Incubation Manager job at iHub
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Vacancy title: Incubation Manager

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Telecommunications , Category: Management ]

Jobs at: iHub


Deadline of this Job:
13 July 2022  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, June 29, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:
We are looking to recruit a detail-oriented, results-driven, and innovative Incubation Manager to lead incubation and acceleration activities at PAUSTI Incubation centre of excellence. The role holder will be responsible for managing all incubation programs, hackathons, and innovation design challenges and evaluating new investment opportunities for the idea proponents and startups in the innovation center.

Responsibilities
Incubation Strategy development and execution
• Develop and execute strategy for attracting and selecting deserving and qualified PAUSTI student-led innovative startups.
• Design and manage incubation programs.
• Provide startup support advisory to entrepreneurs through continued strategic guidance in areas such as business modeling, market analysis, financing, fundraising, overall strategy, operations etc.
• Develop, execute and own an operational and engagement strategy for the entire community including startups, investors, corporates, mentors, advisors, and domain experts.
• Develop a community development strategy to include and guide the implementation of all community development activities such as meetups, design challenges, hackathons etc.
• Create a robust curriculum for the entrepreneurship education programs for the students.
Stakeholder Engagement
• Manage the day-to-day interaction with the incubating startups
• Provide support to entrepreneurs across ideation, acceleration, investment and scale-up stages.
• Ensure tight management of milestones and progress of entrepreneurs and start-up companies.
• Be the switchboard for entrepreneurs to access relevant resources and connections.

Qualifications
• Educational Qualifications: Graduate (background in IT/Computer Science/Finance/Commerce is preferred)
• Minimum of 3+ experience working in startups or with an incubator/accelerator is a bonus.
• Overall understanding of the digital technology and product landscape
• Demonstrated ability to proactively cultivate, build and maintain strong working relationships with start-ups, entrepreneurs and other necessary stakeholders.
• Fluent in written and spoken English, with the ability to speak in front of an audience as and when deemed necessary
• Experience of running multi-functional teams.
• Excellent skills in the entire Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word, Powerpoint, Excel etc.)
• Execution skill set – including a focus on data-driven decision making, comfort with ambiguity, and ability to drive rapid “learn & implement” iterations.
• Empathy - using skills that allow the Engagement Specialist to determine what is most important to their target audience, and then working to deliver on an organizational promise.


Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 36

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

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Job Info
Job Category: Management jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 13 July 2022
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 29-06-2022
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 29-06-2022
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 29-06-2066
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