Academy Manager at Vatebra Limited

Job Objective

• Responsible for promoting the highest standard business ethos within the administrative of the academy and strategically ensures the most effective use of resources in support of the academy’s vision.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities
Leadership & Strategy:

• Responsible for driving and implementing training programmes across the Academy’s tech business areas such as Enterprise software, Cloud track, Digital business track, Big Data and Analytics, Mobility, 3D Printing , Internet of Things (IoT) and Security.
• Responsible for creating a professional body of Developers in Nigeria and Africa at large
• Responsible for organizing conferences that aligns with the Academy’s tech business areas such as hackathons and meet ups in order to bring developers and investors across the globe together
• Collaborate with owners of major technology platforms relevant to the academy globally E.g. Openstack, Liferay and MongoDB, etc.
• Create a collaborative model between academy and software outsourcing firms in order to constantly furnish software firms with top developers from the academy
• Participate in decision making and share collective responsibility for the leadership and management of the Academy.
• Contribute to the development of the Academy and the long term financial strategy for the future development of the Academy.
• Leadership and strategic management of support staff; this includes line management of a support staff, effective deployment of support staff

• dealing with all personnel issues relating to support staff including training and annual performance management

Financial Management:

• Generate revenue for the academy through training, professional membership fees, conference fees (discounted for members), conference sponsorships, and recruitment fees, meet-ups as a service platform and equity participation in start-ups.
• Monitoring and reporting on Vatebra Academy’s budget, cash flow and spend at regular intervals.
• Undertake financial benchmarking and to advise the leadership team on best value.

Administration Management:

• Lead and manage the administrative function ensuring that there are efficient administrative support systems and procedures in place for the smooth running of the Academy.
• To act as Data Protection Officer for the Academy by ensuring the Academy’s privacy notices are in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and data processing at the Academy is undertaken on a lawful basis.
• Ensuring that the Academy regularly reviews what data it holds, where the data comes from and who it is shared with.