EFIP 2015 opportunities [time sensitive]

Paid Fellowships at LDI Africa
LDI Africa is an award winning social enterprise that connects African organizations, entrepreneurs and professionals to the global marketplace using the expertise of skilled volunteers.
We need your help to identify rising business and social enterprise leaders to apply for the fellowship positions listed below. Fellows will have the unique opportunity to work with Africa’s best investment funds and position emerging businesses towards the path of sustainable growth. Opportunities also exist for permanent consulting and employment positions. You can help either through word of mouth, social media, or email communication.
Interested candidates should visit http://www.ldiafrica.org/africa-fellowship/ to apply by November 30, 2014. Earlier submissions will be given priority.

 
iROKO TV
Location: Nigeria
Job Description: Fellows will serve at Iroko TV as VP of Sales (Africa), Vice President (Global) and VP Operations. iROKOtv.com, dubbed The “Netflix of Africa”, is the world’s largest online distributor of African movies, with an audience of over 6 million people worldwide. Iroko TV has been featured in Techcrunch, CNN, CNBC Africa, BBC, Variety, Financial Times, Economist, The Forbes and many others. We are seeking professionals with the background of working with major broadcasting / TV networks where they would have been intricately involved in the aspects of content acquisition, contract negotiation, business development, and understanding of the African business infrastructure and how to monetize African.

One Acre Fund
Location: West and East Africa
Description: Fellows will serve in multiple locations across East and West Africa. One Acre Fund is a growing social enterprise in Kenya, Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania that is innovating a new way of helping farm families to achieve their full potential. Instead of giving handouts, One Acre Fund invests in farmers to generate a permanent gain in farm income. We provide farmers with a “service bundle” that includes education, finance, seed and fertilizer, and market facilitation.

Amani Institute
Location: Kenya
Description: Fellow will serve at The Amani Institute as Program Director. The Amani Institute – Preparing next-generation talent to tackle global challenges by filling the gap between university and the workforce through a new approach to higher education. By training a highly skilled workforce to tackle global challenges, the Amani Institute is helping organizations work more effectively in pursuing social change. Amani Institute graduates students will contribute to the growth of the organizations they are placed in, both during their apprenticeships as well as when they are employed full-time. They are also better equipped to start their own ventures.

Generation Enterprise
Location: Nigeria
Description: Fellow will serve in the capacity of Portfolio Direct and Operations Director. Generation Enterprise (GEN) is a small-business incubator that co-creates scalable businesses with unemployed and marginalized youth. In doing so, we create sustainable jobs and get youth off the streets in low-income communities in Lagos. Funded by the World Bank, Wharton, Stanford, McKinsey, Microsoft, Google, JP Morgan, and CEB among others, GEN is partnership of Generation Enterprise, a 501(c)3 non-profit based in the USA, Generational Model Youth Empowerment Initiative (GYMEI), an incorporated trustee non-profit in Nigeria, and Dhriiti, a Delhi-based non-profit.

Edge Growth
Location: South Africa
Fellow will serve at Edge Growth as an Investment Associate. Edge Growth is a specialist Enterprise Development company. Recognized as one of the leading Enterprise Development (ED) specialists in the market and invited to write several articles and to speak as the primary speaker at many of the first ED conferences held in SA, as well as the odd global conference. EG serviced the world’s largest mines and South Africa’s largest banks, amongst others. EG provides 3 core services: ED Fund Management, SME Growth Support, and ED Strategy and Advisory
TLG Capital
Location: Ghana
Description: Fellows will serve as CFO and CTO at a TLG Capital’s portfolio company in Ghana. TLG Capital was set up in 2009 to invest and work with companies in frontier markets. Though TLG is commercially focused, its investment philosophy is to invest in existing management in a social and ethical manner, believing that this represents the best way to garner long term results and contribute to macroeconomic sustainable growth.
The Joseph Initiative
Location: Uganda
Description: Fellows will serve at The Joseph Initiative as Project Manager and Supply Chain Financial Analyst. The Joseph Initiative Limited is an East Africa grain trading company operating out of the Masindi District of Western Uganda. As an integrated supply chain for agricultural commodities, the JI purchases, processes, bulks, and markets corn, capturing efficiencies and effectively managing quality. The JI leverages a network infrastructure of rural maize aggregation centers called Joseph Centers and centralized processing to more efficiently source and handle maize produced by smallholder farmers (80% of the primary producers throughout East Africa) and cut post-harvest losses due to insufficient quality management capabilities.
Other fellowship based opportunities include

LDI Africa – GE Africa Fellowship (Africa-wide)
 
LDI Africa – Ashesi University Fellowship (Ghana)
 
LDI Africa – Africa Leadership Academy (South Africa)

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