Entrepreneurship Program Manager
Job Description:
- Lead centralized rollout of the FA cohorts, including onboarding, live sessions, milestone management, and grading.
- Ensure seamless communication and coordination across content, platform, and city support teams.
- Work closely with curriculum and ecosystem stakeholders to continuously improve Founder Academy's structure and outcomes.
- Manage recruitment and onboarding of mentors, reviewers, and session facilitators.
- Coordinate decentralized delivery of the incubator program across cities, providing central support tools and frameworks.
- Track incubator progress across cohorts and hubs, aligning cities to shared standards and timelines.
- Support planning and execution of final showcase events, including coordinating city inputs and participant selection.
- Manage the Learning Management System (LMS) and Community Platform for FA and Incubator, ensuring smooth learner access and milestone tracking.
- Coordinate with the technical team to monitor learner progress and engagement using analytics dashboards.
- Oversee grading workflows, learner support escalation, and implementation of program updates.
- Define and track cohort-level KPIs: show-up, activation, milestone completion, graduation, and learner quality.
Requirements:
- 8-10 years of experience in a fast-paced, high-growth environment (e.g., tech, entrepreneurship, consulting, operations, strategy).
- Proven track record of leading large-scale entrepreneurship initiatives, assuming ownership, and delivering results in high visibility and/or large scale contexts.
- Strong access to networks and influence within the African entrepreneurial ecosystem.
- Deep experience in early-stage venture building.
- Must have led or built founder-facing programs, such as accelerators, incubators, venture studios, or entrepreneurship fellowships and demonstrated ability to guide aspiring founders from ideation through launch in emerging market contexts.
- Strategic and operational program leadership.
- Proven experience in designing, evolving, and executing complex, in-country and regional programs.
- Strong people and team leadership.
- High emotional intelligence, capable of navigating interpersonal dynamics, mediating team conflict, and supporting diverse talent.
- Regional familiarity and ecosystem fluency.
- Deeply organized, tech-savvy, and energized by working with emerging technology startup founders and comfortable navigating complexity across multiple teams, cities, and workflows.
Benefits:
- Regular communication with city teams to align localized support and coordinate city team involvement in core delivery.
- Provide toolkits and support to city teams implementing complementary incubator activities.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Engineering, CX Ops, and the Cities team.
- Maintain a clear documentation system and contribute to the scaling playbook for FA and Incubator programs.
- Foster a strong peer-to-peer learning community within FA cohorts.
- Maintain regular communication with city teams to align localized support and coordinate city team involvement in core delivery.
- Hire and manage technical reviewers, facilitators, and support staff and interns as needed.
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