Impact Associate
Johannesburg/Nairobi/Lagos
Founders Factory Africa – Embedded Impact and Learning /
Hybrid
About Us
At Founders Factory Africa (FFA), we believe entrepreneurs are the key to realising Africa’s growth and sustainable development. Recognizing entrepreneurs’ enormous potential, it is our vision to build a powerful entrepreneurial growth engine to deliver lasting impact and drive prosperity across the continent. Founders Factory Africa (FFA) is unlike any place else you’ve ever worked. We are venture builders dedicated to solving some of Africa’s biggest challenges and capitalising on its incredible potential by leveraging market and tech opportunities. Over the next five years, we’ll build 30 businesses from scratch, scale 100 existing growth-stage ventures and empower a new generation of 5,000 aspiring entrepreneurs through our programs.
Our Culture
Our goals are audacious, and we want to work with people who share our passion for pursuing transformation at scale. We believe that good ideas can come from anywhere - not just the top - and we love to build our way out of uncertainty. At FFA, you will work with and meet outstanding and diverse talent from across the continent and help us build a collaborative, inclusive, and supportive network. You will work faster (and learn faster) than you ever have before. With offices in Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi, and London, we are building an ambitious, talented and passionate team, ensuring that Founders Factory Africa is the continent’s best partner for founders.
The Role
Be a part of building the most powerful growth engine for African startups. Founders Factory Africa (FFA) exists to create a thriving African startup economy that drives prosperity across Africa. We are venture builders dedicated to solving some of Africa’s biggest challenges and capitalizing on its incredible potential by leveraging market and tech opportunities. We seek to build an ecosystem that supports authentic innovation, and our goal is to be the best growth engine for entrepreneurs across Africa and beyond. We believe by supporting entrepreneurship and innovation, we will unlock employment opportunities and drive inclusive growth across the continent. FFA is looking to hire a full-time Impact Associate to support the execution of our impact strategy and ensure we accurately track our progress toward making a meaningful, measurable impact across Africa. The successful candidate will report to the Embedded Impact and Learning Director while working closely with different FFA teams to support various aspects of impact measurement and management. The candidate must have a good understanding of impact measurement and management frameworks, processes, methods, and tools.
Responsibilities
Support venture impact analysis throughout FFA’s investment process (e.g., during screening, qualifying, and due diligence).
Craft venture-level theories of change/results chains and assess venture impact potential and risks.
Conduct additional research on opportunities and risks to support ventures in defining and solidifying their impact on key stakeholders within their ecosystems and value chains.
Develop venture-level KPIs aligned to the business model and impact potential as well as broader FFA strategy.
Conduct onboarding sessions to support founders with impact-related measurement and reporting.
Build venture-level impact capacity by suggesting and/or setting up tools and processes that streamline impact measurement and management.
Support ongoing portfolio and organizational-level data collection, monitoring, and reporting efforts as per our FFA impact strategy.
Contribute to the design and execution of venture-level impact validation studies to understand how solutions have contributed to specific outcomes for users and other stakeholders.
Candidate Profile
Minimum of three years of experience in a similar role within an impact investment firm, impact accelerator/incubator, private sector development program, etc.
Knowledge and understanding of key frameworks and methodologies in impact measurement and management (e.g., theories of change, IMP’s 5 Dimensions of Impact, GIIN, IRIS+, UNPRI, etc.)
Understanding of venture building, accelerators, and investments in early-stage startups in AfricaAbility to deploy a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative research methods and tools
Appetite for collecting and analyzing data to produce meaningful reports to diverse stakeholders and audiences
Experience in data visualization tools like Power BI, google studio, QlikView or Tableau is a plus
Based in Johannesburg, Nairobi or Lagos
