Chief of Staff

Responsibilities:

Executive Leverage and Strategic Support: 

• Act as a force multiplier for the CEO by managing priorities, follow-through, and decision flow.
  
• Prepare daily and weekly executive briefings covering priorities, risks, deadlines, and opportunities.
  
• Convert CEO ideas into structured action plans, owners, and timelines.
  
• Ensure the CEO’s time is focused on fundraising, partnerships, growth, and strategic leadership.

Cross-Functional Execution:

• Drive execution of key company initiatives across operations, partnerships, technology, and project delivery.
  
• Coordinate teams to ensure milestones are met on time and blockers are escalated quickly.
  
• Lead weekly business reviews and progress tracking meetings.

Special Projects:

• Own high-priority CEO initiatives such as market expansion, fundraising readiness, new partnerships, or product launches.
  
• Conduct research, build business cases, and recommend execution strategies.

Internal Communications and Accountability:

• Ensure clear communication of priorities across leadership and teams.
  
• Track commitments made in meetings and enforce follow-up.
  
• Build reporting systems, dashboards, and accountability cadences.

Stakeholder Management:

• Support preparation for investor, donor, board, government, and strategic partner meetings.
  
• Draft briefing notes, presentations, memos, and follow-up summaries.

Organizational Effectiveness:

• Identify inefficiencies and implement systems, processes, and automation.
  
• Help build a high-performance culture centered on ownership, speed, and transparency.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Public Policy, Finance, Management, or related field. MBA is a plus.
  
• 5+ years of experience in consulting, strategy, operations, startups, venture building, development finance, or executive support.
  
• Exceptional project management and execution discipline.
  
• Strong analytical thinking and business judgment.
  
• Excellent writing, presentation, and communication skills.
  
• Ability to manage confidential information with discretion.
  
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, founder-led environment.
• You are highly organized, commercially minded, politically aware, and relentlessly execution-focused.
• You can move from boardroom strategy to operational detail in the same hour.
• You anticipate needs, reduce chaos, and make leaders more effective.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in startups, tech platforms, donor ecosystems, ESG, philanthropy, or African development sectors.
  
• Experience working directly with founders, CEOs, or senior executives.
  
• Familiarity with dashboards, CRMs, productivity systems, and data tools.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs):

• CEO time leverage and priority completion rate
  
• Strategic initiatives delivered on time
  
• Cross-functional project execution success
  
• Decision-to-execution speed
  
• Internal accountability scorecards completed
  
• Stakeholder meeting readiness and follow-through
• Process improvements implemented

What We Offer:

• Culture: Join a mission-driven organization committed to measurable impact across Africa.
  
• Growth: Opportunities for continuous learning, development, and career progression.
  
• Impact: You will play a direct role in ensuring projects achieve intended outcomes and beneficiaries receive meaningful value.
  
• Compensation: Competitive salary and benefits package in a collaborative and purpose-driven environment.