Key Roles and Responsibilities
Strategic Program Leadership
- Lead a major long-term engagement with a leading African foundation, shaping strategic objectives and ensuring high-quality delivery across all workstreams.
- Build and maintain trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, acting as a strategic advisor.
- Identify opportunities to deepen and expand the partnership as client needs evolve.
Represent the program externally, sharing insights through high-profile events, media engagement, and strategic dialogue with ecosystem leaders.
Investment Strategy and Analytic Leadership
- Develop investment theses that balance financial returns with social impact, defining clear criteria for investability.
- Evaluate companies through financial analysis, operational assessment, and impact measurement.
- Conduct primary research, including interviews with executives, investors, policymakers, and industry experts.
- Produce investment-grade deliverables in concise, decision-maker-ready slide decks.
- Work directly with client investment and program teams to shape recommendations.
- Manage commercially sensitive company data with discretion and rigour.
Evidence, Research and Learning
- Co-develop a dynamic learning agenda that is directly informed by, and responsive to, program teams, ensuring research priorities align with evolving strategy and on-the-ground needs.
- Design and oversee high-impact research studies and analytic workstreams that generate actionable insights to guide program direction and investment decisions.
- Select and manage research and implementation partners, ensuring timely, rigorous, and relevant outputs.
- Oversee publications, multimedia outputs, and dissemination strategies to strengthen thought leadership and influence across Africa’s digital economies landscape.
- Deliver peer-learning events and internal knowledge-sharing activities to ensure insights are absorbed, applied, and translated into programmatic action.
Team Management and Capacity Building
- Manage, lead, and mentor a multidisciplinary team of consultants.
- Anticipate emerging program needs and build a strong talent pipeline for the region.
- Lead recruitment for new hires as the Africa portfolio expands.
Financial Oversight and Reporting
- Manage financial resources effectively, including budget planning, forecasting, and cost control.
- Provide quarterly financial and progress reports to the client.
- Ensure rigorous internal tracking and documentation across all program activities.
Caribou Leadership
- Contribute actively to Caribou’s strategy and evolution as a member of the Senior Leadership Team.
- Participate in monthly leadership discussions, annual planning, and company-wide retreats.
- Provide regular updates to the Senior Leadership Team on program progress and learning.
- Offer strategic guidance to other Caribou teams working on Africa-based program components.
Africa Market Growth
- Develop and execute a strategy for Caribou’s business expansion across Africa.
- Cultivate relationships with prospective clients, funders, and ecosystem partners.
- Maintain a strong understanding of the regional funding landscape and competitive environment.
- Lead regional business development efforts, including proposal development and partnership shaping.
- Serve as Caribou’s ambassador in Africa, representing the organisation at major events and engaging with policy-makers and thought leaders.
- Build and maintain a regional talent pool for future hiring.
- Oversee additional Africa-based programs as the portfolio grows.
About You
Essential Experience
Strategy consulting background (5+ years)
- Building analytical frameworks from complex information and producing executive-facing deliverables under pressure
- Experience in top-tier strategy firms or impact consultancies strongly valued
Impact investing experience
- Reading and analyzing company financials (P&Ls, balance sheets, cash flows) and understanding unit economics, scalability, and business model viability
- Prior work in impact investing, private equity, venture capital, or corporate development
Impact measurement fluency
- Quantifying and qualifying social outcomes (employment, gender inclusion, job quality) and understanding trade-offs between financial returns and social impact
- Experience with gender lens investing or inclusive business models
Africa digital economies / tech expertise
- Deep familiarity with African markets and experience managing investment portfolios or consulting projects in African countries, specifically in digital economies or the tech sector more broadly.
- Existing networks in entrepreneurial, business, government, or development sectors
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Key Responsibilities and Deliverables
- Support the director in the development of and investment theses that balance financial returns with social impact, defining clear criteria for what makes companies investable
- Evaluate companies against investment criteria through financial analysis, operational assessment, and impact measurement
- Conduct primary research and ecosystem assessments including stakeholder interviews with company executives, investors, policymakers, and industry experts
- Produce investment-grade deliverables in the form of slide decks (not academic reports) for decision-makers
- Interface directly with investment and program teams throughout the engagement
- Manage confidential information appropriately when handling commercially sensitive company data
About You
Essential Experience
Strategy consulting background (3+ years)
- Building analytical frameworks from complex information and producing executive-facing deliverables under pressure
- Experience in top-tier strategy firms or impact consultancies strongly valued
Investment evaluation skills
- Reading and analyzing company financials (P&Ls, balance sheets, cash flows) and understanding unit economics, scalability, and business model viability
- Prior work in strategy consulting, impact investing, private equity, venture capital, or corporate development
Impact measurement fluency
- Quantifying and qualifying social outcomes (employment, gender inclusion, job quality) and understanding trade-offs between financial returns and social impact
- Experience with gender lens investing or inclusive business models
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