About KOKO NetworksKOKO Networks is a venture-backed climate-tech company with 1,200+ employees across East Africa amp; India. Our mission is to imagine and deliver technology that improves life in the world’s fastest growing cities. We offer a fast-paced and highly collaborative work environment with significant opportunities for professional growth. Our core lines of business currently include: (1) KOKO Fuel, an ultra-clean liquid bioethanol cooking fuel solution delivered via a network of smart fuel ATMs and leveraging existing downstream liquid fuels infrastructure;(2) KOKO Climate, which retails the emissions reductions that occur from switching households from deforestation-based charcoal to KOKO Fuel; and (3) KOKO Club, a tech-enabled, direct-to-consumer, instant fulfillment retail platform operated in partnership with neighborhood retailers.In 2021, KOKO was selected as the world’s leading emerging markets climate technology solution by FT/IFC.
Your RoleAs Business Operations Associate, you will help design solutions to strategic business problems alongside teams across KOKO and support implementation of these solutions as the company scales. This role is highly collaborative, with the vision that the "BizOps" team will work in service of teams across the business - much like an internal consulting unit. You will help identify problem spaces and use that knowledge to drive improvements across the business.What You Will Do- Work cross-functionally with KOKO’s commercial, engineering, product, operations, and executive teams
- Support in planning and delivering of key strategic initiatives, with a view to owning full projects from analysis to execution
- Support in gathering insights to understand problem spaces across the business and translate business problems into process and technology improvements for relevant teams
- Design and build tools and dashboards to make key data available to teams
- Analyze data to provide insights and effectively communicate these insights to team members and leadership
- Develop best practices among teams around process and solution design
What You Will Bring- Bachelor’s degree
- 2+ years of work experience as a contributor on complex projects and programs
- Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills (ideally developed through management / strategy consulting experience, business operations, or product and software design roles)
- Experience supporting information-gathering exercises or leading stakeholder interviews
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill complex thoughts and strategies into simple, actionable recommendations
- Minimum intermediate proficiency in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets
- Comfort with data ambiguity
- High levels of reliability and attention to detail
- Comfort with multi-tasking, with strong bias towards action
- Comfort in a fast-paced, start-up environment
KOKO is committed to gender and racial diversity in the workplace. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply!