About US:
Duma Works is changing the way people think about hiring. They are efficiently connecting employers and potential hires through our mobile platform, we make finding that perfect person a fun experience, allowing businesses to grow and job seekers to access new opportunities. Duma Works is a recruiting platform that fuses traditional human-centered recruiting and an interactive digital process to simplify how growing businesses hire top talent on the African continent. Since 2012, hundreds of employers all over East Africa have used DUMA Works to save time and money when identifying qualified job candidates. They are recruiting for a valuable client, is a reputable organization in East Africa that trains, support and invest in startups and entrepreneurs.

Our work is to support the growth of entrepreneurs and their businesses in East Africa. We identify high potential entrepreneurs building high potential companies from across East Africa, to attend programs that we design to grow them.

Job Summary: The VP of Venture Support will be tasked with identifying and selecting the right high potential businesses. The incumbent will design and execute on tailored programs that support these entrepreneurs to grow their businesses. Our VP of Venture Support will manage a growing team to achieve the goals of this role.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
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.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
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.

Desirables:
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

Skills + Capabilities:
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

How to Apply:
All suitably qualified and interested candidates should send a cover letter and detailed CVs via E-mail to: apply@jobs.dumaworks.com with the subject line as “2953”, Your Full name & Phone number e.g. 2953 Okedi Jonathan, +2567xxxxxxxx. If you don’t follow these instructions, your application will not go through.

N.B: You will receive a confirmation email and an alert to take a basic screening test over SMS or online. The email with the test may not arrive immediately. Please be patient. The email/SMS test will typically be 5-8 questions to help us understand your background. Regular SMS rates apply to the test. If you have any issues with the process, please reach out to +254702093793.

Deadline: 11th August 201