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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