Placement and Stakeholder Engagement Officer at Teach for Nigeria

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 Responsibilities

• 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.

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