CAMME will be housed at Strathmore. Some of the facilitators of CAMME include the Wharton Business School, the Clinton Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

They are currently seeking:

• Director of Education and Business Consulting
• Managing Director
• Project Manager

Please send CVs to George Mogambi at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Role description – Director of Education and Business Consulting, Center for African Mid-Market Expansion (CAMME)
Role title: Director of Education and Business Consulting
Geography: Based 75-85% in Nairobi, Kenya, and East Africa and 15-25% travel within Africa and globally

Reports to: Managing Director, Center for African Mid-Market Expansion

CONTEXT OF THE OPPORTUNITY - A PLATFORM TO SCALE UP MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES IN EAST AFRICA
The vision of the Excelsior Firm, a global capital advisory company, is to accelerate business and infrastructure growth in Africa and drive socio-economic impact. We are building an innovative center focused on scaling up small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), beginning in East Africa, and then expanding across Africa and other emerging markets. The objective of the Center for African Mid-Market Expansion (CAMME) is to utilize market-based solutions and private-public partnerships to facilitate inclusive economic growth, by which we mean: job creation for low and middle-income families, improved access to essential goods and services, environmental sustainability, and support for young and women entrepreneurs. The 5 key activities of CAMME will include: 1) Leadership and advanced business education to enhance the acumen of African executives; 2) Business consulting services to streamline operations and improve competitiveness; 3) Capital advisory services to facilitate access to smart financing; 4) Partnership formation between local and international companies to create new markets, share resources and address technical skill gaps; 5) Research and knowledge building to disseminate findings, expand the middle market and increase exits for principal investors.

Our initial focus is on East African technology-enabled enterprises due to the strong continuing growth in the region, the ability for ICT infrastructure to facilitate progress across industries, and the role of entrepreneurs in not only creating economic growth but also in generating a substantial portion of jobs in developing countries. Over the past year we have conducted rigorous analyses and interviewed over 250 interviews stakeholders in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. These included entrepreneurs, principal investors, governments, multi-lateral institutions and private sector leaders. Our published work identified the following gaps that should be addressed in order to successfully scale up African businesses: 1) Entrepreneurial management skills & mentorship; 2) Organizational competitiveness & efficiency; 3) Access to smart capital limited by inflexible terms and collateral-based financing; 4) Access to new markets and global partnerships; 5) Lack of exits for principal investors. Furthermore, the gap in services supporting medium-sized enterprises is most prominent, so CAMME will be primarily focused supporting these companies.

To address these needs, the Excelsior Firm has assembled a high caliber set of individuals and partnerships including a top 10 U.S. business school and Strathmore Business School in Kenya. Excelsior is at the knowledge forefront of entrepreneurship and business development in Africa, leading the way with seminal publications for the World Bank, DFID, and Hivos on Transforming the ICTSector by Creating a Business Engine for SMEs. Current efforts are aimed at finalizing discussions with potential partners in East Africa including the Kenyan ICT board, the Kenya Private Sector Alliance, and UNDP AMSCO. To implement these interventions, CAMME will be co-located at Strathmore, a top African business school. The delivery staff complement will include 10-15 individuals for a platform requiring an investment of USD 5 million for the first 24 months to support the design phase and pilot phases. The platform will be self-sustaining within 4 years. Impact will include thousands of skilled jobs and millions in GDP impact for the East Africa region, and greater access to markets, finance, technology, and talent for the East African companies and their US and global partners.
Over the next few weeks, we aim to complete the final stages of stakeholder alignment, including deal structures for private investors. We will also establish a global Board of Directors.
* * *
The Excelsior Firm and its partners are committed to the vision of scaling up businesses and infrastructure across Africa in order to transform the Continent through inclusive growth and sustainable socio-economic impact – This is our time.

What CAMME looks like
The primary physical location of the innovation center will be located in Kenya, to take advantage of existing infrastructure and networks. The delivery staff will be a combination of Excelsior, global and local partner university personnel and students. We expect a total staff of 7-10 individuals. We will drive to creating a self-sustaining institution by year four, generating fees from management advisory, research, and educational services to individuals and companies, as well as capital advisory and market access services. We will implement the appropriate management tools, including a rigorous monitoring and evaluation scheme reflecting the key goals of greater economic impact, job creation, sustainability of businesses, and promoting women entrepreneurs. In addition, we will apply a rigorous risk management system that addresses threats such as untested service offerings in the region, variance in the landscape analysis, and potential human capital obstacles.
CAMME itself will be structured as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in the United States and will provide the core offerings of Education & Research and Business Consulting services to medium size businesses1 across East Africa. The most competitive companies within CAMME would then be eligible for the additional market-based offerings of Capital Advisory & Partnership Formation provided by Excelsior Firm, with full cost, risk, and profit to the Excelsior Firm. The overall structure:

• Education & Research and Business Consulting services will be offered directly by CAMME staff, which specific modules delivered by our academic partners.
• Capital Advisory, Partnership Formation, and Investment Exit access service lines will be provided on an outsourced, closely coordinated basis by the Excelsior team.
• The Program Management Office (PMO) which reports into the Managing Director, will be provided by the Excelsior Firm. This high-execution team will provide the Managing Director and CAMME with the necessary bandwidth in the first two years to design programming and operating protocols, drive strategic initiatives and provide any additional support as the CAMME team is being recruiting and developed. This team will also provide continuity with knowledge and relationships from the initial opportunity assessment and business plan design phases.

DESCRIPTION OF YOUR ROLE AS DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION AND BUSINESS CONSULTING
As the Director of Education and Business Consulting at CAMME, your primary goals are facilitating rapid growth of East African mid-sized companies, and developing the next round of business executives and entrepreneurs. To achieve this, you will have to recruit and develop your team of 2-3 staff members, source and maintain client relationships across the Education Programming, Research, and Business Consulting platforms, manage your department’s budget, and effectively utilize the Managing Director and the Board of Directors to provide critical oversight and access to relationships and resources.
You will report into the Managing Director of CAMME, who is ultimately responsible for the success of the center.
The Director of Education and Business Consulting will drive the first two components of the CAMME offering - Education and Research, and Business Consulting. Reporting into this role:

• The Education Services Manager will design the educational and research offerings of CAMME and coordinate the delivery of these services with the core education partners of CAMME.
• The Business Consulting Manager will design and manage the Business Consulting offerings as well as manage specific Consulting projects for our enterprise clients. This manager will be assisted by a Consulting Associate staffer and outside consultants (if necessary from a demand and content requirements standpoint). You will be expected to play a “senior partner” role on consulting engagements and play an active role in directing the highest priority engagements.

You will work alongside by two other managers – the Chief Administrative Officer, and the Director of Capital Advisory and Partnership – as well as the Program Management Office.

• The Chief Administrative Officer will ensure the execution of the operations backbone of CAMME, and also serve the primary deputy to the Managing Director. Responsibilities that will fall under this office include financial, legal, risk management and compliance, marketing, IT, and general administration functions. Some of these functions will be provided directly the CAO and the team, while others will be outsources (e.g., legal, IT).
• The Director of Capital Advisory and Partnership will be provided by the Excelsior Firm, but will report into the Office of the Managing Director. This is a market facing function; therefore the structure of this role is guided by a public-private partnership approach, with Excelsior providing the private component on a contractual and rigorously monitored basis.
• The Program Management Office, as mentioned previously, will be provided by the Excelsior Firm on a contractual basis for 24 months to design and implementation of overall project architecture, operate all pilot offerings and processes, assist in recruiting and developing incoming staff, drive communications to external stakeholders and funders, and develop the initial knowledge base and research of CAMME. Ultimately, this office will transition all of these functions over to the full time CAMME staff within the 24 month period and shut down.

Lastly, as you continue to build out your own business network in East Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, we expect that you will be establishing and maintaining strong relationships that could convert into business opportunities for CAMME and its client entrepreneurs and organizations, with the goal of achieving positive socio-economic impact in Africa.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE
Achieving the ambitious vision of CAMME will require assembling a world-class team. To ensure that we have identified the right talented individuals, we will focus on several qualifications:

• Distinctive academic qualifications (e.g., MBA, JDs) from world-class universities
• Professional experience in top-tier consulting environments of at least 4 years, preference for a mix of experience working with large corporates and institutions and with entrepreneurs
• Deep industry and functional background, for example possessing one or more knowledge spikes in the following areas
  • Industry backgrounds: Financial Services, Health Care, Telecommunications, Industrials, Travel and Leisure
  • Functional Expertise: Strategy, Marketing, Operations, Organizational Behavior and Redesign
• Prior experience managing and recruiting a team of professionals
• Experience and familiarity with implementing initiatives in emerging markets environments, as well as sensitivity to different cultural and organizational environments
• Intrinsics
  • Ability to operate independently and professionally in senior stakeholder interactions (e.g., Government ministers, multi-national senior executives, CAMME board members) and these relationships on a peer basis
  • Tenacious in meeting deadlines, with a strong sense of urgency and good self-management discipline
  • Ability to work in a team-based environment and perform in a start-up atmosphere
  • Ability to present information in an insightful and structured manner in written and oral formats
  • Strong quantitative and qualitative analytics

YOUR STATUS WITH CAMME
The initial term of the relationship with CAMME will be for one year, and will be renewed upon mutual agreement between you and the CAMME board.

COMPENSATION
Compensation will be competitive with mid-tenure consulting professionals within the Sub-Saharan Africa market. In addition, you may be eligible for two additional forms of compensation:
Benefits – CAMME will provide health and retirement benefits benchmarked against similar multi-national organizations in Africa.

Discretionary bonus – On discretion of the Board of Directors, you will be eligible for a bonus based on project impact, utilization, and quality of CAMME building efforts. Bonuses will be awarded following the completion of one year with CAMME or at the end of the first full fiscal year.

CONTACT
For more information or to express interest, please contact our team at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , title the subject as: “Role: Director of Education and Business Consulting” and provide your CV/resume, a one page description of why you are best suited for the role, and three references.

Role description – Managing Director, Center for African Mid-Market Expansion (CAMME)
Role title: Managing Director of the Center for African Mid-Market Expansion
Geography: Based 75% in Nairobi, Kenya, and East Africa and 25% travel within Africa and globally
Reports to: Board of Directors, Center for African Mid-Market Expansion
Timing: Q1 2012

CONTEXT OF THE OPPORTUNITY - A PLATFORM TO SCALE UP MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES IN EAST AFRICA
The vision of the Excelsior Firm, a global capital advisory company, is to accelerate business and infrastructure growth in Africa and drive socio-economic impact. We are building an innovative center focused on scaling up small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), beginning in East Africa, and then expanding across Africa and other emerging markets. The objective of the Center for African Mid-Market Expansion (CAMME) is to utilize market-based solutions and private-public partnerships to facilitate inclusive economic growth, by which we mean: job creation for low and middle-income families, improved access to essential goods and services, environmental sustainability, and support for young and women entrepreneurs. The 5 key activities of CAMME will include: 1) Leadership and advanced business education to enhance the acumen of African executives; 2) Business consulting services to streamline operations and improve competitiveness; 3) Capital advisory services to facilitate access to smart financing; 4) Partnership formation between local and international companies to create new markets, share resources and address technical skill gaps; 5) Research and knowledge building to disseminate findings, expand the middle market and increase exits for principal investors.
Our initial focus is on East African technology-enabled enterprises due to the strong continuing growth in the region, the ability for ICT infrastructure to facilitate progress across industries, and the role of entrepreneurs in not only creating economic growth but also in generating a substantial portion of jobs in developing countries. Over the past year we have conducted rigorous analyses and interviewed over 250 interviews stakeholders in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. These included entrepreneurs, principal investors, governments, multi-lateral institutions and private sector leaders. Our published work identified the following gaps that should be addressed in order to successfully scale up African businesses: 1) Entrepreneurial management skills & mentorship; 2) Organizational competitiveness & efficiency; 3) Access to smart capital limited by inflexible terms and collateral-based financing; 4) Access to new markets and global partnerships; 5) Lack of exits for principal investors. Furthermore, the gap in services supporting medium-sized enterprises is most prominent, so CAMME will be primarily focused supporting these companies.

To address these needs, the Excelsior Firm has assembled a high caliber set of individuals and partnerships including a top 10 US business school and Strathmore Business School in Kenya. Excelsior is at the knowledge forefront of entrepreneurship and business development in Africa, leading the way with seminal publications for the World Bank, DFID, and Hivos on Transforming the ICT Sector byCreating a Business Engine for SMEs. Current efforts are aimed at finalizing discussions with potential partners in East Africa including the Kenyan ICT board, the Kenya Private Sector Alliance, and UNDP AMSCO. To implement these interventions, CAMME will be co-located at Strathmore, a top African business school. The delivery staff complement will include 10-15 individuals for a platform requiring an investment of USD 5 million for the first 24 months to support the design phase and pilot phases. The platform will be self-sustaining within 4 years. Impact will include thousands of skilled jobs and millions in GDP impact for the East Africa region, and greater access to markets, finance, technology, and talent for the East African companies and their US and global partners.
Over the next few weeks, we aim to complete the final stages of stakeholder alignment, including deal structures for private investors. We will also establish a global Board of Directors.
* * *
The Excelsior Firm and its partners are committed to the vision of scaling up businesses and infrastructure across Africa in order to transform the Continent through inclusive growth and sustainable socio-economic impact – This is our time.

What CAMME looks like
The primary physical location of the innovation center will be located in Kenya, to take advantage of existing infrastructure and networks. The delivery staff will be a combination of Excelsior, global and local partner university personnel and students. We expect a total staff of 7-10 individuals. We will drive to creating a self-sustaining institution by year four, generating fees from management advisory, research, and educational services to individuals and companies, as well as capital advisory and market access services. We will implement the appropriate management tools, including a rigorous monitoring and evaluation scheme reflecting the key goals of greater economic impact, job creation, sustainability of businesses, and promoting women entrepreneurs. In addition, we will apply a rigorous risk management system that addresses threats such as untested service offerings in the region, variance in the landscape analysis, and potential human capital obstacles.

CAMME itself will be structured as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in the United States and will provide the core offerings of Education & Research and Business Consulting services to medium size businesses1 across East Africa. The most competitive companies within CAMME would then be eligible for the additional market-based offerings of Capital Advisory & Partnership Formation provided by Excelsior Firm, with full cost, risk, and profit to the Excelsior Firm. The overall structure:

• Education & Research and Business Consulting services will be offered directly by CAMME staff, which specific modules delivered by our academic partners.
• Capital Advisory, Partnership Formation, and Investment Exit access service lines will be provided on an outsourced, closely coordinated basis by the Excelsior team.
• The Program Management Office (PMO) which reports into the Managing Director, will be provided by the Excelsior Firm. This high-execution team will provide the Managing Director and CAMME with the necessary bandwidth in the first two years to design programming and operating protocols, drive strategic initiatives and provide any additional support as theCAMME team is being recruiting and developed. This team will also provide continuity with knowledge and relationships from the initial opportunity assessment and business plan design phases.
  DESCRIPTION OF YOUR ROLE AS MANAGING DIRECTOR OF CAMME
  As the Managing Director of CAMME, you will be the primary leader driving the CAMME platform implementation and operations. The ultimate success and impact of this institution will reside within this role. Your primary goals are facilitating rapid growth of East African mid-sized companies, developing the next round of business executives and entrepreneurs, and creating corporate partnerships within and outside of the continent. To achieve this, you will have to recruit and develop your team of 7-10 staff members, source and maintain funding and other stakeholder relationships, and manage the Board of Directors to provide critical oversight and access to relationships and resources.
  You will be assisted by three senior managers – the Chief Administrative Officer, Director of Education and Business Consulting, the Director of Capital Advisory and Partnership – as well as the Program Management Office.
  
  • The Chief Administrative Officer will ensure the execution of the operations backbone of CAMME, and also serve the primary deputy to the Managing Director. Responsibilities that will fall under this office include financial, legal, risk management and compliance, marketing, IT, and general administration functions. Some of these functions will be provided directly the CAO and the team, while others will be outsourced (e.g., legal, IT).
  • The Director of Education and Business Consulting will drive the first two components of the CAMME offering - Education and Research, and Business Consulting. Reporting into this role:
    • The Education Services Manager will design the educational and research offerings of CAMME and coordinate the delivery of these services with the core education partners.
    • The Business Consulting Manager will design and manage the Business Consulting offerings as well as manage specific Consulting projects for our enterprise clients. This manager will be assisted by a Consulting Associate staffer and outside consultants (if necessary from a demand and content requirements standpoint).
  • The Director of Capital Advisory and Partnership will be provided by the Excelsior Firm, but will report into the Office of the Managing Director. This is a market facing function; therefore the structure of this role is guided by a public-private partnership approach, with Excelsior providing the private component on a contractual and rigorously monitored basis.
  • The Program Management Office, as mentioned previously, will be provided by the Excelsior Firm on a contractual basis for 24 months to design and implementation of overall project architecture, operate all pilot offerings and processes, assist in recruiting and developing incoming staff, drive communications to external stakeholders and funders, and develop the initial knowledge base and research of CAMME. Ultimately, this office will transition all of these functions over to the full time CAMME staff within the 24 month period and shut down.
  • Lastly, as you continue to build out your own business network in East Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, we expect that you will be establishing and maintaining strong relationships that could convert into business opportunities for CAMME and its client entrepreneurs and organizations.
  As a summary, key responsibilities will include:
  
  • Drive overall CAMME strategy, with appropriate Board of Director guidance
  • Manage the Board of Directors for oversight and access to relationships and resources
  • Manage funder, government, private sector, and other critical stakeholder relationships
  • Drive CAMME performance through management, recruiting and development of CAMME staff
  • Provide executive oversight to service partner relationships – Strathmore, Excelsior, and other relationships
  • Generate new business engagements and projects for growth opportunities for the CAMME platform.
  QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE
  Achieving the ambitious vision of CAMME will require assembling a world-class team, starting with the Managing Director. To ensure that we have identified the right talented individual, we will focus on several qualifications:
  YOUR STATUS WITH CAMME
• Distinctive academic qualifications (e.g., MBA, PhDs, JDs) from world-class universities
• Professional experience in top-tier operations, professional services (e.g., legal, consulting, finance) or non-profits (e.g., Gates Foundation, Clinton Foundation) environments of at least 7 years
• Extensive contacts in multilateral / bilateral donor community, private donor community, governments, and private sector community in Africa as well as North America / globally
• Prior experience in institutional fund-raising
• Prior experience managing and recruiting a team of professionals
• Experience and familiarity with implementing initiatives in emerging market environments, as well as sensitivity to different cultural and organizational environments
• Intrinsics
  • Ability to operate independently and professionally in senior stakeholder interactions (e.g., Government ministers, multi-national senior executives, CAMME board members) and these relationships on a peer basis
  • Tenacious in meeting deadlines, with a strong sense of urgency and good self-management discipline
  • Ability to work in a team-based environment and perform in a start-up atmosphere
  • Ability to present information in an insightful and structured manner in written and oral formats
  • Strong quantitative and qualitative analytics

• The initial term of the relationship with CAMME will be for one year, and will be renewed upon mutual agreement between you and the CAMME board.

COMPENSATION
Compensation will be competitive with senior non-profit professionals within the Sub-Saharan Africa market. In addition, you may be eligible for two additional forms of compensation:
Benefits – CAMME will provide health and retirement benefits benchmarked against similar multi-national organizations in Africa.
Discretionary bonus – On discretion of the Board of Directors, you will be eligible for a bonus based on project impact, utilization, and quality of CAMME building efforts. Bonuses will be awarded following the completion of one year with CAMME or at the end of the first full fiscal year.

CONTACT
For more information or to express interest, please contact our team at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , title the subject as: “Role: Managing Director of CAMME” and provide your CV/resume, a one page description of why you are best suited for the role, and three references.

Role description – Project Manager for Center for African Mid-Market Expansion (CAMME) project
Role title: Project Manager, CAMME Project Management Office
Geography: Based primarily in Nairobi, Kenya with limited travel within East Africa
Reports to: Managing Director of the Excelsior Firm, with a dotted line relationship to Managing Director, Center for African Mid-Market Expansion
Timing: Position open for immediate staffing (October 2011)

CONTEXT OF THE OPPORTUNITY - A PLATFORM TO SCALE UP MEDIUM-SIZED BUSINESSES IN EAST AFRICA
The vision of the Excelsior Firm, a global capital advisory company, is to accelerate business and infrastructure growth in Africa and drive socio-economic impact. Working with our partners at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, as well as other partners in Africa like Strathmore Business School, we are building an innovative center focused on scaling up small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), beginning in East Africa, and then expanding across Africa and other emerging markets. The objective of the Center for African Mid-Market Expansion (CAMME) is to utilize market-based solutions and private-public partnerships to facilitate inclusive economic growth, by which we mean: job creation for low and middle-income families, improved access to essential goods and services, environmental sustainability, and support for young and women entrepreneurs. The 5 key activities of CAMME will include: 1) Leadership and advanced business education to enhance the acumen of African executives; 2) Business consulting services to streamline operations and improve competitiveness; 3) Capital advisory services to facilitate access to smart financing; 4) Partnership formation between local and international companies to create new markets, share resources and address technical skill gaps; 5) Research and knowledge building to disseminate findings, expand the middle market and increase exits for principal investors.

Our initial focus is on East African technology-enabled enterprises due to the strong continuing growth in the region, the ability for ICT infrastructure to facilitate progress across industries, and the role of entrepreneurs in not only creating economic growth but also in generating a substantial portion of jobs in developing countries. Over the past year we have conducted rigorous analyses and interviewed over 250 interviews stakeholders in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. These included entrepreneurs, principal investors, governments, multi-lateral institutions and private sector leaders. Our published work identified the following gaps that should be addressed in order to successfully scale up African businesses: 1) Entrepreneurial management skills & mentorship; 2) Organizational competitiveness & efficiency; 3) Access to smart capital limited by inflexible terms and collateral-based financing; 4) Access to new markets and global partnerships; 5) Lack of exits for principal investors. Furthermore, the gap in services supporting medium-sized enterprises is most prominent, so CAMME will be primarily focused supporting these companies.

To address these needs, the Excelsior Firm has assembled a high caliber set of individuals and partnerships including the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and Strathmore Business School in Kenya. Excelsior is at the knowledge forefront of entrepreneurship and business development in Africa, leading the way with seminal publications for the World Bank, DFID, and Hivos on Transforming the ICT Sector by Creating a Business Engine for SMEs. Current efforts are aimed at finalizing discussions with potential partners in East Africa including the Kenyan ICT board, the Kenya Private Sector Alliance, and UNDP AMSCO. To implement these interventions, CAMME will be co-located at Strathmore, a top African business school. The delivery staff complement will include 10-15 individuals for a platform requiring an investment of USD 5 million for the first 24 months to support the design phase and pilot phases. The platform will be self-sustaining within 4 years. Impact will include thousands of skilled jobs and millions in GDP impact for the East Africa region, and greater access to markets, finance, technology, and talent for the East African companies and their US and global partners.

What CAMME looks like
The primary physical location of the innovation center will be located in Kenya, to take advantage of existing infrastructure and networks. The delivery staff will be a combination of Excelsior, global and local partner university personnel and students. We expect a total staff of 7-10 individuals. We will drive to creating a self-sustaining institution by year four, generating fees from management advisory, research, and educational services to individuals and companies, as well as capital advisory and market access services. We will implement the appropriate management tools, including a rigorous monitoring and evaluation scheme reflecting the key goals of greater economic impact, job creation, sustainability of businesses, and promoting women entrepreneurs. In addition, we will apply a rigorous risk management system that addresses threats such as untested service offerings in the region, variance in the landscape analysis, and potential human capital obstacles.

CAMME itself will be structured as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in the United States and will provide the core offerings of Education & Research and Business Consulting services to medium size businesses1 across East Africa. The most competitive companies within CAMME would then be eligible for the additional market-based offerings of Capital Advisory & Partnership Formation provided by Excelsior Firm, with full cost, risk, and profit to the Excelsior Firm. The overall structure:

• Education & Research and Business Consulting services will be offered directly by CAMME staff, which specific modules delivered by our academic partners.
• Capital Advisory, Partnership Formation, and Investment Exit access service lines will be provided on an outsourced, closely coordinated basis by the Excelsior team.
• The Program Management Office (PMO) which reports into the Managing Director, will be provided by the Excelsior Firm. This high-execution team will provide the Managing Director and CAMME with the necessary bandwidth in the first two years to design programming and operating protocols, drive strategic initiatives and provide any additional support as theCAMME team is being recruiting and developed. This team will also provide continuity with knowledge and relationships from the initial opportunity assessment and business plan design phases.

DESCRIPTION OF YOUR ROLE AS PROJECT MANAGER OF THE CAMME PMO
As the Project Manager for the CAMME Project Management Office, you will serve as the Excelsior Firm’s representative on the management team and our implementation leader as the CAMME platform is built over 2012 and 2013. The success of the CAMME launch will be contingent on the performance of role. The Program Management Office, as mentioned previously, will be provided by the Excelsior Firm on a contractual basis for 24 months to design and implementation of overall project architecture, operate all pilot offerings and processes, assist in recruiting and developing incoming staff, drive communications to external stakeholders and funders, and develop the initial knowledge base and research of CAMME. Ultimately, this office will transition all of these functions over to the full time CAMME staff within the 24 month period and shut down.
Lastly, as you continue to build out your own business network in East Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, we expect that you will be establishing and maintaining strong relationships that could convert into business opportunities for CAMME and its client entrepreneurs and organizations, with the goal of achieving positive socio-economic impact in Africa.

As a summary, key responsibilities will include:

• Serve as chief of staff to the CAMME Managing Director
• Establish processes and department protocols for the service offerings and back office support functions
• Assist Managing Director in driving CAMME performance through management, recruiting and development of CAMME staff
• Serve as interim capacity across service offerings until CAMME team is in place
• Assist the CAMME Managing Director and Excelsior in managing funder, government, private sector, and other critical stakeholder relationships
• We are looking to staff up this role immediately, since we are already heavily engaged on the designing of CAMME.

QUALIFICATIONS FOR THE ROLE

• Achieving the ambitious vision of CAMME will require assembling a world-class team. To ensure that we have identified the right talented individual, we will focus on several qualifications:
• Distinctive academic qualifications (e.g., MBA, JDs) from world-class universities such as Harvard and Oxford
• Professional experience in top-tier consulting and corporate environments of at least 4 years such as McKinsey, Goldman Sachs and Skadden
• Experience and familiarity with implementing initiatives in emerging markets environments, as well as sensitivity to different cultural and organizational environments
• Strong business network in Africa and solid trajectory to build out that network on behalf of the Firm
• Intrinsics
  • Ability to operate independently and professionally in senior stakeholder interactions (e.g., Government ministers, multi-national senior executives, CAMME board members)
  • Strong program management skills, tenacious in meeting deadlines, with a strong sense of urgency and good self-management discipline
  • Ability to work in a team-based environment and perform in a start-up atmosphere
  • Ability to present information in an insightful and structured manner in written and oral formats
  • Strong quantitative and qualitative analytics

YOUR STATUS WITH THE EXCELSIOR FIRM
The initial term of the relationship with Excelsior will be for one year, and will be renewed upon mutual agreement between you and our Firm, following a yearly evaluation process. Depending on performance, Firm requirements, and your preferences, you may be transitioned into

COMPENSATION
Monthly compensation and benefits will be competitive with mid-tenured consulting professionals within the Sub-Saharan Africa market. In addition, you may be eligible for two additional forms of compensation:
1. Project sourcing bonus - For any project (either within the CAMME umbrella or outside of it) that is introduced by you, won by our Firm, and successfully completed we will award a bonus equal to a percentage of the gross profit, defined as project revenues minus direct staff charges and overhead charge (i.e., charges for the Project Manager, Director/Experts involved, and Excelsior Firm Global overhead).
2. Discretionary bonus - You will be eligible for a bonus based on project impact, utilization, and quality of Firm building efforts. This bonus can be as much as 30% of your salary for the term.
Both bonuses will be awarded following the completion of your term with our Firm or one year with our Firm, whichever comes first.
In the event that we have to terminate the contract for a material reason not related to performance, you will be entitled to one month’s compensation as severance.

CONTACT
For more information or to express interest, please contact our team at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it , title the subject as: “Role: Project Manager, CAMME PMO” and provide your CV/resume, a one page description of why you are best suited for the role, and three references.