Responsibilities
- Deepen Included VC Africa’s community partnerships, with a particular focus on broadening our reach across underserved markets and advancing the organization’s vision.
- Proactively identify and facilitate career opportunities for Fellows by matching them with relevant roles, coordinating warm introductions, and supporting their transition into the investment ecosystem.
- Help create the conditions for each cohort - and the wider network around it - to become a self-organizing community that supports each person’s journey through technology and entrepreneurship.
- Help shape and share the outward story of the Fellowship - including spotlighting Fellows, amplifying deep dives and insights, and making more of what happens inside the programme visible across the ecosystem.
- Build and maintain meaningful relationships across the global venture and startup ecosystem.
- Coordinate with the Founder/CEO to help deliver world-class experiences.
- Over time, build strong relationships with founders, investors, sponsors, and others across the Included VC Africa global community.
- Design and launch new experimental offerings based on feedback and your own creativity.
- Help ensure Fellows have an experience they consistently describe as career-defining, community-shaping, and unlike anything else they’ve experienced professionally.
- Be the go-to point of contact for Fellows, and act as our eyes and ears on the ground by building strong relationships with each of them.
Requirements
- Natural community-builder – understands the long game and how to cultivate positive-sum value across a network.
- Has experience and networks in the entrepreneurial and investment ecosystem – and knows how to build meaningful relationships across founders, investors, sponsors, and the wider community.
- Has a strong “spirit of service” - where you think first about how you can give, rather than take, and always look for ways to support Fellows to the max of your ability.
- Great interpersonal skills and charisma - enjoys building new relationships, creating trust across different kinds of people and settings, and representing Included VC Africa warmly and well.
- Strong communication skills - verbal, written, and presentational, with the ability to spot stories, shape them clearly, and help share the work of the Fellowship in a compelling way.
- Commercially and socially aware – able to identify opportunities, make thoughtful introductions, help Fellows build genuine momentum, and understand what will resonate across the wider ecosystem.
- Thrives comfortably operating in a lean, high-ownership environment where priorities evolve, and initiative is required.
Nice to Have
- Experience with tools like Zapier, Make, Notion, Airtable, or AI-assisted workflows.
Benefits
- Significant autonomy, leadership opportunity and career path potential to Community & Marketing Director.
- Remote work and flexible schedule; collaborate with a small, high‑impact team and global partners.
- Fellows say great things about us.
- Work that is both strategic and deeply human - designing experiences Fellows call career‑defining.. and then some.
