Program Manager (Learning) at Eko Innovation Centre

Eko Innovation Centre is an Innovation Centre created to foster the growth and development of start-ups and entrepreneurship in Nigeria. Here, we take them from concept to commercialization.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

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
• 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.
• 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

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
• 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.
• 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.

Leadership and Growth Behaviors:

• Act like An Owner: Deliver results, creating value for our Brands, our System, our customers, and key stakeholders.
• 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.
• 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.

Salary Range
N300,000 - N350,000 / Month.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candiates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email

Application Deadline  11th May, 2022.