Venture Builder

About us BFA Global is an impact innovation firm that combines research, advisory, venture building, and investment expertise to build a more inclusive, equitable, and resilient future for underserved people and the planet. We partner with leading public, private, and philanthropic organizations, both global and local, to catalyze innovation ecosystems for impact across emerging markets.About Jobtech AllianceThe Jobtech Alliance, launched in late 2021, is a pioneering initiative focused on inclusive jobtech in Africa. Our goal is to support digital platforms that connect individuals to work opportunities, including gig-matching platforms, job-matching services, and e-commerce marketplaces. Through two main workstreams, we aim to create an enabling environment for entrepreneurs to build platforms that provide quality livelihoods. This involves expanding the sector's knowledge base through research, community-building, and highlighting its significance. Simultaneously, we work to enhance funding by curating investors, fostering discussions on sector financing, and addressing critical policy and infrastructure needs. The Jobtech Alliance has a grant portfolio allows us to conduct various acceleration activities with jobtech start-ups. We partner with jobtech start-ups across 10 African markets to support strategy, product, and operational innovations that make their services more viable, scalable, inclusive, and/or deliver better-quality jobs for their users. The program deploys a range of support to start-ups, including technical assistance, project delivery support, grant capital, and connections to investors and other partners. We are now expanding to North Africa (Egypt, Tunisia, and Morocco) and looking for team members to support us in the new markets. About the RoleThe role of venture builders has two essential functions: accelerating jobtech startups and strengthening the ecosystem that supports them. This involves directly working with startups to drive their growth, gathering insights through research to shape the support strategy, sharing knowledge and learnings with the broader ecosystem, and engaging with stakeholders to foster business growth.What you’ll doAs a Senior Venture Builder at BFA Global, we seek someone with the following capabilities:Lead venture building (VB) engagements for startups in North Africa, especially Morocco, Egypt, and Tunisia. This includes:Running the VB engagement from beginning to end Building strong relationships with the startups in the programs, Scoping the support activities that would accelerate their journey to Product-Market Fit, Coordinating with relevant specialists to deliver on the scope of work,Providing hands-on expertise and specialist support when needed,Ensuring the startup is fully satisfied with the support offered and provides the programs with a high NPS while remaining within the venture-building engagement budget.To strengthen their networks, facilitate connections between ventures and potential partners, funders, and industry experts.Engage with ecosystem stakeholders as part of the Jobtech Alliance, which includes:Foster relationships with key stakeholders across North Africa, including investors, donors, and ecosystem enablers, to strengthen the jobtech sector.Represent Jobtech Alliance at industry events, conferences, and forums, advocating for inclusive job creation and venture-building approaches.Develop blogs, case studies, and knowledge-sharing resources based on learnings from venture engagementsContribute to thought leadership by identifying innovative approaches and trends in venture building for jobtechIdentifying areas of synergy with investors who might be interested in investing in portfolio startups,Gathering any investor and ecosystem recommendations for startups that Jobtech Alliance can consider as candidates for future cohorts.Qualifications & Requirements:7+ years of experience working as a venture builder at an accelerator, investment fund, or as part of a fast-growing startup teamAdvanced degree in Business, Finance, Engineering or equivalent. MBAs are also a plus.Strong experience supporting startups across emerging markets globally in developing products and analyzing data to understand the business performanceExpertise in lean product management, including design sprints, value proposition design, hypothesis-driven experimentation, roadmaps prioritization, as well as business modellingExperience investing in startups or helping startups raise fundsMust demonstrate the ability to think on your feet, i.e. a “hacker” mentalityAbility to work in a fast-paced, startup environment, with strong attention to detail for all tasks, even virtuallyAbility to mentor and coach startup founders and teams,Ability to complete tasks promptly while balancing several assignments with inputs from multiple team membersStrong analytical skills to perform data deep dives on startups' dataAbility to run trials and MVPs, set up experiments, deve