She Leads Africa is a community that helps young African women achieve their professional dreams. With engaging online content and pan-African events, our vision is to become the #1 destination for smart and ambitious young women.
- Job Type Full Time , Remote
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience 3 years
Job Description
- The Head of Programs will be responsible for organizing and generating revenue from SLA offline / online programs, managing projects from end to end, developing relationships with brands and identifying additional revenue streams for the company.
Specific Responsibilities
Events:
- Organizing programs and activities in accordance with the mission and goals of the organization.
- Work closely with project sponsors, cross-functional teams, and assigned project managers to plan and develop scope, deliverables, required resources, work plan, budget, and timing for new initiatives.
- Secure event partnerships that involve research, conference calls, proposals and in-person meetings.
- Serve as a spokesperson for official events and programs.
Project Management:
- Overseeing the successful launch of products
- Understanding how different projects interlink and overlap
- Developing an evaluation method to assess program strengths and identify areas for improvement.
- Implementing and managing changes and interventions to ensure project goals are achieved.
- Producing accurate and timely reporting of program status throughout its life cycle.
- Analyze, evaluate, and overcome program risks, and produce program reports for management and stakeholders.
- Liaising with the marketing and communications team to increase awareness of programs
Strategy Formulation:
- Developing and implementing strategies for the programs team, including developing a robust risk mitigation plan for different projects
Team Management:
- Manage the programs team for optimal return-on-investment, and coordinate and delegate cross-project initiatives
- Communicating and coordinating event targets with the Marketing and Sales team
Budgeting and Financing:
- Managing budgets and reporting on fund allocation
HGCP:
- Conduct customer development research to identify the skills and training our community is looking for and integrate that into our programs
- Develop content for the platform
- Manage and engage with relevant content partners, set-up meetings, and drive short and long-term goals for the success of the platform
Requirements
We’re looking for someone who:
- Has 3+ years of proven experience in a project lead role
- Has a thorough understanding of project / program management techniques and methods
- Exhibits proficiency in budgeting and finance management
- Has experience curating educational content/curriculum designing
- Has exceptional leadership, time management, facilitation, and organizational skills
- Has recorded success working in a startup and had direct involvement with improving industry partnerships
- Has the ability to juggle multiple priorities
- Has exceptional communication skills, and demonstrated ability to build high-trust relationships
- Has experience guiding cross-functional teams in a highly iterative, rapidly evolving agile environment.
- Can work independently and is happy to join a virtual team
- Has a can-do attitude and is flexible enough to take on any task we throw at them
- Is passionate, hungry and eager to build SLA into a world-class institution
- Has high professional and ethical standards i.e. understands that there’s no such thing as African time – you’re just late
- Is comfortable taking and giving feedback
- Has a good sense of humor – because we’ll be working hard so we better keep each other entertained
- Is comfortable working in a startup environment where we’re making the rules up as we go along
Commitment:
- Full time position
Hours of work:
- 50 hours per week, usual working hours are from 9:00am – 6:00pm WAT.
- There will be a requirement from time to time to start work earlier or finish later as the role
dictates.
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to She Leads Africa on sheleadsafrica-talent.freshteam.com to apply
