Vacancies: Consultant (Manager Level), Executive/ Technical Assistant, Project Coordinator
The following vacancies are available within a private group of companies located in Lagos.
Position: Consultant (Manager Level)
The company is an educational consulting firm with national coverage and growing beyond Nigeria in 2012 now seeks a consultant at the Manager Level to join its team in Lagos.
The Consultant will oversee research and consulting activities and is also expected to assist in the development of new business in Nigeria and beyond.
Requirements:
- A proven track record in tendering and delivering large- scale multi-donor funded projects in Education and Training.
- Ability to draft detailed proposals as part of the tendering process
- Previous experience as well as a good understanding of the Nigeria education sector is required,
- Experience in curriculum and course development for training
- Good stakeholder and syndication skills as well as the ability to engage with senior policy makers and stakeholders,
- Previous managerial experience including staff responsibility,
- Previous project management exposure (certification will be an advantage).
- Excellent academic qualifications (Minimum Masters Level – in education or business. An MBA will be an advantage).
- Excellent communication and in particular he/she must have good report writing skills Working knowledge of French would be desirable.
This role will ideally suit a self starter and dynamic professional who is happy to work as part of a small team.
Position: Executive/ Technical Assistant
Requirements:
- A competent professional preferably with a business background and educated to Masters Level is required to work with a driven senior executive (entrepreneur) with diverse interests in Education, Consulting and Not for Profit, etc).
- This person is expected to be highly versatile across business sectors and exposed to international best practice in the business arena.
- He or She will assist with the various aspects of the business affairs of the senior executive as well as manage aspects of the senior executive’s family office.
- Good working knowledge of project management Company secretarial exposure (Optional) Fantastic communication skills (Oral & Written)
- Competent user of MS Office including PowerPoint, Excel and MS Project
- Working knowledge of French will be an advantage
- Problem solver – Ability to analyse constructively and be a Problem Solver.
Position: Project Coordinator
A project coordinator is required to manage and coordinate project activities of a newly established Not for Profit organisation.
This person is expected to manage and coordinate intervention programmes of the organisation
Requirements:
- Degree educated
- Previous experience with NGOs and/or Not for Profit organisations
- A natural passion to work with the less privileged
- Must be computer literate
- Must have good communication and interpersonal skills
- This role will ideally suit an individual with a few years experience that is willing to grow in this sector.
Mode of Application
Interested applicants should forward a cover letter indicating their job reference stating the following.
- Current job (if employed) and benefits
- Reason of interest in the advertised positions
- What he or she will bring into the organisation
- Outline their individual strengths and weaknesses
The cover letter and the recent CV should be forwarded via electronic mail to Emmanuel.o@xiomleam.com and the job reference indicated in the e-mail subject title.
Application closes on 14th February, 2012.
