Social Enterprise Founder at Enviu

Core responsibilities

• Perform in-depth research and root cause analysis into the systemic, and ecosystem issues, following our internal venture building methodology.
• Ideate and design desirable and scalable game-changing business concepts.
• Be a product manager who is responsible for defining the “market – value proposition – product” triangle.
• Quickly pilot and test different business models or assumptions.
• Design business concepts for scalability and replicability, leveraging technological innovation.
• Set up and grow the new company: including hiring the first team, building foundations of operations, financial modelling, budgeting, setting legal compliance and more.
• Raise funds (both grants and equity) - identify funders, prepare pitch deck, grant-writing and due diligence processes.
• Engage and work together with partners, both large and small organizations, commercial and non-commercial.

Who we are looking for!

You’d be perfect for the role if:

• Working experience >6 years of which at least 2 years are as co-founder of a start-up (with >3 employees).
• Educational qualification in management, or economics; preferably a master’s degree.
• High learning drive, and openness to constantly learn, empathize, shift perspectives where needed to operate in a dynamic industry.
• Ability to think conceptually, with a systemic & strategic lens are necessary; and can switch between entrepreneurial thinking and conceptual systems thinking.
• Knowledge and intuition with lean thinking concepts are necessary.
• Proven experience in co-building solutions/ ventures/ projects, along with a peer. We work in teams, with multiple entrepreneurs jointly building a solution, and it is important that you believe in a team approach to entrepreneurship.
• Strong communication skills with significant experience in public speaking, and in operating in multi-functional, multi-cultural teams.
• Experience in innovation, business modelling and/or product design is an advantage.
• Furthermore, the ideal candidate is a people manager, fluent in English, and can work independently. The job will be performed in Nairobi, Kenya and we are specifically looking for a local candidate.