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  • Posted: Mar 26, 2024
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • We recruit Nigeria's most promising future leaders from varied disciplines to teach in Nigeria's underserved schools in low-income communities through a highly selective, two-year fellowship. The Teach For Nigeria fellowship is a transformational leadership program that equips Fellows with transferable leadership skills to effect change beyond the classrooms...
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    Placement and Stakeholder Engagement Officer

    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

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    Method of Application

    Please apply by sending your CV and a cover letter to careers@teachfornigeria.org

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