Several Community Manager Job Opportunities – Innovation Village
Job Title: Community Managers – Hoima, Mbarara, Gulu, Jinja, Mbale Several Job Placements
Organisation: Innovation Village
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
The Innovation Village is a destination entrepreneurs call home. We believe that every idea that could transform society should be given an opportunity to see what that idea could become. Have you ever considered a career working with startups? Startup culture is high energy, your ticket to being a problem solver, attracts the best minds around and lets you fast-track your career with high-growth teams. Startup culture gives you the flexibility to explore emerging technologies and test your limits along the way.
Job Summary: The Community Managers champions our mission to build a community of high growth startups while connecting them to the network, resources, and community they need to scale. You are responsible for operational excellence and member experience, and extending our services to the community within and beyond our walls.
You’ll be tasked with continually meeting our members needs, understanding your local market, and delivering on a quality hospitality experience for our members and anyone who walks through our doors. This position is located outside Kampala in our regional offices.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Membership
- Ensure a gracious arrival experience for all members, prospective members and stakeholders.
- Create a high quality, curated member environment identifying and executing opportunities to connect members with each other while proactively spotting opportunities for potential community involvement to support our members.
- Oversee & maximize community events ensuring goals are met and event spaces are optimised and occupied to the highest degree member enrichment events and revenue generating opportunities
- Manage the facility to Innovation Village 5-star operational and hospitality standards
- Support the planning and supervision of educational, professional and personal development events based on members’ needs and requests
Ecosystem Development
- Build and maintain a network of local partner organizations in line with membership needs.
- Build a strong environment including connecting founders to each other, and the partners they need
- Qualify all new members applying to the community
- Oversee regular programming & events to make sure we’re creating a valuable experience for members
- Build the Innovation Village reputation through outreach and business development
Sales & Operations
- Ensure the Campus is running smoothly from an operations & process perspective
- Oversight and responsibility including manage member turn-over
- Take an active role in sales including tours, accounts and targeted goals
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- Passionate about building things (teams, companies, people)
- A connector and relationship-builder – you’re the person who knows everyone
- Willing to get your hands dirty – we’re a small but mighty team and need people with the ability to roll up their sleeves and work side-by-side with their team to get it done
- Great at multi-tasking and prioritising
- Kaizen! (constantly improving yourself and your peers)
General
- You are bold, appreciate direct and open conversation and collaborate freely with your supervisor
- You value freedom, actively drive your work and department and enjoy taking initiative to suggest and won improvement and change projects
- You easily fit into a youthful and informal work culture
- You are collaborative and know to listen to other’s point of view finding common ground.
How to Apply:
All candidates who wish to join us in the aforementioned capacity should apply online at the link below.
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