AFRIKA KOMMT! 2023-2025 Fellowship Profiles

Please read the available fellowship profiles carefully and select the one that best suits your qualifications and experience. On the application form, you will be asked to select at least one profile.

There are 47 fellowship profiles available for the 12th intake, offered by 9 companies : B.Braun Melsungen, Boehringer Ingelheim, BioNTech SE, Robert Bosch GmbH, Merck KGaA, ODDO BHF, SAP SE, Volkswagen AG. and Siemens Healthineers

All applications must be submitted by 26th March 2023. The programme will start in November 2023 in Germany.

Education:

University degree (B.A. or M.A) in Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Human Resources Management, Organizational Behaviour, Behavioural Economics, Sociology, Psychology or a related field of studies

Professional Experience: 

• 2-4 yrs
• Working experience in Human Resources, Learning & Development or Organizational Development
• First hand experience in developing programs to foster Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I)

Country Focus: All

Education:

Advanced level education and a university degree (B.A. or M.A)  in e.g. economics, pharmacy, science or technic

Professional Experience: 

• 2-4 yrs
• Good communication skills, e.g. digital in social media and in team & project meetings
• Basic project management experience
• Good handling and experience in MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, MSTeams, Outlook, Whiteboard)
• Readiness to learn new BPE tools and skills

Country Focus: All

Education:

Bachelor of Science, MBA, MSC or equivalent

Professional Experience:

• SAP Security Know-How
• SAP Basis Operations Know-How
• SAP Developer

Country Focus: All

Education:

A university degree in HR-Management; Business Economy; Psychology; Business Administration; Education; or related fields

Professional Experience:

Our ideal candidate has a proven record on strategic HR topics such as People Development, Talent Acquisition & Management, Organisational Development, Leadership Development, Diversity,Equity & Inclusion, social sustainability or community work/CSR topics

Country Focus: All

Education:

A degree in computer science or information systems.

Professional Experience:

• 2-4 yrs
• Broad perspective on IT projects from demand to realization to running a product.
• Professional experience as an IT manager, IT project lead, IT consultant or a similar role

Country Focus: All

Education:

A university degree in business administration, economics, social sciences  or any other

Professional Experience:

• A proven track record in social entrepreneurship and successfully translated ideas into tangible business models.
• Social entrepreneur/social intrapreneur who has been part of creating new social businesses in areas like human and animal health, hygiene, agriculture, energy, food, environment, water, safety etc.

Country Focus:

Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Uganda, Rwanda (The focus of all corporate Making More Health activities is on these Sub-Sahara countries)

Education:

Degree in business administration, pharmacy, medicine or any science field

Professional Experience:

• 2-3 years of professional experience in a multinational company
• Experience in healthcare industry would be an asset with focus on the access to healthcare

Country Focus: All

Education:

A degree in computer science and Business Economics or similar

Professional Experience:

• Business process excellence or auditing
• Data analytics
• Project management

Country Focus: All

Education:

A degree in computer science and / or Business Economics or similar.

Professional Experience:

• 2-4 yrs
• Broad perspective on business consulting, agile project management and / or business processes capabilities
• Project management training and / or experience, especially experience in agile project methodologies is an add on
•  Experience or knowledge in continuous improvement Agile methods and business process excellence

Country Focus: All

Education:

Master in Bioinformatics or Scientific Master (Biotech, Biology, Chemistry, Pharmacy) with additional data science experience.

Professional Experience:

• Relevant experience in data science preferrably in the biotechnology or biology area for at least 3 years including experience as an agile project team member.
• A general understanding of the workflows and the analytical data and method generation are important.
• Proven experience in generating insights into data driven processes and work with data on a scientific level such as advanced statistics, analysis methods, automation and software development.

Country Focus: All

Education:

Bachelor in Psychology or Design/Interaction Design

Professional Experience:

• 1 -4yrs experience in User Experience Design, User Research, Quantitative or Qualitative Research Methods, Lean Startup, Growth Hacking

Country Focus: All

Education:

Master’s degree in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, computer science, bioinformatics, etc

Professional Experience: 

• At least one year of relevant professional experience in the field of data science
• Experience in the use of advanced analytical and technical competencies to transform raw data into insights
• Experience in the creation, evaluation and implementation of data science solutions

Country Focus: All

Education:

Degree in business informatics, business administration, natural science (e.g. MBA, MsC) media or psychology

Professional Experience:

• 3-5 years experience in digital communication
• Excellent project management skills
• Experience in WEB development and -processes

Country Focus: All

Education:

Bachelor’s degree, or other undegratuate academic degree

OR

Master’s degree of business administration, natural science (e.g. MBA, MsC), media, or psychology

Professional Experience:

• 3-5 years experience in digital communication
• Excellent project management skills
• Practical experience in using CMS-Systems and MS Office (PPT, Excel)
• Proven experience in agile working skills, ability to handle complex workload, high cross functional collaboration and networking skills

Country Focus: All

Education:

Required: Master of Science/ Master of Public Health, MBA

Preferred: PhD, PharmD, MD

Substantial education in health economics or related discipline (e. g. health services research, public health, epidemiology, biostatistics)

Professional Experience:

• Work experience in relation to health economics, health policy, Market Access or reimbursement, e. g. in payer organizations, HTA or other government agencies, non-profit organizations, or industry
• Hands-on experience in health economic modeling
• Ideally first experience in the pharmaceutical or medical device industry, regulatory agencies, or consulting

Country Focus: All

Education:

Bachelor/Masters Degree, ideally in Communications or Journalism or Business Administration

Professional Experience:

• High affinity for topics of high complexity in health and sustainability
• Hands-on experience in this field in a corporate or agency environment
• Basic proficiency in project management and journalism or PR

Country Focus: All

Education:

M.D. with strong scientific and clinical background in Infectious Diseases (e.g., Malaria, Tuberculosis), ideally with drug development (Phase 1-3) experience

Professional Experience:

• Minimum of 2-3 years of experience within Infectious Diseases in a hospital/or the academic setting incl. contributing/particpating in clinical studies

Country Focus: Sub-Saharan Africa

Education:

Natural/ life sciences or medical background (university degree or experience in a medical profession such as Nurse or Medical Technical Assistant  or Pharmaceutical Technical Assistant or M.D.

Professional Experience:

• Minimum 4 years of experience within Infectious Diseases in project management, on-site monitoring of clinical trials or clinical trial coordination with practice in project planning and structuring
• Good knowledge of relevant laws and regulations
• Hands-on experience in supporting the ongoing clinical day-to-day work for the successful delivery of clinical trials is an advantage.

Country Focus:

Subsaharan Africa

Education:

Degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Professional Experience:

• 4 years experience product demand and Supply Chain Operations
• Good knowledge of customs requirements and processes

Country Focus: All nationalities

Focus on South African Region

Education:

Bachelor or Master degree in Marketing (focus on marketing, sales, business development, business strategy or similar) or technical degree with relation to technical consumer goods

Professional Experience:

• Experience in marketing, sales, within automotive (or similar), building up and development of new or existing product ranges
• Development of new business, marketing strategy or market controlling
• Ideal: Professional experience in multinational companies or experience in another country

Country Focus:

Egypt, Morocco or South Africa

Nationality: South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Kenya

Education:

Bachelor or Master degree in business informatics or commercial information technology.

Professional Experience:

• Project management experience in leading SAP projects (focus on sales legal entities)
• Know How and implementation experience of different SAP modules (focus SD (sales Distribution)

Country Focus: Angola, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Marrocco, Nigeria, South Africa, Tunesia

Education:

Degree in Business Informatics, economics or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Professional experience:

• +3 years of experience in B2C and eCommerce
• Experience in one or more of the following areas: B2C Solution Architecture, SEO, Paid Media, Conversion-Rate-Optimization and/or Digital Marketing Analytics

Country Focus: All

Education:

Bachelor or Master degree in economics, management (focus on digital marketing, sales, business development, business strategy or similar), business informatics or commercial information technology

Professional Experience:

• Experience in marketing, sales, services or business development in technical consumer goods
• Build up and development of new customers / customer relationships / social media strategies
• Set up of sales organization, development of new business, marketing strategy or market controlling

Country Focus: Morocco, Egypt and South Africa

Education:

Bachelor or Master degree in economics, management (focus on digital marketing, sales, business development, business strategy or similar), business informatics or commercial information technology

Professional experience:

• Experience in marketing, sales, services or business development in technical consumer goods
• Build up and development of new customers / customer relationships / social media strategies
• Set up of sales organization, development of new business, marketing strategy or market controlling

Country Focus: Morocco, Egypt, South Africa

Education:

Bachelor Degree in Mechanical Engineering.

(Post graduate financial qualification will be an advantage)

Professional experience:

• Strong experience in sales, service and business development. Building up and developing new customer/existing customer relationships
• Manage an established sales and organisation, enhance existing business with established customers
• Experience in managing and leading people with open, transparent and positive leadership attitute

Preferred Nationality: ECOWAS Region. Preferably Ivory Coast

Education:

Engineer degree in Mechanic, Electronic, Science, Chemical in relation with the Hydrogen PEM (Proton Exchange Membran) Electrolyser technology

Professional experience:

• Experience in Hydrogen PEM stack integration into a green Hydrogen system generation is a must
• Experience in project management of complex renewable energy project

Country Focus:

• To be located in Egypt, Morocco or South Africa

Nationality: South Africa, Egypt, Morocco, Ghana, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Kenya

Education: 

• Degree in Data Science / Pharmacy/ LifeScience/ Chemistry/Medicine / Philosophy or similar, alternatively Political Sciences / Communications or similar
• MBA is an advantage

Professional Experience:

• 3+ years in the Science & Technology / Pharmaceutical Sector or other Industry
• Preferred experience either in Digitalization or Public Affairs / Communications / Corporate Responsibility
• Project Management education is an advantage

Country Focus: All

Education:

Master level education (MS, MBA or Pharm D)

Professional Experience: 

• 1-3 years experience in drug development or regulatory affairs in the biotech/pharmaceutical industry
• Knowledge of drug development process/EMA/ICH regulations and processes
• Understanding/experience in policy development and implementation

Country Focus: All

Education:

• Master’s degree in chemical or process engineering required.
• PhD. welcome.

Professional experience:

• Ideally experience in production of fine or specialty chemicals or API.
• Experience in engineering of chemical production plants
• Min. 2 years professional experience in chemistry industry

Country Focus: All

Education:

Bachelors or master’s degree in economics, business administration or related field

Professional Experience:

• Min. 5 years of experience in International Banking Environment
• EDP skills; Microsoft Office mandatory, VBA, Java, Python or other coding/programming know how appreciated, digitalisation mindset
• Experience in trade and export Finance
• Prior experience with products such as letters of credit, guarantees, international payments and Export Credit Agency business

Country Focus: All nationalities welcome but preference will be given to French speaking countries

Education:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science or related fields

Professional Experience:

• Experience in Program Management with focus on effective orchestration, prioritization, delivery, and (internal) customer-value orientation
• Experience in professionally and effectively structuring and managing programs across teams / organizations with various stakeholder interests
• Experience in collaborating across different functions and geographies, strong sense of accountability and ownership

Country Focus: Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe Rwanda, Ethiopia

Education:

University degree in Information Technology, Business Administration, Natural Science or Engineering

Professional Experience:

• You have software development experience
• You are open-minded and have a collaborative personality

Country Focus:

Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe Rwanda, Ethiopia

Education:

Bachelor’s degree or higher in one of the following areas: Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, Business Information Technology, Mathematics, Natural Sciences or comparable

Professional Experience:

2-3 years hands-on experience as SAP Basis Consultant to understand tasks and processes in operations

Country Focus: Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe Rwanda, Ethiopia

Education:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, applied sciences or related fields. Preferred field(s): Computer Science or Business Administration

Professional Experience:

• Experience in technical business software / services consulting or other technical customer facing roles
• Experience in applying Design thinking or similar methods
• Delivering professional workshops or other externally facing events

Country Focus: 

Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe Rwanda, Ethiopia

Education:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Innovation Management, Computer Science, Communications and / or Visual Design or related fields

Professional Experience:

• Experience working with visual design tools
• You are able to challenge and shape our visual branding for SAP runs SAP
• You are driven and are able to execute topics self-dependend and deliver tangible results

Country Focus:

Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe Rwanda, Ethiopia

Education: 

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Innovation Management, Computer Science, Communications and / or Visual Design or related fields

Professional Experience:

• You have experience at least one year experience in storytelling
• You have worked with storytelling techniques and brand messaging before
• You can bring requirements and design together

Country Focus:

Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe Rwanda, Ethiopia

Education:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related fields.

Professional Experience:

• Minimum two years of hands-on professional experience in Machine Learning/ AI, preferably as part of a business application.
• Good understanding of lean and agile development
• Ability to work effectively in a global distributed team

Country Focus:

Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe Rwanda, Ethiopia

Education:

Graduate degree in business informatics, computer science or similar

Professional Experience:

• Experience in Product Management (ideally in software products)
• Practical experience in the management of a product lifecycle

Country Focus:

Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe Rwanda, Ethiopia

Education:

University degree or equivalent work experience in Business Administration, Information Technology/Computer Science, Economics and/or Sociology (or related field)

Professional Experience:

• You have professional experience in an IT company of more than 2+ years
• You enjoy working in an intercultural context
• You like to work in complex projects and programs on a global scale, where you apply project management standards and methods

Country Focus:

Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe Rwanda, Ethiopia

Education:

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science or related fields

Professional Experience:

• Experience in Program Management with focus on effective orchestration, prioritization, delivery, and (internal) customer-value orientation
• Experience in financial and resource planning
• Experience in analysing market environments and identifying future trends

Country Focus:

Kenya, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe Rwanda, Ethiopia

Education:

Bachelor or Master degree, preferably in Medicine or in Biomedical Engineering

Professional Experience: 

• Professional experience in health related consulting or
• Experience in the medical technologies’ environment or
• Clinician with experience in radiology or
• Biomedical engineer/Clinical technician with experience in managing medical imaging (MR, CT, Xray)

Country Focus:

Sub-Sahara Africa

Education:

Financial Degree with major in Business, Accounting or Ecomonics

Professional Experience: 

• 2 years plus experience in Financial Plnning and Controlling, Tax and Customs
• Working Knowledge of Finance processes
• Works well independently and in a team

Country Focus:

Rwanda/Ghana Citizens to support Volkswagen South Africa Subsidiaries

Education:

Degree in Logistics  / Transport  /Sales Marketing / Digital marketing  / IT with business background

Professional Experience: 

• 2 years plus work experience in any organisation
• Project Management skills
• Ability to prepare and present

Country Focus:

Rwanda/Ghana Citizens to support Volkswagen South Africa Subsidiaries

Education:

Degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management

Professional Experience: 

• 2+ years experience in an automotive development environment
• An exposure to and utilization of project Management system
• Recognised drivers Licence with 2-5 years of driving experience

Country Focus: South Africa

Education:

Business Degree in  any of the following disciplines (Purchasing, Logistics, Commerce, Finance, Business Management)

Professional Experience: 

• 2 years plus of Purchasing preferably in the manufacturing and or across broad range of industries
• Ability to prepare and present
• Good communication skills

Country Focus: South Africa