Job Vacancies at Eko Innovation Centre
Eko Innovation is currently seeking application from suitably qualified candidate to fill the positions below:
Job Title: Program Manager (Acceleration)
Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
About The Role
- The Program Manager Business Acceleration will be responsible for the strategic identification and scaling of Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) to growth, building them into enterprises.
- The focus is to help drive companies from early stage to rapid growth and transform them into enterprises.
Job Description
- Identifying relevant & viable businesses through an in-house selection platform to be created.
- Project managing the value chain process of acceleration including strong stakeholder management for maximum visibility and business success.
- Contribute to development, planning of our venture support programs and formats
- Design and supervise learning platform and curricula for business development
- Drive and ensure business start-ups meets and deliver their set business objectives
- Project-manage their activities all year round to ensure they meet their marketing, sales & revenue targets.
- Organizing and coordinating in-house activities (workshops, networking, lunch and learns, movie nights, outings, etc) aimed at growing the community and adding value to our members and their businesses.
- Develop business plans and present to management quarterly
- Conduct local and global venture scouting with both private & public partners
- Manage our acceleration calls for applications, shortlisting & interviews
- Manage stakeholders that relate to our acceleration activities
- Manage government, public & social sector projects
Job Requirements and Personality Traits
- 3+ years post-graduate experience in business development, management & support or other relevant positions
- You love working with start-ups or even started one.
- Excellent track records of meeting and exceeding Project management KPIs
- You have good knowledge of startup methodologies (Lean startup,BMC, rapid prototyping etc)
- The ideal candidate MUST have experience in business development and a developing knowledge of accelerator programmes.
- A self-motivated team player, a dynamic, entrepreneurial person with a keen passion for helping entrepreneurs succeed. Adept at managing multiple projects at once, very detail-oriented and organized, learn quickly, and have a track record of being adaptable in a fluid, high-growth environment.
Leadership and Growth Behaviors:
- Act like An Owner: Deliver results, creating value for our Brands, our System, our customers, and key stakeholders.
- Develop self and others: Develop self and support others' development to achieve full potential.
- Growth Mindset: Demonstrates curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.
- Smart Risk: Makes bold decisions / recommendations.
- Externally Focused: Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work. Tracks and shares external trends, best practices or ideas.
- Performance Driven and Accountable: Has high performance standards. Outperforms her / his peers.
- Fast / Agile: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace.
Job Title: Program Manager (Learning)
Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
About The Role
- The Project Manager Learning will be responsible for the strategic development, implementation, execution, and coordination of a training school, training programmes and learning initiatives for EIC.
- The focus is to build training programs relevant to techies, techprenuers and start-ups to enable their enterprise development.
Job Duties
- Acts as the Program lead and Project manager for our Learning and Development program
- Builds out a strategic plan and roadmap for Learning and Development opportunities and initiatives, including Continued Education, policy and data trainings
- Partners with Researchers and other Research Ops & Program Managers on program areas such as the Continued Education Series and contributes to other research team programs and initiatives when needed
- Facilitates relationships between teams, moves initiatives forward, finds resources, raises concerns to appropriate owners early and resolves open issues that prevent progress
- Hold the line when schedule or progress is in jeopardy while maintaining respectful relationships
- Predicts roadblocks and obstacles and establishes meetings or integration points between teams
- Prioritize competing needs with good reasoning and creative solutions
- Works with cross-functional teams to develop and design our UX team trainings
- Maintains and refines research programs and initiatives, establishing best practices, next steps and outcomes
- Coordinates resources across multiple projects and teams
- Contributes to program processes and tools, updating databases and initiating improvements where needed.
Role Requirements
- 3-5 years of Program or Project Management experience
- 2+ years in experience creating learning and educational programs for teams
- Experience with communication, organisation and juggling multiple priorities
- Track record of operating independently and delivering results
- Skilled in learning content development
- Strong ability to be analytical (quantitative and qualitative), problem solve, think big picture, and get into the weeds.
- Strong experience with leading teams/projects using agile practices.
- Experience in strategic planning, risk management and/or change management.
- High level of proficiency with Google suite(sheets, docs, slides) and communication technologies, such as Slack and Zoom.
- Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills, with the ability to articulate information to a variety of constituents.
- Excellent listening and interpersonal skills with demonstrated experience collaborating effectively across multiple functions.
- Flexible, adaptable, and able to execute a range of job duties and changing priorities.
- Possess professional maturity, cultural sensitivity, and the integrity that exemplifies Eko Innovation’s values.
Leadership and Growth Behaviors:
- Act like An Owner: Deliver results, creating value for our Brands, our System, our customers, and key stakeholders.
- Develop self and others: Develop self and support others' development to achieve full potential.
- Growth Mindset: Demonstrates curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.
- Smart Risk: Makes bold decisions/recommendations.
- Externally Focused: Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work. Tracks and shares external trends, best practices or ideas.
- Performance Driven and Accountable: Has high performance standards. Outperforms her/his peers.
- Fast/Agile: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace.
Job Title: Program Manager (Research and Sustainability)
Location: Ikoyi, Lagos
About The Role
- The Project Manager, Research & Sustainability will be responsible for aligning EIC with SDGs by driving all civic-tech initiatives, government projects, partnerships, & grants.
- The role will also identify and lead a relevant local research project to satisfy a defined business objective.
Job Duties
- Lead the creation of new programs in support of overall sustainability strategy in partnership relevant stakeholders.
- Develop tools, processes, or other capabilities to support execution and transition responsibility to business.
- Obtaining funding for projects through rebate applications, grants, and project proposals.
- Create and manage a roadmap to transform and improve the organization’s performance and drive cross-functional teams to these goals through influence and partnership.
- Manage a portfolio of strategic sustainability initiatives and programs, identifying gaps and proposing solutions.
- Report periodically to management on activities, milestones reached on targets
- Oversee and support the consulting and research teams on a variety of activities & activities.
- Manage metrics to report program success as well as find opportunities for improvement
- Supervise & Manage deliverables of the Community Business Officer which includes internal stakeholders & facility operations at 50, Awolowo Road, Ikoyi as well as social media & corporate communications
- Oversee external stakeholders, public and private engagements on behalf of Eko Innovation Centre
- Manage government, public & social sector engagements
- Manage & Execute the Research & Sustainability Program pillar of the Eko iCentre including Grants processes, Research & Data acquisition processes and learning gamification projects
- Ensure 100% Success of all Programs and Workshop.
Role Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 3-5 years of experience in Business Operations or Sustainability, Community Engagement, Diversity Programs, or other transformational roles.
- Experience in a sustainability field (e.g., community/social engagement/redevelopment, environmental restoration programs, diversity programs, circular economy initiatives).
- Experience drawing meaningful insights from data to create strategy, tell a narrative, and operationalize solutions.
- Experience in automation, tool, process development, and/or analytics.
- Experience partnering effectively on cross-functional projects or teams. Ability to build relationships and influence key partners to achieve results through collaboration.
- Ability to communicate effectively across multiple levels including executive leadership, peers, and managers. Ability to identify and track metrics of success.
- Excellent execution through program management and communication skills.
Leadership and Growth Behaviors:
- Act like An Owner: Deliver results, creating value for our Brands, our System, our customers, and key stakeholders.
- Develop self and others: Develop self and support others' development to achieve full potential.
- Growth Mindset: Demonstrates curiosity. Welcomes failure as a learning opportunity.
- Smart Risk: Makes bold decisions/recommendations.
- Externally Focused: Understands the upstream and downstream implications of his/her work. Tracks and shares external trends, best practices or ideas.
- Performance Driven and Accountable: Has high performance standards. Outperforms her/his peers.
- Fast/Agile: Removes barriers to move faster. Experiments and adapts. Thrives under pressure and fast pace.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to:
[email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.
Note: If the above sounds like an exciting role to you, please tell us why you believe you’re a good fit and we’ll be in touch