Call for National Consultants – Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Builders in Africa
Location: Flexible within Africa
Boost Africa Technical Assistance Facility
Adam Smith Europe is running the Boost Africa Technical Assistance Facility, a five-year programme, financed by the European Investment Bank.
Boost Africa TAF seeks to strengthen the core professional and operational skills, networks, and scalability of African venture capital funds and their investee enterprises. Our value proposition to upskill the management teams and stimulate the growth of the beneficiary companies consists of access to core skills training, one-to-one mentoring, and bespoke support.
Background
Our team will design 6-monthly TA cycles to boost the businesses. The first implementation phase begins in July 2021.
To prepare for this next phase, we are conducting a general call for consultants with relevant profiles interested in short-term consultancy assignments to support the funds and the investee companies
Requirements
o Accounting, administration and finance
o Corporate law
o Taxation
o Talent Management
o Capital raising
o Mergers & acquisitions
o LP engagement
o Pipeline generation, due diligence, and deal structure
o Financial modelling
o ESG & Impact measurement
o Post investment and exits
o Application development (Coding/programming)
o Digital marketing and customer acquisition
Heard Enough? Ready to Apply?
If you fulfil the criteria and want to be part of our selected group of consultants, please email your CV in EU format, fill in the skills matrix, and inform your daily remuneration rate in Euro to info@boostafrica.eu.
We will review CVs on an ongoing basis until June 15.
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