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Generation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2015

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Education • Non-profit • Social Impact

Generation is a mission driven non-profit focused on training the next generation of diverse leaders in the progressive, civic, and social impact data community. They offer a variety of online and in-person training programs tailored to equip students with essential skills in data visualization, data engineering, and progressive data analysis. Their initiatives aim to empower individuals from marginalized communities and enhance their capabilities to impact democratic processes and social movements through data literacy.

📋 Description

• Lead market scoping and feasibility analysis for potential new Generation geographies in Africa, with an initial focus on Ethiopia, Nigeria, and South Africa • Map labour market conditions, employer landscapes, training ecosystems, regulatory environments, and competitive dynamics in priority markets • Develop structured opportunity assessments and investment cases to inform go/no-go decisions by regional and global leadership • Coordinate with relevant global functions (Program Delivery Support, Data & Impact, Digital) and existing country teams to contextualise Generation's model for new market entry • Support handover of validated expansion plans to country or regional operating teams for implementation • Identify and evaluate opportunities for Generation to expand its programme portfolio into new sectors or professions in Africa (beyond current GBS/digital focus) • Conduct landscape analysis of employer demand, learner supply, salary benchmarks, AI resilience, training feasibility, placement potential and career pathways for candidate new programmes • Develop programme concept notes and pilot designs in collaboration with PDS and country teams • Lead employer outreach and engagement to validate hiring demand, role requirements, and employer pain points, ensuring these insights inform programme design, secure employer commitments for pilot hiring, and build a strong pipeline of job opportunities. • Collaborate with our Employer Partnerships teams on these efforts. • Track and synthesise emerging sector trends across Africa (e.g., healthcare, construction, green economy, logistics) to surface high-potential opportunities • Design and test new commercial and earned revenue models to reduce Generation Africa's donor dependency, including employer cost-sharing arrangements, fee-for-service models, and social enterprise structures • Conduct stakeholder research with employers, training partners, and sector bodies to validate willingness-to-pay assumptions and model parameters • Develop model blueprints, pilot frameworks, and business cases for regional and global leadership review • Lead the design, development, and launch of an employer-funded BPO/ITO manager upskilling program in partnership with the Employer Partnerships and Curriculum & Instruction teams. • Support key existing revenue-generating pilots, namely the Digital Talent Hub and the Kenya Garment Hub, which each seek to employ Generation alumni to directly meet customer/client needs and create revenue for Generation while providing apprenticeship to alumni. • For each, you would help to refine its commercial model, document learnings, and extract transferable insights for other markets. • Support the design and piloting of a sector skilling ecosystem model to coordinate skilling providers and crowd in employer, donor, and government funding • Map key ecosystem actors (employers, government bodies, sector associations, training providers, development partners) in priority sectors • Develop stakeholder engagement strategies and partnership frameworks to convene and align ecosystem participants around Generation's approach • Maintain a living pipeline of growth opportunities (new countries, new sectors, new revenue models), updated regularly and accessible to regional and global leadership • Produce high-quality analysis, briefings, and presentations for internal decision-making and, where relevant, funder reporting.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required in a relevant field (e.g., business, economics, international development, social sciences, public policy) • 4–8 years of relevant professional experience in strategy, management consulting, business development, programme design, market entry, or a closely related field • Demonstrated ability to assess new markets, sectors, or opportunities, and translate analysis into clear recommendations for senior decision‑makers • Experience designing, testing, or supporting new programmes, pilots, products, or business models, particularly in settings with ambiguity and limited precedent • Strong commercial and financial intuition, with the ability to reason clearly about revenue models, sustainability, incentives, and cost structures (deep finance expertise not required) • Proven ability to engage credibly with diverse stakeholders across public / private / social sector and influence without formal authority • Experience working in or across Sub-Saharan African markets (e.g., Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana)

🏖️ Benefits

• 12-month fixed-term contract, renewable subject to performance and funding, with strong potential for extension and long-term growth