IMPACT

REPORT

2022
Prepared by :

Cate Carabine
Scot Hymas

support@skepfoundation.org
GREETINGS TO THE
👋🏽
SKEP COMMUNITY!

Skep launched in November 2021, originally under the name of

CareerWize Foundation, with a focus on providing digital skills and

jobs to the rising tide of intelligent, capable, and tenacious individuals

spread throughout West Africa. Since then, it’s been a wonderful

journey watching the Skep community grow. With the addition of

each new individual, we become a stronger whole, more equipped to

tackle the mammoth problem of underemployment.

We’re committed to empowering Africans to secure global jobs and

we have our sights set on 2030 as the benchmark for Africa being

recognized internationally as a premier destination for outsourcing

digital work.

But we know we can’t do it alone. We’re glad you’re here!

So, sit back, relax, and enjoy the tale of a start-up that went from three

people - two gentleman and one lady - to more than 3,000 individuals,

in one year. We’re excited to share the past year with you, and to

continuing growing with you!

Skep

Scot Hymas Cate Carabine

Executive Director Director of Operations

Scot Hymas Cate Carabine

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 01.
CONTENTS Our Story

02.
Skep Ecosystem

04.
Jobs Council

05.
Training Programs

07.
Partnerships

08.
Team Members

09.
BYU Interns

10.
Looking to 2023

11.
Thank You
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OUR STORY
In 2020, Scot Hymas and his wife Jeralie were living in Accra, Ghana,

working with youth, ages 18-30. During their time there, they noticed a

widespread lack of employment and opportunity. This issue proved to

become the focus of their purpose there and their work upon returning

to the United States: How to drive jobs to Africa, and especially to the

youth population, at scale.

Several months before returning to the United States, Scot met Dave

Jensen, co-founder of CareerWize, a medical coding learning platform,

and founder of Aviacode, a medical coding, and billing technology-

enabled services company in the Revenue Cycle Management (RCM)

space. Dave assured Scot that if individuals could be trained as

proficient medical coders, he could find them employment. Thus began

Skep Foundation.

Since that time, Skep has grown to include new members and new

training opportunities, and Dave Jensen has created C360, an

organization designed to employ certified African medical coders.

Trends Shaping
the Skep Agenda

The pandemic has made remote work not only

Mission
01 a legitimate option but in many cases the
preferred option for employers
To Empower Africans to Secure Global Jobs

Vision
02
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)

conversations have become ubiquitous across

Africa recognized internationally as a premier

all sectors
destination for outsourcing digital work by 2030

Values

03
Skills-based hiring has replaced resume-based

hiring as a best practice

Honest
Integrity
Collaboration
04
Both employers and employees expect that the

salaries of remote workers will be adjusted to

Resilience
reflect the economic realities of where the
Continuous Learning
workers reside

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SKEP

ECOSYSTEM

Professional
In-Country

Associations/
Program

BYUMS .... Partners

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Training
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Donors Program

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Providers
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...
Jobs

Council

....
.... ....
....
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Ske
p H ir e ..
Global Job

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Employers
......

Platforms
.....

....
...

Technology
Remote

Center Workstation

Partners Vendors

3061
African
Members of Skep

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 SKEP

ECOSYSTEM
Skep Foundation

A non-profit 501(c)(3) organization acting as the apex of the Skep

ecosystem and performing a variety of functions:

Integrates Skep Hire, the Jobs Council, online training platforms,

employers, donors, students and workers

Conducts research and development on emerging markets and

niches ripe for BPO

Works with potential employers to identify requisite skills and secure

contracts to be outsourced
Administers microfinance loans to eligible students
Coordinates with potential donors in support of jobs agenda

worldwide
Establishes strategic partnerships with professional associations to

expand communities of practice in Africa

Coordinates with NGOs and other organizations involved with United

Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) relating to education

and jobs (4,8)

Skep Hire

A benefit LLC with various functions related to employing a distributed,

independent, and international workforce:

Matches trained workers to employers
Provides international payroll services
Facilitates the repayment of microloans
Ensures workers have necessary technology to perform job-related

tasks
Performs consulting services for worker onboarding (mitigates risk to

employers in hiring African talent)

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JOBS COUNCIL
We are thrilled to share a major achievement of 2022: the creation of the

Skep Jobs Council! Comprised of a young man and a young woman from

each of 18 distinct geographic areas in West Africa, plus representatives

from Kenya, Zimbabwe, and South Africa, the Jobs Council consists of 40

members and will be at the core of all Skep does. Members of the Jobs

Council have a variety of responsibilities:

Skep Jobs Council Members

Represent Skep as ambassadors

Provide feedback to the executive

team on Skep programs

Share/Teach the "Launching
Leaders" course to those
interested in their areas
Assist in starting up a BYU

Management Society Group

in their areas
Help identify and establish
"Co-Working Tech Centers"
in their areas
Identify and develop a pool of local

technology vendors who can provide

resources needed for job

opportunities
Help establish a network of local

support professionals (CPA, attorney,

business consultant) to assist

solopreneurs transition into the

formal economy

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 TRAINING PROGRAMS
Skep currently partners with organizations to offer

training in three programs: Medical Coding, Data

Analytics and Digital Marketing

Medical Coding Program Highlights

4
Students Sourced
"I cannot thank (Skep)

enough for... providing me a

job as a Skep hired

to Work

760
contractor. I have benefitted

from the training and

increased income to take

care of my family"
Active Students*

17
Michael Ahoma Wisdom

Certified Students

33
Students in Virtual

22
Internship

Waiting for Funds to

Progress into
Core

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*active students are those who have completed 20% or more of the pre-requisite courses
TRAINING PROGRAMS
It's our goal to offer a variety of training niches for
students. As such, in 2022, we began beta testing*
the viability of training opportunities in Data
Analytics and Digital Marketing. We also became
official Grow with Google partners and were
awarded 500 licenses for Google courses offered via
Coursera. Stay tuned as we open up additional
niches in 2023!

Data Analytics & Digital Marketing Program Highlights

11
17 Students Enrolled in

Digital Marketing

and Part of Beta

Students Enrolled in
Test*
Data Analytics and

Part of Beta Test*

While our students progress through the courses, we are diligently

hunting internship and employment opportunities. We're grateful

to Taylor Ward, Brian Baxter, and Maureen Mehr for helping us

build out new niches!

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*A beta test is performed by a sampling of the intended audience to evaluate the viability of a product)
PARTNERSHIPS
A BIG thanks to our partners - we're looking at you!

We know that together we're stronger and more

capable of fulfilling our mission to empower

Africans to secure jobs. Here's to future

collaborations and opportunities of working

together!

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TEAM MEMBERS
Scot Hymas
Strategy

Cate Carabine
Operations

Dave Jensen
Medical Coding, C360

Leon & Marilyn Button

Student Progress

Peter Webb
Remote Workstations

Neil Whitaker
Trade Assoc./ BYUMS Liaison

Faye Kelly
CareerWize Medical
Coding Expert

Daniel Usoro
Student Progress

LaDawn Meade
Database
Richard Welch Taylor Ward
Finance Niche Dev

Chris Nibley Maureen Mehr

Tax Returns/Financial
Fundraising/
Statements Niche Dev
We are indebted to the individuals

Jeralie Hymas Andrew Fellows that have found their way onto our

Jobs Council Legal

team. A huge thanks goes out to

each of them for their

Jim Hopkins Ken Wilson

Jobs Council Micro Loan contributions!
Management

Brian Baxter Truly, we couldn’t do it without

Niche Dev/ Cindy Hargett them.

Employer Liaison Job Readiness

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BYU INTERNS
This past year we had the privilege of working with
fourteen interns from BYU. We were blessed and
impressed by their work.

To each of them, thank you, and cheers for a job well

done! 🎉

Tristan Covington Andrew Cole

Cole Nisson Nathanial Hatch
Chandler Sosa Brecken Jergensen
Lauren Warner Taylor Ward
Jonathan Pulley
Shawn Benteti
Dignan B. Getz
Hannah Jensen
Zoe Sutherland
Caleb Smith
1680
Intern hours

contributed

A recap of their work:

Researched and beta tested the swarm BPO@home business

model and the remote workstation
Conducted R&D on potential future collaborations with

organizations in the Skep space around UN SDGs 4,8

Explored viability of Africans creating NFTs to fund training

programs
Aggregated photos, videos, and other content from students
Created Skep social media pages
Assisted in the selection of candidates and creation of the

Jobs Council

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LOOKING TO

2023
This upcoming year is going to be big.

Training Open additional

niches from the

5000 Grow with Google

New African Skep

catalog
Members

1500 750
New Students
Certified

into the Skep

Students
Ecosystem

8000
Skep Members

Communitites
of Practice
Jobs Create a robust

mentoring

network (peer-to-

peer and external

Create a
consortium of
80 professionals)

employers to Establish a minimum

provide of two co-working

internships to
tech centers in each

students of Jobs Council

500 geographic regions

Establish a

network of local

Students

support

sourced to work
professionals in

Create each geographic

employer-driven
region
fund for remote
Create BYU
Management

workstations
chapters in each

geographic area

with working

groups with each

job niche

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THANK YOU

Working with our African friends fills us with a sense of

wonder, anticipation, and optimism. The barriers separating

Africa from the global economy are beginning to disappear

with each connection and each addition to the Skep family.

We're grateful to each of our friends across the way and are

honored to stand with them.

And so, with immense thanks to them, to you, and to all of

those we're privileged to work with, we bid you...

Ban kwana

O dabọ

Ka ọ dị

Nante yie

Mia dogo

Au revoir

Goodbye!
support@skepfoundation.org

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