Job Requirements
Compulsory
- Recent graduate, having graduated with an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in the
last 3 years - Strong academic background
- Strong Microsoft Office and Google suite skillset, particularly Excel
- Flexible working hours
- Will be required to locate to Nairobi for the initial 4-6 months as part of their training program
- Ability to complete training material in their own time.
- Strong and demonstratable interest in VC, fintech or climate tech.
Strongly Preferred
- Numerical degree
Preferable
- CFA Level I or above
- Some exposure to private equity/venture capital/corporate finance
- Some exposure to writing articles, white papers, and media pieces
- Some exposure to reviewing legal documents
- Some exposure to institutional fundraising
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
Deal origination and assessment
- Support deal lead in building a proprietary deal pipeline
- Responsible for ensuring all deals are appropriately recorded and processed in a timely
manner - Work with the deal team to assess new deal opportunities
- Build out financial models and return analysis
- Support in writing investment memos
- Market research and due diligence on deals
- Scheduling
meetings and maintaining communication with founders - Supporting in all deal admin
- Other ad hoc tasks
Portfolio management
- Support portfolio director in completing and monitoring KPI & 100-day plans
- Taking notes during scheduled strategic and financial update calls
- Sending out and following up on action points that come from these calls
- Supporting deal lead on follow-on investments
- Work with the portfolio team to provide support to portfolio companies when required.
- Work with the portfolio director to ensure portfolio companies’ reporting is complete on time.
- Following up with portfolio companies on their obligations, such as loan repayments
- Occasionally, interns may be seconded to portfolio companies to complete urgent tasks.
Thought Leadership
- Support in producing market research and sector whitepapers
- Support in producing monthly investor newsletter
- Support in producing thought leadership articles and media
- Consistently update the team on ongoing developments in venture capital space
- Keeping a calendar of upcoming venture capital events and webinars
Fund administration and fundraising
- Support with writing portfolio reports for LPs
- Support with producing investor materials for fundraises
- Helping schedule investor meetings and maintaining notes on all meetings
- Helping organize investor open days
Training Requirements
- Successful and timely completion of all training materials
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