An Indigenous Firm that provides professional services in research, training and consulting seeks to recruit a personnel to head its training department, which provides training services to its stakeholders and clients. The position is 3rd level from the CEO, but reports to the CEO as it is a growing organization.
Position: Associate Director , Training
Scope of Scope of Role Responsibility
Strategy:
- Actively participate in the process of deriving corporate strategy
- Lead functional team to generating operational strategy from corporate strategy
- Lead implementation of the department’s operational strategy in line with overall corporate strategy
- Prepare departmental and programme budgets
Business Development & Programme Delivery
- Implement training related strategic alliance with partner institutions
- Design training curriculum based on need assessment of stakeholders
- Develop new business and managing existing relationships with service consumers
- Facilitate and lead discussion on applicable training programmes.
Team Development
Provide senior level relationship management support to department staff
Coach and develop staff of the department plan and coordinate the entire activities of the training department
Champion career development and learning for staff of department
Performance and Project Management
- Supervise the day to day workload and activities of staff, as well as track staff performance in the department
- Provide feedback sessions for staff of the department and identify areas in need of improvement
- Ensures effective working relationships between supervisors, co-workers, and customers
- Demonstrate project management skills and ensure that projects are delivered according time estimates and budget
- Participate on consulting, research or other projects as may be required
Qualification and Experience
- A working knowledge of the financial service sector
- A post graduate degree in finance or management sciences (or its equivalent)
- Professional membership of internationally recognized training institute/chartered institute of bankers Nigeria
- Minimum of 15 years of working experience, 7 of which must have been in the training function of a well-established corporate organization at senior management level.
- A phD in any of the social sciences will be a an added advantage.
Personality
- A self-motivated leader with demonstrable skills as listed below:
- Effective interpersonal relationship management
- Project management
- Stakeholders engagement and management
- High performance team building
- Mastery of Microsoft Office packages
- Database management.
How to Apply
To apply, kindly send in an application letter and an updated CV on or before 8th March, 2011 to:
The Manager
P.O.Box 52637
Falomo, Lagos.
