NLHead of East Asia Labour Mobility and Venture Builder
Africa Jobs FundRemote
Global health and wellbeingDevelopment finance and aid policyFinanceManagement
Why this is on the board
A skilled job in Japan or South Korea often earns an African worker many times what they could earn at home. In this role you place no one yourself: you decide which founders and companies get money from the fund, and every good choice becomes a company that brings people into such work year after year — though it has not yet been shown how that approach compares with other ways of fighting poverty.
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About the role
Build and fund companies moving African workers into skilled jobs across Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and China through government labour schemes. - Identify viable labour corridors and sectors; engage recruiters, employers, and operators to map opportunities and bottlenecks. - Source and recruit founders to build mobility companies; assess candidates and persuade exceptional operators to partner with the fund. - Assess investments, develop cost-effectiveness analyses, and structure deals (equ…
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