founders Factory Africa (FFA) Freelance Full Time Internship Part Time Temporary

Job Title: Director, Entrepreneur Academy
Location: NigeriaEmployment Type: Full time | HybridCategory: Founders Factory Africa – Venture Design Academy
Job Description

We are looking for a strong, agile, digitally-savvy, data-led entrepreneur with a passion for youth education in Africa to lead the creation of this venture.
The incumbent will play a critical role in building our Entrepreneur Academy. The successful candidate will lead the design and execution of strategic experiments across multiple markets in order to: create effective curricula that is delivered via a scaleable, tech-enabled model, leading to the creation of a  significant number of youth-employment opportunities in the next 5 years.
The Entrepreneur Academy Director will be supported by a dedicated team as well as having access to the broader FFA team.  
This is a full-time position and will be required to work in London, Johannesburg, Kenya, or Nigeria. We operate a hybrid model where you will be required to be in the office at least three days a week 

Responsibilities

Developing a Entrepreneur Academy strategy that leverages FFA’s unique experience and expertise in building tech start-ups and is informed by the complex challenges driving youth unemployment across the markets we work in
Leading the design and execution of iterative experiments/pilots aimed at creating, validating, and refining all aspects of FFA’s Entrepreneur Academy program
Overseeing qualitative research using methods such as qualitative interviews, experience mapping, service blueprints, and user journeys
Build up a support team and manage a dispersed team across our key markets
Representing FFA in the broader Entrepreneur Academy ecosystem to ensure that our program reflects emerging best practices and to identify opportunities for collaboration, partnerships and for amplification of our work
Working with our Community & Communications team to develop effective branding and marketing materials and strategies for recruiting high-potential learners
Working with our Embedded Impact and Learning team to design and implement a monitoring and evaluation framework that tracks the impact of the program, distils insights, and creates feedback loops that drive continuous improvement in programming.

RequirementsCandidates should meet the following minimum requirements:

Undergraduate or Honours Graduate Degree in a related discipline.
At least 10 years of relevant experience building companies or programs in Africa
Adept in developing and implementing  cross-functional projects
Strong collaboration and project management skills are a must.

The ideal candidate is or possesses:

Leadership experience and ability that translates into execution. Likely demonstrated by previous experience leading the successful creation of a company or program that scaled
Demonstrated ability to clearly distil a problem and subsequently identify solutions through iteration(e.g., by following the data and pivoting the approach) rather than charging forward with an initial hypothesis
Digitally savvy, with a keen sense of the importance of tech in creating scalable delivery channels as well as the risks posed by poorly designed, tech-for-tech’s sake solutions
Performance-focused in their approach to work. Comfortable with setting ambitious targets and managing to these, including the desire to be incentivized based on performance
A  passion for education in Africa, The candidate may not be an expert but views Entrepreneur Academy as a critical problem to solve and has empathy for the target market
Experience working across markets in Africa
Preference for candidates with a deep network in E4E or Venture Design that they would be able to tap into
Preference for candidates that have: led a startup, worked in the impact space, or have worked in an Edutech context

Application Closing DateNot Specified.