Careers and collaboration
Bring your expertise, curiosity and capacity to turn ideas into useful work.
Refuture Africa welcomes expressions of interest for future roles, project collaborations and internships across our practice.
Work with Refuture Africa
We work with people, communities, businesses and institutions to uncover potential, imagine desirable African futures and design the systems, enterprises and capabilities that can bring them into being.
Our work connects strategic foresight, futures thinking and systems thinking with human-centred research, design and practical testing. It can involve understanding a community’s needs, exploring a policy or business direction, developing an offer, or helping a team move from an idea to a working test.
We value people who can question assumptions, work carefully with evidence and collaborate across disciplines. Respect for people and context matters, alongside clear communication, sound judgement and the ability to deliver.
Ways to contribute
Future opportunities may include staff positions, part-time or fractional roles, project contracts and internships. We will set out the scope, responsibilities, location, time commitment and compensation in each confirmed opportunity.
We welcome interest from people working across African contexts and the diaspora. Some assignments may require local research, customer access or in-person work; others may support remote collaboration. Working arrangements will be agreed for each role.
Tell us which areas best match your experience and the contribution you want to make. You can select more than one area.
Lead the delivery of fellowship programmes, from participant onboarding and session coordination to supervision, learning support and progress reviews. Help translate a programme’s purpose into a well-run experience with clear expectations and useful contributions.
Express interestGuide business and venture projects from a scoped opportunity to a practical test. Coordinate multidisciplinary teams, resources and decision points, while keeping the work commercially grounded and the handover useful to the project owner.
Express interestShape and lead client engagements that draw on research, strategic foresight, systems thinking and design. Frame the brief, guide the team, maintain quality and help clients make informed strategic or implementation decisions.
Express interestInvestigate present realities, customer needs, systems and emerging changes. Contribute design research, qualitative or quantitative inquiry, futures research and clear synthesis that helps people understand an opportunity and choose what to do next.
Express interestTurn research and possibilities into propositions, prototypes and working materials. Contribute service, product, business, experience or communication design, and use feedback from people to improve what the team develops.
Express interestCoordinate wider programmes and client or venture projects. Manage plans, budgets, partners, reporting and delivery, helping teams keep commitments and resolve the practical issues that affect progress.
Express interestDevelop relationships and opportunities that support the practice and its programmes. Contribute partnership development, client relationships, sponsorship, proposals and fundraising, connecting relevant organisations with work they can help commission or support.
Express interestSupport opportunity screening, customer and market research, business-model assessment and financial analysis. Prepare evidence and decision materials that help a venture team assess feasibility, test assumptions and decide where further effort or investment is justified.
Express interestBuild experience through a defined contribution to research, design, programme support, communications or venture work. Future internships will have a clear brief, named supervisor and agreed learning outcomes, with duration, hours and compensation set out before acceptance.
Express interestWhat happens next
Tell us about your interests, relevant work, preferred working arrangement and availability. A concise profile and an example of your contribution are enough at this stage.
We will review your profile against relevant future work and may contact you when there is a suitable opportunity. Where a match exists, we will share the specific brief and invite you to apply or discuss the assignment. Registering interest does not reserve a position or create an offer.
Questions before you register
This page collects expressions of interest for future opportunities. Confirmed vacancies will have their own role brief, terms and selection process.
Yes. Tell us whether you prefer a staff role, part-time or fractional work, a project contract, an internship, or a flexible arrangement.
Yes. Share what you can contribute and what you want to learn. Academic, personal and community projects can help demonstrate your capabilities; previous formal employment is not required for internship interest.
To take part in a fellowship, use its programme page. This careers register includes people interested in leading or supporting programme delivery, alongside roles across the wider practice.
Share your interest
Share a short profile so we can consider you for relevant future roles or project work. Fields without “optional” are required. Please share professional information rather than confidential project files.
A concise profile and a work example are enough at this stage.
Interest received
Your profile has been received. We may contact you when there is a relevant opportunity and will share its scope, terms and next steps at that stage.
Questions or changes to your profile? Email hello@refuture.africa.