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Portfolio Manager
Job Description
Portfolio Management
- Assess portfolio company needs and develop a plan for post-investment support
- Play an active role in the strategy and direction of portfolio companies
- Working closely with the investments lead to manage relationships with the portfolio companies.
- Design reporting structure and support portfolio companies to improve reporting framework and optimize operational processes
- Liaise with portfolio companies on an ongoing basis to ensure monthly financial and KPI data is relevant and in line with budget
- Provide financial analysis and support to ad hoc value enhancement projects
- Collect and analyze investment portfolio data to monitor investment returns, risk levels and propose strategies to mitigate risk.
- Monitor and report country risk in assigned investment geographies.
- Provide fundraising support to portfolio companies
- Coordinate impact assessment of portfolio companies in collaboration with the investments and research team
Due Diligence
- Support investments team in carrying out due diligence and investment appraisals, including financial modeling, valuation review and structuring
- Support the investments team in preparing investment documentation
Qualifications
Qualifications
- 4 years of experience at a leading consulting, private equity, investment banking or venture capital firm
- Demonstrated business judgment and project management skills
- Has an in-depth understanding of competitive market environments, inclusive sub-sector development and value chain/market systems development
- Strong leadership, interpersonal, management, organizational and communication skills
- Previous track record of operational/reporting improvement
- Excellent MS Excel modelling and MS PowerPoint skills
- A strong academic background and should have a professional qualification or has made steps towards receiving other such qualification
Impact and Evaluation Analyst
Job Description
Job Purpose
- As Senior Impact and Evaluation Manager, you will be responsible for designing and delivering a rigorous monitoring and evaluation program for a project, aligning insights with theory of change, synthesizing impact insights, testing indicator benchmarks and improving internal quality assurance activities.
- Playing an important role in all aspects of the impact and evaluation journey, from design to delivery and finally dissemination, this will be an opportunity to gain experience in a variety of research activities such as designing data collection tools, conducting qualitative research, and data analysis.
Key Responsibilities
Deliver monitoring and evaluation insights
- Create standard and customized resources for service and project evaluation, such as a methodological framework, survey design, analysis tools, report templates, user guidance, and training.
- Lead in the creation of evaluation metrics and outcome indicators.
- Deliver micro and macro level evaluation for projects.
- Establish mechanisms for rapid feedback and learning within projects as well as for evolving a longer-term evaluation of program effectiveness
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Business Analysis and Evaluation
- Collaboratively work the investment team to measure portfolio impacts of Edtech Startup companies.
- Develop evaluation models that fit the objectives and missions of projects
Develop impact resources and deliver impact reporting
- Assist in the creation of program impact documents and reports for senior leadership and external stakeholders.
- Contribute to the development of impact measures and indicators
- Working closely with colleagues across different teams in developing and implementing effective monitoring and evaluation frameworks to demonstrate our impact, including clearly defined and measurable outcomes.
- Share and champion our impact learning with internal and external stakeholders.
Qualifications
Key Skills
- Evaluation and impact measurement experience, as well as the ability to define meaningful and appropriate measures, indicators, impact benchmarks, interpret results, and communicate your findings.
- Vast in both qualitative and quantitative approaches to monitoring and evaluation and ability to conduct analysis such as counterfactual analysis, contribution and attribution analysis, comparative analysis, cohort analysis and impact grid.
- An effective team player with a variety of attributes such as the ability to foster and maintain effective relationships with a variety of internal and external stakeholders
- Excellent IT literacy, including the ability to use data analysis software (Stata, Nvivo12, Tableau, Power BI, Excel-Advanced) to analyze and interpret data and clearly communicate the findings to a variety of audiences.
- A proactive and flexible approach with the ability to work independently and act on initiative where appropriate
- Excellent planning and project management skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.