Senior Director, Group at NewGlobe

Job Title: Senior Director, Group Nigeria

Location: Lagos

  About NewGlobe:

NewGlobe supports visionary governments to transform public education systems, the cornerstone of a prosperous, equitable, and peaceful society. With a comprehensive system transformation platform and data-driven educational services, NewGlobe delivers rapid and dramatic improvements in learning outcomes at state and nationwide scale. Through building impactful partnerships and programmes, NewGlobe ensures that all children have access to an education that will develop their full potential and create a foundation for growth and prosperity.

Qualification for the Vacancy

• Bachelor’s Degree essential, MBA (or Master’s) would be preferred.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience working in project management and design in developing countries, preferably including experience in the state or country to which you will be assigned.
• At least 5 years of management experience, including direct supervision of professional and support staff and assembling teams working in multi-faceted roles including field based roles.
• A proven track record of excelling in the leadership of operational teams, as well as in design-thinking, process and system design and application, managing complex and inter-related functions, as this will be critical overseeing a large scale school system transformation.
• Prior experience within a fast-paced, high-growth, metric-driven operational organization will be an advantage.
• Strong management skills, leadership qualities, professional reputation, ability to build or access key contacts within the Ministry of Education or equivalent local and state regulatory bodies.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with government representatives, for-profit private sector entities, local community organizations, donors, consortium members and other stakeholders, at national and sub-national levels.
• Respect and sensitivity towards cultural, gender, ethnicity and religious diversity.
• Maturity and confidence in dealing with high ranking officials of government institutions, international institutions and non-government institutions.
• Demonstrated excellent communications and writing abilities and superior interpersonal and cross-cultural communication skills.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience in building the Ministry of Education (or other relevant Government entity) and devolved structures capacity in developing and realizing education strategic plans to provide quality Education services is a plus.
• Passion for our vision of democratizing the right for all children to succeed.
• Local knowledge from operating in the South East or South West region, preferably with government stakeholders and ability to speak the local language (Igbo, Yoruba).

 How to Apply for the Vacancy

Interested and qualified candidates should: Click here to apply online

 Application Deadline

Not Specified.