NLHead of North America Labour Mobility and Venture Builder
Africa Jobs FundRemote
Global health and wellbeingDevelopment finance and aid policyManagementFinance
Why this is on the board
A job in Canada or the US often earns an African worker several times what the same work pays at home, but the route through employer visas is complicated and few companies organise it. In this role you choose which founders get funding and help build those companies. Every company that takes off can place hundreds of people a year instead of one.
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About the role
Build and fund companies moving African workers into high-income jobs in Canada and the US through employer-sponsored immigration routes. - Find founders and build companies placing African workers with North American employers via temporary visas and economic immigration pathways. - Map market opportunities across Canadian provinces and US sectors; assess investments and structure deals with cost-effectiveness analyses. - Support portfolio companies from inception through scaling: secure emp…
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