Head of Business Development and Innovation job at Generation Action Africa
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Vacancy title:
Head of Business Development and Innovation

[ Type: FULL TIME , Industry: Nonprofit, and NGO , Category: Business Operations ]

Jobs at:

Generation Action Africa

Deadline of this Job:
28 January 2023  

Duty Station:
Within Kenya , Nairobi , East Africa

Summary
Date Posted: Sunday, January 15, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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JOB DETAILS:

TO BE SUCCESSFUL YOU'LL NEED:
Knowledge, Qualifications And Experience
• Bachelor degree in Marketing/Sales.
• 10+ years in leadership roles, driving and implementing sales growth.
• Strong understanding of Kenyan employers and industries relevant to job placements.
• Proven track record of growing revenue through the development of strong propositions, marketing, branding, and partnerships, and sales execution.
• Proven experience developing and executing business strategy.
• Significant general management and P&L experience.
• History of decision-making based on business metrics.
• Inspirational leadership style and hands-on approach.

Skills And Abilities
• Proficient in MS Office 365 applications.
• Track record of recruiting and developing A-star staff.
• Strong organizational management skills.

Personal Qualities
• Integrity, positive attitude, and self-directed with a demonstrated passion for Generation’s mission.
• Strong fit with Generation Kenya’s culture, able to demonstrate highest reflection of values.

Other requirements
• Position is located in Kenya and the holder speaks and writes fluent English.
• Ability to travel frequently within Kenya, and potential occasional travel in the counties.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:
The role is required to lead Generation Kenya’s effort to grow the employer pipeline, generate placements and secure employer income
• Grow the base of employers recruiting from Generation Kenya’s programmes.
• Oversee all efforts to sign up employers across Kenya.
• Deliver high rates of interview conversion rate from strong employer engagement, plus feeding back learnings to the curriculum and instruction (C&I) (both local and global) for ongoing improvement.
• Increase engagement per employer i.e., ‘more recruits per employer’ and increased rate of repeat hiring from strong employer account management.
• Develop strong relationships with 25-50 strategic ‘at-scale’ employers (hands on).
• Support Generation Kenya with best practices business development structures to optimise impact for key stakeholders – youth, private and public sectors.
• All the above feed into securing at least 80% job opportunities per program to support Generation Kenya’s growth plans while achieving market-leading rates of employment outcomes and social impact.
• Grow employer income to cover 50% of operating costs over 3-5 years.
• Build channel partnerships as routes to market.
• Build the lead relationships with ecosystem partners like Microsoft, securing vacancies through them as an effective route to market.
• Build and lead relationships with other ‘lead generating partners such as KAM and KEPSA, etc.
• Develop a framework / tool for vacancy projections / predictions.


Work Hours: 8


Experience in Months: 120

Level of Education:
Bachelor Degree

Job application procedure

INTERESTED candidates please submit your applications to genkcareers@generation.org  attaching your latest resume and application. Shortlisting / Interviews will be conducted until the position is filled. Kindly indicate in the Email subject:


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Job Info
Job Category: NGO - Non Government Organisations jobs in Kenya
Job Type: Full-time
Deadline of this Job: 28 January 2023
Duty Station: Nairobi
Posted: 15-01-2023
No of Jobs: 1
Start Publishing: 15-01-2023
Stop Publishing (Put date of 2030): 15-01-2066
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