BUSINESS INCUBATION MANAGER – JOB

Youth Qlick International is a non-profit organization that is purposed to equip and empower young people especially in Africa for socio-economic development. Our main focus is to promote entrepreneurship among the youth, equip them with resources and guide them into self-employment. This organization seeks to enhance the skills, talents, and opportunities of the youth to interact more comfortably with their immediate environments in order to become proficient and well-rounded in ethics, leadership, entrepreneurship, and critical reasoning in this post-modern era. We assist disadvantaged and vulnerable skilled young men and women who wish to start their own business and earn a living from their skills but lack the capital to do so. We also provide continuous capacity-building training on small business management and offer tailor-made business advice to ensure that businesses set up by our beneficiaries survive.
We do this by organizing youth empowerment programs such as summer camps/schools and are now scaling up our approach by launching a 6-month long incubator program. We are currently in search of a part-time employee who will serve as the Business Incubation Manager for our Incubator project. This project seeks to contribute to the creation of a robust circular economy in Ghana where all resources are effectively used to maximize impact.

Job Title: Business Incubation Manager
Employment location: Ghana, 60% Remote
Job Status: Part-time contract
Salary: Voluntary service with allowance and wages only during major projects.
Start date: 1st 15th April 2022

JOB DESCRIPTION• Develop and execute the strategy for outreach, scouting, attracting and onboarding
deserving and qualified innovative entrepreneurs and start-ups.
• Designing & managing the Incubation programs.
• Provide high-quality coaching and advisory support to entrepreneurs
• Manage the day-to-day interaction with the Incubatees
• Provide support to entrepreneurs across ideation, acceleration, investment, and scaleupstage.
• Ensure tight management of milestones and progress of entrepreneurs and start-up
companies.
• Develop, execute and own an operational and engagement strategy for the entire
community including donors, startups, investors, corporates, mentors, advisors, and domain
experts.
• Provide continued strategic guidance to entrepreneurs in areas such as business modelling, sales, and marketing, fundraising, overall strategy, operations, etc.
• Be the liaison for entrepreneurs to access relevant resources and connections• Any additional job assigned by the management within reasonable limits.

Job requirements
• Minimum Bachelor’s Degree in a Business Administration or related field and 5-years related
work experience.
• Experience in starting, owning, operating and/or managing a small business.
• Candidate must possess adequate knowledge about the UN Sustainable Development Goals
• At least 3-5 years of experience working with entrepreneurs, start-ups, learning/ tinkering
labs, incubator or incubation consultancy
• Good understanding of the Ghanaian social entrepreneurship ecosystem.
• Candidate must be tech-savvy and comfortable working with digital tools.
• Demonstrated ability to cultivate, build and maintain strong working relationships with startups, entrepreneurs, mentors, universities, research institutions, industry experts,
associations, chamber of commerce & industries, state & central government, and
angel investors.
• Ability to communicate effectively and use interpersonal skills to interact with team
members, supervisor, the general public, etc. to sufficiently exchange or convey information
and to receive work direction.
• Development Cooperation (DC) experience: 5 years of experience in DC projects.

At Youth Qlick International! You can expect.
• Opportunities to nurture project management skills in a start-up scene.
• Opportunities to develop skills in the use of digital productivity tools like Google docs,
• Asana, Slack, etc.
• Opportunities to work within a multinational and multicultural team.
• Mentoring from experienced social entrepreneurs to assist in developing your
• professional career.
• Access to our vast network of partner organizations institutions both locally and
• Internationally.
• Opportunities to attend local, regional and international conferences and workshops
• Scholarship opportunities for further studies through our development partners.

Interested applicants should submit their CV/resume and motivational letter to hr@youthqlick.org