The Business Operations Fellow must always be answering the question, “How can I improve this system?”, “How can I fix this process?”, “What do we need to make this work?”. The fellow will always be on his/her toes, quick to find creative and cost effective solutions to a specific challenges.
This is a short term, 3 to 6 months role. A stipend to cater for your personal needs and accommodation will be provided.
As the Business Operations Fellow, a typical day might include:
Building a financial model from scratch
Visiting the field to follow a technical expert and document his/her every move then writing an SOP about it
Planning the logistics operations for a field based project
Creating a template for documenting project scope, timeline, budget and deliverable… then being asked to make it half as long and twice as easy to use
Surfing the internet to see what resources already exist for a solution to a challenge, then taking it, scraping most of it and building it better
This opportunity might be for you, if
You love building puzzles and solving riddles
You love understanding an operational challenge and coming up with a sustainable solution
You get bored doing the same thing day after day
You love analyzing data in Excel and providing meaningful answers from the information
You love producing high-quality polished work no matter the audience or context of the work
How to get this opportunity:
In order to land this awesome opportunity you will need to love helping and growing people. A Bachelor’s degree in any related field from a prestigious university will definitely be helpful. If you want to move to sunny Kilifi on the Kenyan coast, do something meaningful which will have huge impact on the local communities, are not afraid of a complex and tough job, and want to grow professionally and personally then please apply for this role.
