Career Planning Manager Job Vacancy at Andela
Called “the startup that’s harder to get
into than Harvard” by CNN, Andela is a business with a mission. We
are developing a corps of high-quality technology talent across the
African continent
that will drive the current and future phases of
tech-enabled growth around the world. With the fastest growing
population and some of the highest youth unemployment in the world, we
believe Africa is one of the greatest untapped markets for talent
development.
At Andela, we find the brightest young people in Africa, train them
to be world-class fellows, and connect them with employers around the
world looking for top technical talent. Passion, excellence,
entrepreneurial spirit, and rejecting the status quo are just a few of
the things that Andela team members have in common. We have a vision to
train 100,000 world-class fellows in the next 10 years. Read more about
why Forbes magazine named us one of the 10 most important social impact companies today.
Job Title: Career Planning Manager
About the Career Planning Manager
As the Career Planning Manager you
will be responsible for ensuring that Fellows are thinking about their
careers, both for their time at Andela and for after they graduate, and
that Andela is doing everything possible to enable those careers. Key
performance indicators that you will be measured on include:
- % of Fellows with career plans
- % of Fellows tracking along their career plans
As part of the Andela Technical Leadership program, we provide
Fellows the opportunity to pursue many different paths toward technical
leadership, as well as prepare them for their time after being in the
program. As part of that effort, we provide Fellows with career advice
and help them plan out the path that they'd like to take through the
Fellowship in order to get the maximum benefit of the training and
experiences that we offer. Initially this will be a sole contributor
role but over time this position will be responsible for managing career
counselors as we scale to include more and more Fellows.
Key responsibilities of this role:
- Assess Fellows' personal characteristics, skills and interests via one-on-one interviews and/or group sessions;
- Check in with the Fellows at least
quarterly to ensure that they are making progress on their career plans
or updating it to reflect their new interests or options made available
- Compile data from all the Fellow career
plans to ensure that Andela is offering the necessary training to
support the most desired career options
- Manage career counselors in performing related tasks
- Provide appropriate help, advice and recommendations based on interviews/test results;
- Be a subject matter expert on existing and emerging technology-related career paths;
- Conduct workshops for Fellows and staff;
- Help Fellows to manage their own careers
by developing career plans that cover their time at Andela as well as
what they want to do when they graduate from the program
Qualifications:
- Passion for our mission
- Bachelor's degree in counseling or a related field; certificate programs in career or life coaching are also acceptable
- Experience in guiding people to make the right decision versus making it for them
- Excellent organizational skills
- Excellent problem-solving skills and demonstrable creativity.
- Experience managing junior staff working in a distributed manner
- Willingness to travel between Andela centers in Africa on a semi-frequent basis
- The successful candidate must possess both
the ability and the willingness to work independently and act on
her/his independent judgment.
- Work in a technical company or other relevant experience in understanding technical roles and career paths
- Excellent oral and written communication skills;
- Experience
in clarifying objectives, dealing with ambiguity/under-defined
problems, advocating for simplification, and influencing team members
How to Apply
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