The Disruptors Den

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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.