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Job Title:    UPSkill – Business
Lead

Organisation: Innovation
Village

Duty Station: 
Kampala, Uganda

About US:

The Innovation
Village is a destination entrepreneurs call home. We believe that every idea
that could transform society should be given an opportunity to see what that
idea could become. Have you ever considered a career working with startups?
Startup culture is high energy, your ticket to being a problem solver, attracts
the best minds around and lets you fast-track your career with high-growth
teams. Startup culture gives you the flexibility to explore emerging
technologies and test your limits along the way.

We enable
organisations to work with entrepreneurs, capture new value from
digital—creating products, experiences, and businesses. We bring together a
community where people can design, prototype, test, scale and launch
imaginative and solutions to big challenges – together.

About UPSkill:

UPSkill is focused
on building today’s most in-demand skills. All our facilitators are industry
thought leaders with experience in area of specialization. By using
thoughtleaders we transform everyday experienced people to spur innovation
through increased digital fluency and activate more effective approaches to
collaboration. With focus on building new content in technology, business, and
design, UPSkill offers classes, Masterclasses, workshops, long-form courses,
and events aimed at skilling for entrepreneurs and industry leaders by using
entrepreneurs and industry leaders.

Job Summary:  The UPSkill – Business Lead should be a
well-rounded individual, who leads by example, you will lead our focus to build
today’s most in-demand skills. Your activities will cultivate top tech talent
and spur innovation through strategic learning opportunities. This position is
heavily involved in public-facing functions and will involve first interaction
with our crowd of entrepreneurs, learners, instructors, and other stakeholders.
We are looking for someone with a strong customer service background and a
readiness to handle lots of moving pieces.

Key Duties and Responsibilities: 

• The incumbent will coordinate and provide support on overall
  strategy/action plan, including formulation, design, planning and
  implementation in line with our skilling mandate.
• Develop symbiotic relationship between industry actors and
  recruiting them to become facilitators
• Support startups, scaleups and SMEs within our portfolio by building
  relevant content to speak to their capacity gaps.
• Pursue, Cultivate and manage partner relationships with focus in
  systematically expanding our network of collaborators across various
  needs.
• Deliver a financially sustainable business by proactively building and
  maintaining research, business and industry activity
• Create and host valuable classes, Masterclasses, workshops,
  long-form courses, and events related content to drive growth in relevant
  stakeholders.
• Lead and manage the development of annual and seasonal plans that
  support the successful achievement of program and business goals by
  streamlining processes, increasing efficiency, revenue, and downstream
  retention.
• Create and manage a meaningful customer segmentation and contact
  strategy, executing timely and accurate deliveries of marketing strategies
  to achieve business goals.
• Analyze the performance of various content and ensure a regular flow
  of additional content developed based on those insights.
• Develop and test new ways of adding value to learners as part of the
  path to grow explore alternative approaches to building entrepreneurs.
• Create relevant content for the internal community derived from
  their priorities and development needs
• Anticipate and conduct content driven events and activities for the
  community driven by their needs.
• Continuously improve our content strategy to identify the best
  methods for reaching our target audience systematically over
  time—including channels, mediums and formats

Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 

• Show passion for innovation and social impact with exceptional
  written and spoken articulacy. You thrive under pressure and unfazed by
  fast-paced environments. You are Entrepreneurial, and have a get things
  done attitude. No need to write code but we’ll expect you to be tech-savvy
  and enjoy learning new tech. You are active, skillful user of social
  media.
• You are bold, appreciate direct and open conversation and
  collaborate freely with your supervisor
• You value freedom, actively drive your work and department and enjoy
  taking initiative to suggest and won improvement and change projects
• You easily fit into a youthful and informal work culture
• You are collaborative and know to listen to other’s point of view
  finding common ground.

How to Apply:

All candidates who
wish to join us in the aforementioned capacity should apply online at the link
below.

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