GrowthAfrica is one of the continent’s leading growth partners for entrepreneurs. We are looking for new talent to join our quest to grow the continent’s promising impact enterprises into market and investor-ready businesses, creating much-needed quality job opportunities, economic growth, and social transformation. We drive market-readiness, growth-readiness and investment-readiness through cohort-based programmes, projects, and tailored support services to entrepreneurs across Africa. We also build the support ecosystems that enable entrepreneurs to thrive, through capacity building of entrepreneur support organisations and ecosystem actors. Through access to capital, markets, technology, and know-how, we have, since 2002, supported over 5,000 businesses to flourish. We focus on innovative and scalable post-revenue startups and growth SMEs across subSaharan Africa. Headquartered in Nairobi, we run activities across Africa. You will join an international, passionate, and ambitious team across six countries. About the role GrowthAfrica is seeking a dynamic, experienced and proven senior programme leader to drive the delivery of a flagship multi-country entrepreneurship programme. As Head of Programme, you will hold overall accountability for the delivery, quality and impact of a complex, multi-country initiative supporting young women entrepreneurs across Kenya, Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda. Uganda tenders listings The position is strategically vital and operationally demanding. You will be the unambiguous operational leader of a high-visibility programme that GrowthAfrica intends to set as the benchmark for how we, and the wider African entrepreneurship support sector, deliver excellence at scale. Discover more Recruitment & Staffing Career coaching Recruitment services â–ª It is about catalysing innovation at scale across four countries, leading a programme that supports over 1,600 aspiring entrepreneurs, 200 innovation teams and 80 early-stage businesses to build the next wave of African market infrastructure that benefits young women in some of the most overlooked corners of the continent. â–ª It is about turning ambitious design into operational reality, translating a bold vision into well-orchestrated delivery across Kenya, Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda, building the systems, the team and the partnerships that make consistent excellence possible cycle after cycle, country after country. â–ª It is about backing entrepreneurs in places that are typically overlooked, ensuring the programme’s primary focus on young women in rural and peri-urban settings translates from intention into authentic, life-changing engagement, with the discipline to refuse compromise on the target persona even when it would be easier to do so. Discover more Job Listings Job seeker tools Job posting service â–ª It is about leading a high-calibre team across borders, building, coaching and managing a 24-strong programme team plus a wider network of partners, mentors, technical experts and capital providers, fostering autonomy at country level while maintaining unity of purpose and quality across the whole. â–ª It is about building a case study GrowthAfrica grows from, making this programme a deliberate demonstration of African-led, evidence-based entrepreneurship support, generating the learnings, methodologies and stories that will shape our practice for years to come. Key responsibilities â–ª Lead end-to-end delivery of the programme’s three core components, covering innovation and ideation, incubation, and acceleration, plus the events and ecosystem engagement stream, across Kenya, Ghana, Uganda and Rwanda. Head of Programme 3 of 5 â–ª Own quality and impact across all programme activities, ensuring 1,600+ aspiring entrepreneurs, 200 innovation teams and 80 early-stage businesses are supported to international best-practice standards and authentic local relevance. â–ª Provide strategic oversight of a significant grants facility, working with the Grants Coordinator to ensure rigorous due diligence, compliant disbursement and effective utilisation by entrepreneurs and businesses. Discover more HR services Professional networking HR consulting â–ª Build, lead and develop a 24-strong programme team across one headquarters and four country offices, fostering high performance, learning and increasing country-team autonomy as the programme matures. â–ª Serve as the principal point of
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