Innovations Coordinator – COVID-19 at Aga Khan Foundation

About the Project
The AKDN East Africa COVID-19 Response Project will provide rapid response funds to various local Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) to enable them to reach their most vulnerable constituents with support based on their emerging needs arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will also provide a platform, comprising Human Centered Design workshops, flexible grants, and mentorship, to support young entrepreneurs to design innovative business solutions that will meet the medium to short term needs of the community emerging from the pandemic. The 2.5year project will be implemented in Central and West Nile (Arua) regions of Uganda

Position Description
The Innovations Coordinator will lead Pillar 3 under the AKDN East Africa COVID-19 Response Program –that aims to provide a platform to young innovators to design innovative business solutions that will meet the medium to short term needs of the community emerging from the pandemic. The competitive platform will comprise Human Centred Design workshops, mentorship, and flexible funds to support the roll out of the selected innovations.

Principle responsibilities

• • Develop workplans and implement activities to roll out a competitive platform to attract young innovators to design solutions to challenges in Health, Education and Entrepreneurship for young people.
  • Lead a competitive and transparent process to select young innovators and provide funding to the most promising innovations
  • Work closely with the innovators to ensure proper utilization of the funds for the innovations as planned and track progress
  • Engage a team of experienced mentors to provide support to the young innovators
  • Implement a targeted marketing and publicity campaign to attract innovators, showcase the innovations and attract other stakeholders and players in the space to participate
  • Plan and deliver innovative events including HCD workshops, awards events etc.
  • Build relationships with the successful innovators and support the development of their innovations on a regular basis, nurturing a community of practice for the young innovators including other strategic stakeholders in the Entrepreneurship space

The requirements

Required Experience and Skills

• Degree in Business, Entrepreneurship or other relevant field
• Experience in implementing Entrepreneurship or Youth Innovation programs is required
• Good knowledge and understanding of the youth entrepreneurship space, opportunities and players is required 
• Experience with the Human Centered Design methodology will be an added advantage
• Dynamic, entrepreneurial and innovation/solutions driven mind-set
• Strong inter-personal skills and working collaboratively with internal teams and project and non-project partners
• Strong communication skills, written and oral, and fluency in English
• Experience with on-line or remote events will be an added advantage
• Good ICT skills

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