Mara Online
- Kenya Intern
Mara
Foundation Overview: Mara Foundation is Mara Group’s social enterprise that focuses
on emerging African entrepreneurs. It works to create sustainable economic and
business development opportunities for young business owners through various
initiatives.
The
Foundation is active in a number of countries across Africa, including Uganda,
Tanzania, Nigeria and Kenya.
Mara
Foundation’s mission is to provide comprehensive support services including
mentorship,
funding and business training to African entrepreneurs.
funding and business training to African entrepreneurs.
Mara Foundation believes that these support services will play a crucial role in transforming business ideas into reality. These businesses will, in turn, create jobs for other Africans and help build an SME sector that can genuinely contribute to the development of both the local and pan-African economies.
Mara
Online Overview: Mara Online seeks to empower young people in Africa by
providing a complementary suite of technology products tailored to their needs.
One of these products is Mara Mentor, a Mara Foundation initiative that is a
social network with a purpose – creating a social impact.
Mara
Online is seeking to build a technology ecosystem to tap into Africa
communications.
There are more than 650 million mobile phone subscribers and a large population of youth looking for new ways to communicate, faster and cheaper.
About
the position: We are looking for a tech savvy individual who is ready and
willing to lead, coordinate, promote, and execute unique events, forums &
initiatives that creatively integrate the Mara Mentor platform into various
universities in Kenya.
The
Mara Foundation is executing an exciting Mara Mentor recruitment drive in 10
top tier campuses across Nairobi and major cities in Kenya to help showcase how
Mara Mentor is revolutionising the SME landscape in Kenya.
The successful candidate will help develop and implement campus events that facilitate personalised user experiences with the Mara Mentor app.
This exciting 3 months opportunity will equip the successful candidate with:
- Exciting
weekly tasks
- Leadership
skills
- Networking
opportunities
- The
provision of a weekly allowance & airtime with the possibility of earning
bonuses on output
- The
possibility of joining Mara Online as a Youth Representative based on your
overall performance
Qualifications, skills and requirements
The
successful candidate should ideally:
- Be
well spoken, congenial, articulate and comfortable talking to new people
and engaging them in genuine conversations and experiences.
- Be
active on a variety of social media channels preferably having a large
social media following and owns a laptop
- Have
recently graduated from campus preferably with qualifications in Business
Studies, Marketing, Public Relations or Education.
- Be
aware of the trends in small and medium enterprise development in Kenya
- Have
the ability to coordinate an on-the-ground team (Mara Ambassadors) that’ll
be responsible for maintaining consistent visibility of the Foundation's
presence on campus via print marketing collateral, ie: flyers and posters.
- Collate
feedback from the Mara Ambassadors in the form of data sheets that will be
used to analyze campaign effectiveness and outreach
- Be
able to maintain a flexible schedule and be willing to work evenings and
weekends based on potential activations and events
- Have
previous event planning experience, the capacity to curate great ideas and
the determination and connections to make awesome events happen
- Have
in mind that downloading the app and signing up is not enough. We want
students using the app together, sharing their experiences, interact &
engage with other users, learn and have fun! This can ideally happen in
campus events, student club sessions, hang-outs, or even study-sessions.
There are a myriad of possibilities while making the entire user
experience fun and engaging.
- Execute
any other task that may be assigned to you.
Interested candidates should apply by emailing a CV and a
covering letter explaining their interest in the position and what they could
bring to it to debos@mara.com.
Please
specify the job title “Intern Mara Online - Kenya” in the email subject.
Only
complete applications will be considered.
Only
successful applicants will be contacted.