JOB DESCRIPTION
About You
- Strong commercial experience is a must have. This may be gained through working as a management consultant or within corporate strategy, business planning or marketing functions, ideally within the telecoms industry.
- Strategic and analytical capabilities in understanding and assessing new business models, including experience identifying commercial opportunities and their potential impact when successfully scaled.
- Interest and experience in operator strategies for driving inclusion of the underserved, specifically through digital skills or customer education campaigns. Ideally, you have experience in delivering or engaging with digital skills interventions aimed at underserved populations. Experience on initiatives to improve handset affordability is a plus.
- Familiarity with reaching undeserved populations, such as women, rural, low-income or persons with disabilities, in low- and middle-income countries is a must have. Ideally this would be through experience in the mobile for development sector and/or working with mobile operators in emerging markets.
- Experience working across cultures with globally dispersed teams.
- Ability to work independently, self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and organised to deliver high-impact outputs.
- Strong interpersonal, relationship-building and public speaking skills are a must have, in order to develop constructive relationships with diverse stakeholders with an emphasis on mobile network operators. Ideally candidates would have solid experience of C-suite level interactions.
- Project management skills, fluent and compelling written and oral communication (English is essential), the ability to summarise insights and articulate concisely in both PowerPoint and other reports. Conscientious and creative with a can-do attitude, and capable of managing complex projects that may present unexpected challenges.
- A professional working knowledge of French would be helpful for this role.
- Excited to travel
Salary
Competitive
Monthly based
Location
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
Job Overview
Location
Nairobi, Nairobi County, Kenya
