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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