Call for Applications for the Jasiri Talent Investor Cohort 4

Job Description

About Jasiri Jasiri invests in, nurtures, and empowers entrepreneurs who benefit society and attack poverty by creating high-impact businesses, creating new markets on the African continent. Jasiri believes that entrepreneurial teams are at the heart of new venture creation. Jasiri provides the entrepreneur with access to a diverse group of potential co-founders. Jasiri supports new ventures from idea generation to venture creation and takes a long-term approach to developing exceptional, responsible entrepreneurs on the African continent.

Jasiri High-Impact Entrepreneurship Program, supported by the Allan & Gill Gray Philanthropies (AGGP), selects, guides, and invests in ambitious and highly driven aspiring entrepreneurs. Our Fellows are expected to build enterprises that will unlock new markets while solving the most pressing challenges of our time.

Jasiri is looking for young individuals from Ethiopia, Kenya and Rwanda to join Cohort 4 of the Jasiri Talent Investor Program.

Interested applicants will go through a rigorous competency-based selection process, after which finalists (referred to as Jasiri Fellows) join the Jasiri Talent Investor — a fully-funded 13 months program that will guide Jasiri Fellows from idea generation, validation, prototyping, market entry to venture creation. The Talent Investor will introduce Jasiri Fellows to equally ambitious co-founders and will support them on an individual, team, and business level.

Since its inception in December 2020, Jasiri Fellows in the program have created twenty five (25) ventures which span a wide range of industries such as agriculture, healthcare, affordable housing, and finTech.

The program ensures that Jasiri Fellows receive world class entrepreneurship development support, coaching and business advisory to increase their chances of achieving their entrepreneurial aspirations.

Jasiri CEO Anthony Farr notes, “Jasiri is not just a program but an invitation to a mission toward transforming Africa. We are all about value driven entrepreneurship and long-term approaches to growing high-impact and life-changing enterprises. Jasiri is a Swahili word meaning brave! In a world where we need more courage, we invite young brave individuals to join our program and create ventures that address the common good”. 

Learn more at jasiri.org.

Location:  hybrid(remote, 3 months mandatory residential program in Rwanda). 

Job Requirement

Ideal candidate  

• You are driven and committed to building an innovative high-growth venture from scratch.

• You have a demonstrable history of achievement and entrepreneurial action, which means:

  • You are able to identify opportunities and gaps in a sector of interest.

  • You have a history of achievement and evidence of impact wherever you have focused your attention.

• You have significant insights and expertise in a field or industry.

• You are a team player and are excited to meet equally ambitious co-founders.

• You are a citizen of Ethiopia, Kenya, or Rwanda residing in the respective country or diaspora.

• You commit to fully and actively participate in the Talent Investor Program for 14 months including 3 months Residential Intensive in Rwanda.

• Women entrepreneurs are highly encouraged to apply.
• Candidates living in the diaspora are also encouraged to apply.
• The Jasiri Talent Investor program includes a mandatory 3-months residential intensive in Bugesera, Rwanda.

Selection Process:

• Step 1: Complete and submit your application
  • Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis
    
• Step 2: Complete the entrepreneurial intentions assessment within 7 days.
  
  • Successful applicants will move to the next stage i.e receive an innovation scenario assessment link.
• Step 3: Complete the innovation scenario assessment and submit a pitch video.
  • Successful applicants will move to the next stage i.e receive a Psychometric test link.
• Step 4: Take the JASIRI Psychometric Test.
  • Successful applicants who will make it through the Psychometric Test will move to the next stage i.e Selection Conference.
• Step 5: Attend the Selection Conference
• Final Step: Announcement of the selected Fellows.
  • Selected candidates shall be notified of their admission into the program after the Selection Conference