The Role
Komaza’s Business Operations department is serving as an internal consulting function for short-term and/or high-technical work and projects. This department is doing everything from writing technical handbooks and redesigning department’s organizational structures and strategy. BizOps is working across the entire organization to coordinate cross-functional efforts, as well as dig in deep to a specific department’s operations, to serve the strategic and operational needs of the fast-growing company.
The Business Operations Fellow must always be answering the question, “How can I improve this system?”, “How can I fix this process?”, “What do we need to make this work?”. The fellow will always be on his/her toes, quick to find creative and cost effective solutions to a specific challenges.
The Business Operations Fellow must always be answering the question, “How can I improve this system?”, “How can I fix this process?”, “What do we need to make this work?”. The fellow will always be on his/her toes, quick to find creative and cost effective solutions to a specific challenges.
This is a short term, 3 to 6 months role. A stipend to cater for your personal needs and accommodation will be provided.
As the Business Operations Fellow, a typical day might include:
- Building a financial model from scratch
- Visiting the field to follow a technical expert and document his/her every move then writing an SOP about it
- Planning the logistics operations for a field based project
- Creating a template for documenting project scope, timeline, budget and deliverable… then being asked to make it half as long and twice as easy to use
- Surfing the internet to see what resources already exist for a solution to a challenge, then taking it, scraping most of it and building it better
This opportunity might be for you, if
- You love building puzzles and solving riddles
- You love understanding an operational challenge and coming up with a sustainable solution
- You get bored doing the same thing day after day
- You love analyzing data in Excel and providing meaningful answers from the information
- You love producing high-quality polished work no matter the audience or context of the work
How to get this opportunity:
In order to land this awesome opportunity you will need to love helping and growing people. A Bachelor’s degree in any related field from a prestigious university will definitely be helpful. If you want to move to sunny Kilifi on the Kenyan coast, do something meaningful which will have huge impact on the local communities, are not afraid of a complex and tough job, and want to grow professionally and personally then please apply for this role.
HOW TO APPLY:
Please follow this LINK to apply. Closing date is 31st August 2016.
