Seed Internship Summer 2017 Opportunities - Côte d'Ivoire
Seed Internship Opportunities - Côte d'Ivoire
1. QuickCash
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Strategic Project Area: Value Chain Innovations
Project requirements: Fluent French and interest in marketing
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate & Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: QuickCash, founded in 2010, is a money exchange and remittance company that brings global financial services and economic opportunities to rural populations throughout Africa.
They design and implement mobile money services to create a prosperous, connected, and active ecosystem for rural communities throughout West Africa and the world.
2. Le Fermier Du Denguele
Odienne, Côte d'Ivoire
Strategic Project Area: Company leader's Chief of Staff (working on strategic projects involving multiple areas of the company)
Project requirements: Engineering background, Fluent French
Internship suitable for: Stanford Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: FDCI is a growing nutrition company focused on qualitative production of eggs, chicks and animal feed; providing economic opportunities for local communities and employment from Denguele region in the northwest region of Cote d’Ivoire and border countries (Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso). Le Fermier du Denguele farm is situated in the village of Odienne, in the north of La Cote d’Ivoire and in the heart of one of the most important regions for livestock rearing.
The farm has positioned itself as a one stop shop for all poultry produce and offers incubation and sale of day old chicks, live birds and feed processing. The next step is to move into dressed and frozen birds for the growing market in the country.
FDCI is well positioned to create an additional number of jobs in excess of 500 to over a 1000, while developing the farmers in the north. FDCI is well supported by experts in the field – FDCI’s principal technical advisor has 40 years experience in poultry farming in Belgium and they are also working closely with a UNIDO expert in strategic planning, marketing and financial diagnostics.
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Strategic Project Area: Company leader's Chief of Staff (working on strategic projects involving multiple areas of the company)
Project requirements: Fluent French, Computer Science and Engineering background a plus
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate & Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: The Groupe Ecoles d'Abidjan (GEA) is an institution of teaching and training which is positioned as a polytechnic institute that provides young graduates with proven professional skills but also and above all, whose personality makes them genuine Leaders who are confident in their future and of their future role in African society.
Anxious to add value to the traditional training of learners, GEA places special emphasis on the personal involvement of students in the various extracurricular activities in order to detect and promote the development of their potential.
Installed in a residential area, on a floor area of 1000 m², GEA must propose 5 futures levels (4000 m²), in its building which also houses classrooms, practical workshops, laboratories, the various other spaces such as cafeteria, library, games room, multi-media, business incubator, etc.
The current enrollment of students is expected to be four hundred (400) for this academic year. The objective is to increase this workforce to four to five thousand (4000/5000) in ten (10) years.
4. Societe Des Materiaux Edjiks (SOMATED)
Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Strategic Project Area: Operations - Manufacturing Processes
Project requirements: Fluent French, Mechanical Engineering background
Internship suitable for: Stanford Undergraduate & Graduate students (MBA, MSx, MA, MS, PhD)
About the company: SOMATED manufactures roof tiles, pavements, and decorative bricks. After learning design thinking with Stanford Seed, SOMATED now designs new metallic products. They are currently designing and aiming to manufacture little vehicles.
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