Job Vacancies at Nexford University

Job Description

The Channel Marketing Manager at Nexford University is an exciting opportunity to drive growth through marketing channels and affiliates. We are looking for a highly accomplished marketing expert who can help take our brand to the next level leveraging the success we've already achieved in Nigeria. Only candidates with experience scaling highly successful brands across Nigeria will be considered for this role.

You will be leading on establishing and managing relationships with local and regional marketing channels including building a wide affiliate network - with the goal of driving learner acquisition through channels and affiliates.

This is a critical role and the ideal candidate will need to demonstrate a high level of autonomy, creativity and responsibility.  The ideal candidate will have worked on scaling a young brand locally / regionally.

Key responsibilities:

• Drive user acquisition and top-line growth through channels and affiliates
• Assist in finding new distribution channels to expand audience size and drive cost effective conversion
• Identify online and offline channel partners including digital platforms and HR leaders across large employers
• Manage and grow an existing network of individual affiliates
• Help create a measurement framework to understand marketing attribution across different channels

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• 5+ years of channel marketing experience with a highly successful local / regional brand
• Demonstrated experience in creating and executing highly effective marketing campaigns 
• Growth marketing mindset 
• Flawless spoken and written English  
• Experience writing clear and concise emails and presentations
• Experience working in different markets and sharp cultural awareness 
• A self-starter with initiative and drive, capable of executing rapidly and thriving in a demanding, result-oriented and high-paced environment  

Benefits:

• Work at a company with a social mission where you can make a real difference in the world  
• A market-competitive salary with stock options
• A friendly team in the US, UK, Nigeria, Egypt, South Africa and the Philippines 
• Contemporary collaboration tools 
• An entrepreneurial and highly stimulating environment 

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Job Description

Nexford University is looking for a Partnerships Manager to join our team in Lagos, Nigeria. This is an exciting opportunity to play a lead role in bringing high-quality affordable education to those that need it worldwide. As a next-generation university, we’re looking for innovative and strategic thinkers who are truly passionate about our mission to enable greater social and economic mobility, through education.  

The Partnerships Manager at Nexford University will lead to building new strategic partnerships and broaden current partnerships regionally with a range of stakeholders across the public and private sectors to firmly establish Nexford University as the educational partner of choice in Nigeria. The Partnerships Manager will also support regional marketing initiatives by offering local insights and managing regional marketing campaigns on an ad-hoc basis. 

Collaborating closely with the Nigeria Country Manager, this person will join a rapidly growing global team of regional managers who are each driving the objectives in our ambitious Partnerships Strategy. You will be an accomplished leader in generating and closing partnerships through effective engagement with businesses and other organizations. The ideal candidate will have an understanding of both revenue generation as well as strategic partnerships and will demonstrate the creativity and autonomy necessary to establish a thriving portfolio ranging from B2B – B2C in their region. 

The role is a high-profile external-facing position that has a high level of reputational responsibility. It requires developed account management skills and the ability to drive cross-functional working internally. This person needs to be able to think creatively to craft partnerships that meet organization and partners’ objectives and deliver ambitious revenue and reputational targets in Nigeria. 

 Salary range: NGN 1 000 000 + incentives 

Key responsibilities:

• Lead the development, implementation, and delivery of the overarching partnership strategy at NXU for Nigeria
• Generate key strategic employer partnerships for outreach, profile enhancement, and recruitment services 
• Lead the targets for the recruitment of employer-sponsored learners in the district through working with large employers, government and non-profit agencies 
• Interface and manage current partner accounts, ensuring partner satisfaction 
• Lead on regional profile building through holding regular events such as employer roundtables, NXU summits, meet-ups, etc. 
• Identify marketing opportunities and pursue them in collaboration with internal NXU stakeholders 
• Support local marketing campaigns such as digital marketing, offline campaigns, local growth experiments, user testing, and creative materials- localization and creation
• Closely track ROI on marketing initiatives and develop in-depth reports to support decision making 
• Lead on the dissemination of industry directions and hiring trends to all internal constituencies including admissions, marketing and academic faculty maximizing outreach synergies 

Ideal Candidate profile 

• A Bachelor’s degree is required, an advanced degree is preferred 
• 5+ years of prior work experience with partnership development, employer relations, and sales  
• Experience using B2B marketing tools and CRMs (such as Salesforce) to facilitate effective management reporting  
• Applicant brings with them well-established networks and industry contacts to deliver on our ambitious B2B sales targets.  
• Experience in approaching, and communicating with senior-level executives across diverse organizations  
• Good familiarity with corporate decision-making processes including budget processes, appropriation, protocols, and communications 
• Experience with the development and execution of partnership agreements  

Competencies 

• Building partnerships and trust 
• Marketing/Recruitment and Sales  
• Networking and Influencing 
• Flexibility and Stress Tolerance 
• Strategic Decision Making and Problem Solving 
• Communicating Effectively 
• Partner Cultural Awareness 
• Quality Orientation 

Compensation and Benefits 

• Work at a company with a social mission where you can make a real difference in the world 
• 10 days paid vacation leave
• 10 days paid sick leave
• 12 days paid personal development time-off, post probation
• 50% discounted tuition on all Nexford courses for your family
• A friendly team in the US, UK, South Africa, Egypt, and the Philippines 
• Office in Lekki Phase 1 
• Contemporary collaboration tools 
• An entrepreneurial and highly stimulating environment 
• An environment where you will be technically and intellectually challenged

Location and Travel 

• Likely requires some travel to other domestic markets.  
• Flexible remote work 

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Job Description

As the Nigeria Country Manager, you will be Nexford’s most senior team member based in Nigeria and heading the organization’s growth and all local operations. You will have ownership of building and executing the next phase in Nexford’s local growth strategy.

You will report to the Global Head of Partnerships, with a dotted reporting to the CEO.

As Country Manager your role will revolve around four key areas:

1. Revenue Growth: Drive local partnerships to increase B2B and B2B2C revenue. You will have 1-2 partnership managers reporting to you.
2. Brand: Act as a brand custodian in Nigeria, building and protecting brand credibility while increasing brand awareness. This will be done in collaboration with marketing and partnership teams. You will be in charge of building strategic and impactful local partnerships.
3. Learner Success: Understand the voice of customers and work with product and academic teams across the world to ensure our learning experience continuously improves based on learner needs while also leading local initiatives that drive learner retention, community building, and satisfaction.
4. Admin & Management: Local partnership team members will report directly to you while others will have a dotted reporting line. You will be responsible for managing local finance and admin-related operations, in addition to setting up physical community spaces in partnership with local organizations.

Ideal Candidate profile: 

• A Bachelor’s degree is required, an advanced degree is preferred 
• 5+ years of prior work experience with partnership development, employer relations, and sales  
• Experience using B2B marketing tools and CRMs (such as Hubspot) to facilitate effective management reporting  
• Applicant brings with them well-established networks and industry contacts to deliver on our ambitious B2B sales targets.  
• Experience in approaching, and communicating with senior-level executives across diverse organizations  
• Good familiarity with corporate decision-making processes including budget processes, appropriation, protocols, and communications 
• Experience with the development and execution of partnership agreements  

Key Competencies:

• Building partnerships and trust 
• Marketing and Sales  
• Networking and Influencing 
• Flexibility and Stress Tolerance 
• Strategic Decision Making and Problem Solving 
• Management Experience
• Communicating Effectively 
• Partner Cultural Awareness 
• Quality Orientation 

Compensation and Benefits:

• Work at a company with a social mission where you can make a real difference in the world 
• 10 days paid vacation leave
• 10 days paid sick leave
• 12 days paid personal development time-off, post probation
• 50% discounted tuition on all Nexford courses for your family
• Contemporary collaboration tools 
• An entrepreneurial and highly stimulating environment 
• An environment where you will be technically and intellectually challenged