Internal Strategy Associate - Ladder

Role: Internal Strategy Associate 

Location: Hybrid

Compensation: Ghs 3000 – 6000 / NGN 400,000 – 500,000

Commitment: Full time 

 what you’ll do day to day

1. - Analyze and work to deeply understand the founders’ goals, and protect their time accordingly.
2. - Develop detailed and thoroughly-formatted slide decks including partnership proposals, strategy documents, data reports, and others as requested by the founders
3. - Assist executives in preparing for meetings; including gathering research, drafting agendas, setting up pre- and post-meeting communications
4. - Provide operational project support for C-suite initiatives; including research, literature reviews, validation exercises, data modeling, project tracking, feedback analysis, cross-functional stakeholder engagement
5. - Prioritize conflicting requests and needs, handling matters proactively, swiftly, and to completion while meeting deadlines
6. - Draft agendas, meeting notes and corporate documents for executives
7. - Respond to emails and document requests on behalf of executives
8. - Manage active calendars, coordinate internal and external meetings, prepare agendas, take notes, and track follow-up action items across C-Suite engagements
9. - Arrange domestic and international travel plans and itineraries
10. - Assist C-Suite with ad hoc projects and tasks as required.

Minimum Qualifications

1. - Experience in managing multiple priorities, administrative coordination, and logistics
2. - Well-organized, detail-oriented, ability to multi-task with great follow-up skills
3. - Strong written and verbal communication skills
4. - Decent quantitative analysis skills

Nice to Have

1. - Prior experience at a high-growth startup or corporate institution in a generalist, strategy, business development or operations role
2. - Strong Powerpoint and Excel skills
3. - Project management experience

About You

Our ideal candidate possesses the following qualities:

1. - Detail and action-oriented individual with an **owner's mindset**
2. - A high level of professional and personal **integrity**
3. - **Comfortable working under pressure and deadlines** in a fast-paced, dynamic, high-energy environment, with a high metabolism for learning
4. - **Leadership acumen** to work across multiple operational and administrative departments
5. - A high degree of **confidentiality** in dealing with sensitive matters
6. - Ability to **handle multiple demands** and to **respond rapidly** to changing priorities
7. - Tech-savvy, with a resourceful ability to find & leverage digital tools for outcomes
8. - ***Excellent*** verbal and written communication skills. This is a non-negotiable. You must know how to write like you're speaking, be an active listener, and over-communicate from beginning to end. You must know how and when to speak up for yourself and for others.
9. - ***Excellent*** soft skills, especially managing upwards with a keen sensitivity for stakeholder expectations and business outcomes. Also non-negotiable. Working with you must be a delightful experience.

**Working at Ladder**

This role is expected to put in a total of 40 hours of quality work weekly. We work remotely and mostly async, with an expectation of online availability between 10 AM to 6 PM GMT. Due to the nature of this role, you are likely to have in-person responsibilities.

We operate in small, focused teams, with no time tracking and minimum bureaucracy – only results matter. We will support you to learn, grow, and be more productive.

### **What’s in it for you:**

- You’ll be one of our earliest hires, bearing a lot of ownership and responsibility in a high impact position that influences our culture, processes, and business execution. As we grow, so do you. All roles at Ladder are structured to help our employees evolve as career rockstars. We will support you with the resources you need to succeed and up-skill.

- You’re joining a rocket ship — here at Ladder, you’ll be joining a truly world class team with tremendous growth potential.

- You’ll have a blast — this is a fun, inclusive, collaborative, and kind group of people, excited about building a product that matters.

How To Apply 

Females are strongly encouraged to apply. If you'd like to tell us a bit more about yourself and why you're a good fit, please send your resumé and a brief statement of interest to careers@myladder.africa

Please submit your resumés in PDF format. Word (.docx) documents will not be reviewed.