Africa Foresight Group (www.africaforesight.com) is an African-owned and managed talent network that offers freelance consulting services across the continent. At AFG, we aim to build African companies into global champions by offering world-class and locally accessible services. We are excited to work with talented, international leaders with a whole-hearted commitment to contributing to sustainable growth in African economies.<\/p>\n
As the network manager at AFG, you will be in charge of building two exciting new initiatives that focus on offering training and PR opportunities to\u00a0a curated list of \u201chidden champions\u201d companies in Africa. Both initiatives, scheduled to run for at least 3 years, are conceptualized based on the firm belief that the African continent is home to exciting businesses that need more visibility and scaling support. The location for this is Accra, Ghana \u2013 however, we are open to hiring a candidate who is based in Johannesburg, Lagos or Nairobi and willing to work remotely.<\/p>\n
Job Description<\/strong><\/p>\n Job Title:\u00a0Network Manager<\/strong><\/p>\n Who you are<\/strong><\/p>\n -You are passionate about private sector development in Africa<\/p>\n -In your 3-5 years of working experience, you have focused on working in the African private sector and\/or NGOs that focus on building stakeholder networks<\/p>\n -You hold a BSc Degree from a leading African or foreign tertiary institution; MSc is great but not a must<\/p>\n -Throughout your career, you have developed a strong entrepreneurial spirit and \u201ccan do\u201d attitude<\/p>\n -You are a strong communicator, both in writing and verbally, who can build relationships with different levels of stakeholders easily<\/p>\n -You are passionate about bringing people together and have a creative approach to building stakeholder experiences<\/p>\n -Direct feedback is a must for you and working in a fast-paced team environment does not scare you, but rather motivates you<\/p>\n -You care about working in a highly supportive environment with\u00a0team members who are dedicated and help each other<\/p>\n -Researching strong content, building compelling presentations and strategic brainstorming are things you do in your sleep<\/p>\n Your responsibilities<\/strong><\/p>\n -Support the conceptualisation phase for both initiatives AFG is planning to launch to connect \u201chidden champions\u201d across Africa<\/p>\n -Collaborate with our tech and creative teams to build web platforms for both initiatives<\/p>\n -Liaise with donors and partners for both initiatives to seek their input and report back to them on progress on a regular basis<\/p>\n -Fully launch and scale both initiatives in collaboration with the AFG growth team<\/p>\n -Collaborate with PR Firm on building awareness around both initiatives<\/p>\n Closing Date<\/strong>\u00a0: 22 August, 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Africa Foresight Group (www.africaforesight.com) is an African-owned and managed talent network that offers freelance consulting services across the continent. At AFG, we aim to build African companies into global champions…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-cUV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49657"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}