Position Title: Business Analyst (Generalist & Chief of Staff Function)
Location: Nairobi, Kenya (with up to 25% travel to Malindi)
Employment Type: Full-Time
Preferred Start: Immediate
Women strongly encouraged to apply
About Giraffe Bioenergy
Giraffe Bioenergy is building the largest cassava-to-ethanol ecosystem serving the clean cooking market in East Africa. Our mission is to deliver affordable, sustainable ethanol cooking fuel as a scalable alternative to charcoal and kerosene. By 2028, we aim to build 75 million liters/year of ethanol fuel capacity supplied by over 20,000 hectares of locally grown cassava.
About the Role
We are seeking a highly motivated and versatile Business Analyst to serve as a strategic right hand to the executive team. This person will act as a generalist with Chief of Staff-style responsibilities, ensuring effective coordination across teams, managing internal operations and projects, and supporting executive decision-making. This is a high-impact, cross-functional role reporting to the CEO, with dotted-line collaboration with Finance, HR, and field teams. You will also provide oversight of a part-time Executive Assistant who manages core administrative tasks.
Key Responsibilities
1. Strategic & Executive Support
- Coordinate and track key priorities, projects, and follow-ups for the CEO.
- Prepare briefing materials, memos, and reports to support leadership decision-making.
- Lead internal communication between executive leadership and departmental heads.
- Provide analytical input on business operations, strategy, and performance.
2. People & HR Coordination
- Oversee the end-to-end hiring process in coordination with the part-time EA and hiring managers.
- Maintain and update employee records; ensure HR policies are understood and consistently applied.
- Coordinate onboarding and orientation for new hires.
- Support culture-building initiatives and quarterly team feedback processes.
3. Project Management & Execution
- Drive implementation of cross-functional projects and strategic initiatives.
- Track KPIs, timelines, and deliverables to ensure execution across departments.
- Facilitate regular check-ins with departments and produce progress dashboards or status updates.
4. Finance & Procurement Oversight
- Liaise with the Finance team to track budgets, spending, and compliance.
- Support vendor and procurement tracking processes to ensure timely execution.
- Analyze operational data to identify cost efficiencies and process improvement opportunities.
5. Field Operations & Logistics Coordination
- Coordinate with field teams in Malindi to streamline logistics, supply chain, and reporting.
- Ensure smooth communication and planning for site visits, events, and stakeholder engagements.
Candidate Profile
Must-Haves
- 5+ years’ experience in a generalist business role (project management, HR ops, or strategy).
- Strong organisational and multitasking skills with a proactive, execution-oriented mindset.
- Demonstrated ability to work across teams and manage cross-functional projects.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Comfort with data analysis, dashboards, and business reporting.
Nice-to-Haves
- Experience in a startup, agriculture, energy, or manufacturing setting.
- Familiarity with HR systems, finance tools, and project management software.
- Previous exposure to rural operations or logistics planning is a plus.
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Our mission at Delta40 is to increase incomes and tackle climate change in Africa by building and investing in inclusive climate innovations. At Delta40, we invest in Africa because 40% of the world will live on this continent by 2100. We invest in energy, agriculture and mobility innovations because they are essential to sustainable growth. We invest in climate innovation because we only have 10 years to act to prevent irreparable damage to Planet Earth. We invest in diverse Founders because they are close to the customer and bring critical ideas, experiences and skills to solving the biggest problems on this important continent. Beyond capital, our venture studio team provides hands on support, shared services and partnerships to our ventures and Founders to increase speed, returns and impact. Together, we aim to deliver life-changing innovations to the last mile across Africa and to build a community of Founders go from idea to scale to exit.
