The Ugandan Jobline

• Identify and select the right
  entrepreneurs building high potential businesses, that meet our selection
  criteria, into our programs. Working closely with our Selection Associate,
  you will be charged with ensuring we attract and select the right number
  of businesses to fill our programs
• Design and conduct a needs assessment with
  selected businesses. This is to help our team understand clearly how the
  company expects to grow and the gaps that stand in its way
• Deploy custom-tailored programming to grow
  selected businesses. You will be in charge of designing, leading and
  managing programs aimed at growing these businesses
• Coach and guide entrepreneurs through our
  programs. The goal of this is for our entrepreneurs to fully maximise the
  value of these programs to grow their businesses
• Build and manage relationships with
  potential candidates and selected companies in our programs. You will be
  expected to ensure we continue to maintain a great relationship with
  potential candidates into our programs and selected entrepreneurs
  throughout the duration of our programs and afterward
• Manage a growing team. At the beginning,
  you will directly manage two people. We expect this number to grow as our
  work and programs grow over time
• Strategic projects management. Working
  closely with our management team, directly lead some strategic
  initiatives, particularly cross-functional efforts as needed
• Doing whatever it takes to give an
  UNREASONABLE advantage to companies. We are a small entrepreneurial team
  that steps up when there is work to be done. At times, you’ll be expected
  to work outside of just your role to contribute to our team’s overall
  efforts.

• The ideal candidate must demonstrate capabilities
  in a broad variety of sectors including business start up, education,
  program management or something else. We are more interested in your
  abilities to demonstrate to us how you have demonstrated these abilities
  in the multiple contexts in which you have and are not limiting the ways
  you have demonstrated them.
• A minimum of five years of relevant
  experience. You have done a similar role or done similar tasks in multiple
  past roles
• Strong diagnostic, analytical and
  pattern-recognition skills
• You are able to sit down with an
  entrepreneur and quickly diagnose and understand the key drivers in their
  business and the key challenges they are facing
• Ability to recognize “symptom patterns”
  that entrepreneurs report in a diagnostic interview and identify the
  underlying root causes of those symptoms
• You are able to match an entrepreneur’s
  need to our resources
• You have played a key role in creating and
  structuring programming designed for optimum learning experience. It
  doesn’t matter which kind of environment you have done this, but the
  workshop/training sessions should have been highly rated
• You have been the lead facilitator for a
  project / program. This could have been facilitating across multiple
  departments or facilitating multiple organisations
• You have thrived in fast paced uncertain
  and unstructured backgrounds. You are used to and have succeeded in fast
  paced and fast changing environments.

• You have designed a program/project from
  scratch that you have successfully implemented. You took the program or
  project from a concept/idea, built an implementation plan and successfully
  rolled it out
• You have thrived in or have led a team
  that is culturally diverse. Our team and the entrepreneurs we work with
  are from culturally diverse backgrounds. We are also open to candidates
  that have not necessarily worked in such environments but have probably
  and successfully worked with clients from culturally diverse backgrounds
• You have experience in coaching, mentoring
  or supporting an individual or group of individuals through a growing /
  developing / learning experience
• You are constantly thinking of new
  programs, new ways of doing things, and are open to change and continuous
  improvement. We are even more excited about you having initiated the new program,
  change or improvement
• You are willing to tackle projects without
  much guidance/structure. We are still young, so while we have some
  structure, you will also be called upon to build structure. You can show
  us how you have stepped into ambiguous and disorganized situations and
  brought structure

• You have high levels of Emotional
  Intelligence. You are able to recognise and clearly separate
  between your own and other people’s emotion, distinguish between different
  feelings and emotions, label them, and use them to guide thinking and
  behaviour. You are able to manage and adjust emotions to adapt to
  environments or achieve one’s goals
• You are a great listener. To be
  successful in this role, you will need to listen carefully to teammates
  and our entrepreneurs to understand what is needed and design a path to
  get there
• You are organized. You have keen attention
  to detail, and an ability to keep things in order. You are able to create
  systems to keep things organized
• You believe that we > I (a
  hat tip to Skillshare for sharing this great value with us). We believe in
  finding ways to expand the pie so that everyone can get a larger slice
  rather than trying to claim as much value as possible from a fixed pie.
  Thus, we believe in pathological collaboration and that this journey is
  about all of us
• You know that the “magic is in the
  details”. You pay attention to the small things that make a
  difference. You believe that no task is too small
• Most importantly, you believe in the power
  of entrepreneurship to solving some of the greatest challenges that we
  face and will jump for an opportunity to play a small part in a grand
  journey as we seek to make our world a much better place

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