Good Growth Entrepreneur-in-Residence: Animal Accelerator
Location: Remote (Asia-Pacific or India time zones preferred)
Type: Seed Grant (potential for full-time based on funding)
Project: Asia Movement Accelerator (Resource Mobilisation)
The Opportunity
Good Growth is seeking an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) to build and lead our Asia Movement Accelerator, a new infrastructure layer designed to help high-potential animal advocacy projects survive and scale.
We have identified a critical gap in the Asian ecosystem: while incubators are producing new founders, these early-stage organizations often lack the specific technical, organizational, and contextual competencies to scale effectively in the region. They struggle to find local talent, navigate complex political landscapes, or set up operational systems, leading to wasted resources and stalled progress.
We are launching a "Build" phase intervention to solve this. Instead of a traditional cohort-based curriculum, we are prototyping a "Fractional CXO" service model. We will provide agile, hands-on infrastructure support, answering the "How" of implementation, to reduce the time, cost, and risk of launching new interventions in Asia.
Role Overview
As the EIR for the Animal Accelerator, you will act as the Program Lead and Operator. You will build out the overarching program objectives, touchpoint frequencies, advisor network, and manage the program momentum. We aim to assist an initial portfolio of 3-5 high-potential founders and coordinate ~100 hours of dedicated support per project over a 4-6 month period, ranging from legal, HR, engineering, strategy, etc.
Timeline & Key Responsibilities
Month 1: Program Design, Pipeline Selection & Gap Assessments
- Program Design: Define the program objectives and mechanics with the internal team by determining how the support will be structured, distinguishing between "intensive hands-on execution" (e.g., hiring, infrastructure setup, etc) versus "strategic advisory" (e.g., stakeholder intros, coffee chats with industry professionals, etc). Conduct needs assessments with our initial pilot candidates to validate your program design, ensuring the accelerator solves their actual bottlenecks rather than theoretical ones.
- Service Matching: Identify which gaps could be filled with Good Growth’s internal resources (e.g., project management, hiring, etc) and which require external partners to plug into the program where specialized skills are needed.
- Scoping & Selection: Finalize the initial cohort of 3-5 projects and run a more in-depth baseline organizational analysis (e.g., assessing strategy, leadership, fundraising, and ops) to identify the specific "capacity gaps" for each organization.
Months 3-12: Coordination & Implementation
- Program Kickoff: Officially launch & onboard the pilot cohort, by working with the selected founders to establish shared goals, define working norms, and agree on the immediate priorities for their support allocations (e.g., how best to utilize their "100 hours" of assistance).
- Advisor Coordination: Begin setting the ecosystem of support around these founders, by matching them with our partners and experts, running workshops, etc.
- Accountability: Manage the day-to-day operations of the accelerator to keep everyone moving forward. You will hold founders accountable to their roadmaps through regular check-ins, help them troubleshoot operational bottlenecks, and ensure that the support provided translates into tangible organizational progress.
Months 6-12: Review & Reporting
- Playbook Creation: Document the common bottlenecks and solutions into "Collaboration Playbooks" for the movement and future accelerator participants.
- Sustainability Model: Validate the unit economics of this accelerator. Can this model be funded by re-grantors? Does it lead to measurable "budget influenced" or "orgs launched"?
- Graduation & Next Steps: Organize a graduation milestone or report. You will help founders define their post-accelerator roadmap, potentially connecting them to downstream funding opportunities or further capacity-building resources within movement.
Who You Are
- The Operator: You have experience running a startup or non-profit. You know what it takes to get from "idea" to "registered entity with a bank account and a strategy."
- The Generalist: You are comfortable wearing multiple hats (recruiter, strategist, operations manager, fundraiser, etc) depending on what the founder needs that week.
- The Connector: You understand the Asian animal advocacy landscape (or have an interest in it) and can connect founders with the right mentors, funders, and technical experts.
- The Force Multiplier: You derive satisfaction from helping others succeed. You understand that your role is to build the scaffolding so the founders can build the building.
Why This Matters
- Survival: You are helping high-potential projects survive the critical early years where most fail due to operational drag.
- Efficiency: By providing shared infrastructure, you prevent every new organization from having to "reinvent the wheel," saving the movement significant time and money.
- Localization: You are ensuring that international resources are translated effectively into local contexts, preventing the failure of Western models in the Global South.