AfriLabs is a network organisation supporting Innovation Centers across African countries since 2011, founded upon the mission of building a community around the rapidly emerging technology hubs in Africa. These hubs serve as centers that provide support to African entrepreneurs, innovators, developers, and youths. By providing physical co-working and dedicated office spaces, as well as inclusive training and business, legal and financial support, we play an active role in helping to raise successful entrepreneurs who will create jobs and develop innovative solutions to African problems.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Senior Programmes Manager
Location: Wuse, Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full-time
Reports to: Director of Programmes
Job Description
- AfriLabs is seeking to recruit a Senior Programmes Manager.
- The Senior Programmes Manager will be responsible for coordinating and managing programmes and projects in its entirety from design to implementation, and supervision of teams working within the projects and department.
Responsibilities
- Designing, planning and implementation of programmes as well as proactively monitoring its progress, resolving issues and initiating appropriate corrective action.
- Ensuring effective quality assurance and the overall integrity of the programme – focusing inwardly on the internal consistency of the programme, and outwardly on its coherence with infrastructure planning, interfaces with other programmes and corporate, technical and specialist standards.
- Managing the programme’s budget, monitoring expenditure and costs against delivered and realised benefits as the programme progresses.
- Ensuring there is allocation of common resources and skills within the programme’s individual projects.
- Supervising and managing programme teams working on projects.
- Reporting the progress of the programme at regular intervals to the Director of Programmes.
- Fulfil other tasks set out by supervisors.
Skills, Qualifications & Abilities:
- Master’s Degree or equivalent in Economics, Mathematics, Project Management, Business Administration, Social Sciences, Professional body affiliation or a field related to the position.
- A Bachelor’s or equivalent degree with a combination of relevant academic qualifications and additional 5 years of experience in project management may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
- Certification in project management courses such as CPM, Prince2, PPM and related ISO standards is highly desirable.
- Knowledge of the African innovation, technology and entrepreneurship space.
- 5 – 7 years of experience leading major entrepreneurship, technology and innovation grassroots projects.
- Effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Good knowledge of adaptive project management techniques like agile, human centred design, lean impact etc.
- Good knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures.
- Sufficient seniority and credibility to advise project teams on their projects in relation to the programme.
- Ability to find ways of solving or pre-empting problems.
- Adept with information communications technology (ICT) commonly used in office applications, with advanced knowledge of Google Drive applications, Dropbox and Microsoft Office products.
Working time/days:
- 9 AM – 5 PM; Monday to Friday.
Terms and Conditions
- This is a locally recruited professional position by the AfriLabs Secretariat Nigerian entity and all benefits are denominated and paid in NGN. AfriLabs’ remuneration package includes a salary paid monthly, leave provisions, pension, and health benefits.
Application Closing Date
20th July, 2022.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
