[Hiring] Manager, Africa Accelerator @Praxis

Role Description

This role reports to the Regional Ecosystem Partner, Africa, at Praxis. As Manager, Africa Accelerator, you will run the day-to-day of Praxis' accelerators on the continent. This is an operational role. The other members of our team recruit and select the founders, recruit the mentors, and coach the Fellows. You make the program run, owning the calendar, communications, logistics, and systems from the first recruiting push to the outcomes Fellows achieve after the cohort ends.

Each accelerator is a 9-month program built around three week-long in-person gatherings, two on the continent and one in the U.S., with monthly coaching in between. In Africa, we run two: a business accelerator led by our Africa Ecosystem Partner, and a nonprofit accelerator led by our Nonprofit Accelerator Venture Partner. You partner with both leads to run each one.

The accelerators are your main work, but they aren't the end goal. They serve Praxis' vision of a dense network of redemptive entrepreneurs across Africa. About 10% of your time goes to supporting that broader regional ecosystem, and we're looking for someone who is happy to flex when the network needs it.

This is a Manager-level role for someone based in Africa who knows its entrepreneurial and faith-based communities, takes full ownership of a program calendar, and cares about the details that make founders and mentors feel well hosted.

Qualifications

• Strong, hands-on fluency with AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) and use them daily alongside the Praxis set of digital tools, such as Google Suite, Airtable, Notion, Slack, Asana, Typeform, and Dropbox.
• 4+ years of professional experience in program management, ideally with accelerator, fellowship, or other cohort programs.
• Experience running the operations of a cohort, fellowship, accelerator, or similar program from recruitment through outcomes.
• Ability to build trust with founders, mentors, and senior leaders across cultures.
• Clear, warm written communication for founders, mentors, and partners.
• Experience working closely with senior leaders on a shared program, including scheduling, correspondence, and meeting preparation.
• Comfort working with a team across time zones, with regular overlap with New York (Eastern Time).
• Engage with the Praxis team and community as a student and growing practitioner of redemptive entrepreneurship.

Requirements

• Manage recruitment and selection for both cohorts, including the application process, candidate evaluation materials, and interview scheduling, in partnership with the program leads, who make selection decisions.
• Draft recruiting outreach and communications with the program leads, and prepare research on candidates ahead of key conversations.
• Coordinate the logistics of mentor and venture coach recruitment and onboarding.
• Own the program calendar across the full cycle (e.g., recruitment, selection, onboarding, Kickoff, mentor cycles, and the cohort experience at the Nairobi Regional Gathering).
• Draft and send communications to Fellows, mentors, and venture coaches.
• Prepare program materials with the program leads, coordinating with our events team for a clean handoff of on-site logistics.
• Provide on-site program support at accelerator events.
• Run the virtual program between convenings, including monthly cohort calls, the venture coach cadence, and the pitch coaching cycle.
• Support the program leads to drive outcomes for current Fellows and portfolio alumni.
• Build and maintain the Africa accelerator playbook so processes, timelines, and templates are documented and easy to hand off.
• Support the Regional Ecosystem Partner on broader regional ecosystem priorities beyond the accelerators.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits including fully paid health insurance for families.
• Flexible vacation policy.
• All travel expenses covered by Praxis.

Company Description

Praxis began in 2011 with a desire to support and equip Christian entrepreneurs and has grown steadily into a 30+ person, NY-centric team advancing the redemptive imagination and action of founders, funders, and innovators motivated by their faith to address the major issues of our time.

As a $15M+/year nonprofit with ambitious growth plans, we're expanding our venture-building work globally, organizing around the major issues of our time, and building media and more to activate the redemptive potential of Christians around the world.

We see our team as the first carriers of the mission, building an organization that is great to work at, excellent in its craft, and redemptive in its finances as well as its programs.