The Kaizen Company is an incubator for innovative, scalable solutions that address emerging market challenges and opportunities. Our proven solutions catalyze locally-driven development and spur sustainable entrepreneurship and investments. We leverage existing knowledge, new technologies, local peer networks, and innovative business models to support local reforms that are sustained through market forces.
Since our inception, we have provided support to more than 200 government, private-sector, and non-profit organizations in emerging markets worldwide. We have created solutions that achieve outcomes across a broad range of sectors including education, health, finance, agriculture, governance, economic growth, energy and environment, and water.
Scope and Objectives:
Kaizen is seeking regional long-term experts to manage innovation call preparation and administration as well as provide business development services to innovators for the forthcoming Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) East Africa Regional project.
The overall objective (impact) of the WE4F programme is to increase food production and income of smallholder farmers through and a more sustainable use of water and energy in food production. The WE4F program expects the following outputs to be achieved through the request services in the present assignment:
- Business capacities of innovators (SMEs) that offer innovative solutions (technological, digital, financial, etc. new to a context) for up-scaling climate friendly, energy and/or water efficient innovations are improved through financial and technical assistance,
- Access to appropriate financing options for climate friendly, energy and/or water efficient innovations is improved and new, suitable financing mechanisms for end user of innovations are identified.
Innovation calls cover the entire East Africa region. In these calls, eligible SME innovations are chosen to be further supported in the process. The Innovation Call Expert will conceptualize, prepare, promote and manage the innovation calls.
Tasks:
- Design, preparing and managing all procedures for the innovation calls of WE4F in E. Africa
- Prepare and manage all contracts with selected innovators form the calls
- Support team leader in backstopping on business development and investment readiness of SMEs
- Support team leader on technical support and advice on the energy – water – food nexus
Qualifications:
- General qualification: Bachelor’s degree in social or technical sciences related to water, energy and/or agriculture
- Language skills: English C1
- Professional experience (5 years) in implementing development cooperation projects in energy or water in agriculture
- Specific qualification: Good knowledge in digital/communication technologies (5 years) and work experiences in preparing and running innovation calls in the region (5 years) as well as in implementing innovation calls targeting SMEs in the region (5 years)
- Regional experience/Knowledge of the region: Work experience (10 years) in one or more countries of the region
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