Closing: Apr 10, 2024
This position has expiredPublished: Mar 26, 2024 (2 months ago)
Job Requirements
Education:
Work experience:
Language skills:
Job Summary
Contract Type:
Sign up to view job details.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in any field and strong academic track record
- Minimum of 3 years of professional working experience
- Previous experience working within a Nigerian Government Parastatal is preferred
- Experience working and living in Nigeria is preferred.
Requisite skills:
- Exceptional organization skills and strong attention to detail
- Operates with a high level of personal responsibility
- Strong work ethic with desire to go above and beyond
- Strong interpersonal relationship building skills with a variety of diverse stakeholders
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to prioritise and juggle multiple projects within tight deadlines
- Strategic and critical thinking skills so as to conceptualize multiple
- approaches to solving a problem and drawing out a clear roadmap with roles and responsibilities
- Relationship building and influencing skills so as to leverage people and relationships outcomes
- Communication skills so as to deliver compelling messages through oral and written medium to diverse stakeholders
- Ability to be highly resourceful and entrepreneurial in the face of uncertainties
- Ability to maintain a demanding travel schedule and work long hours
- Ability to engagingly present to small and large groups
- Ability to flexibly adjust strategy when unexpected obstacles emerge.
Approach to Work:
- Must have a deep understanding of and strong alignment to Teach For
- Nigeria’s mission, vision and core values
- A self-starter with initiative, confidence, drive, and flexibility to deal with unexpected situations or last-minute changes in a dynamic team
- Must show an uncommon level of personal responsibility in achieving professional goals
- Must be reflective; proactively working to grow and improve
- Able to perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
Responsibilities
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in any field and strong academic track record
- Minimum of 3 years of professional working experience
- Previous experience working within a Nigerian Government Parastatal is preferred
- Experience working and living in Nigeria is preferred.
Requisite skills:
- Exceptional organization skills and strong attention to detail
- Operates with a high level of personal responsibility
- Strong work ethic with desire to go above and beyond
- Strong interpersonal relationship building skills with a variety of diverse stakeholders
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to prioritise and juggle multiple projects within tight deadlines
- Strategic and critical thinking skills so as to conceptualize multiple
- approaches to solving a problem and drawing out a clear roadmap with roles and responsibilities
- Relationship building and influencing skills so as to leverage people and relationships outcomes
- Communication skills so as to deliver compelling messages through oral and written medium to diverse stakeholders
- Ability to be highly resourceful and entrepreneurial in the face of uncertainties
- Ability to maintain a demanding travel schedule and work long hours
- Ability to engagingly present to small and large groups
- Ability to flexibly adjust strategy when unexpected obstacles emerge.
Approach to Work:
- Must have a deep understanding of and strong alignment to Teach For
- Nigeria’s mission, vision and core values
- A self-starter with initiative, confidence, drive, and flexibility to deal with unexpected situations or last-minute changes in a dynamic team
- Must show an uncommon level of personal responsibility in achieving professional goals
- Must be reflective; proactively working to grow and improve
- Able to perform miscellaneous job-related duties as assigned.
Position Summary
- Teach For Nigeria is in search of a Placement Officer who is quick-witted and would like to take the challenge of finding placements for Fellows, establishing and maintaining relationships with stakeholders, securing agreements and ensuring that he/she can legally place fellows, and monitor administrative processes.
- The Placement & Stakeholder Engagement Officer will strive to leverage the relationship with key state stakeholders to drive broad understanding of Teach For Nigeria’s mission, impact and support key organizational goals.
- The Placement & Stakeholder Engagement Officer will report to the Head of Government Relations and Stakeholder Engagement on setting and executing a high level Government engagement strategy, Managing stakeholders and placement partnerships.
- To be successful, the Placement & Stakeholder Engagement Officer must be a strategic thinker who is able to set a bold vision, develop strategies and an opening plan to achieve this vision and skillfully achieve results.
Major Duties
- Maintain the relationship between the organization, community members and government officials.
- Establishing, nurturing and maintaining strong relationships with selected government stakeholders responsible for Fellow placement.
- Nurturing and maintaining relationships at Teach For Nigeria partner schools through consistent engagement and consultation with School Head
- Teachers, Teachers and school-level stakeholders.
- Maintain an updated database on Teach For Nigeria partner schools, including weekly progress status reports to the team lead.
- Build and maintain a comprehensive database on placement schools/communities for Teach For Nigeria that would include details such as local emergency contacts, placement history and housing constraints.
- Leading and coordinating site visits to current and potential Teach For Nigeria school Partners.
- Nurturing and maintaining relationships with key states and district education stakeholders through consistent engagements and consultations with State Education Officers, District Education Officers and local community leaders.
- Work collaboratively with the team to provide data that will inform the placing of fellows in schools in a manner that will maximize student impact.
- Work collaboratively with all necessary units as liaison between government stakeholders
- Manage relationships with placement partners
- Work with the M/E unit to establish monitoring processes to evaluate and manage school placements.
- Identify and work with relevant agencies and organizations to plan and coordinate school placements.
Applications submitted via Fuzu have 32% higher chance of getting shortlisted.