Candidate Profile
Qualifications & Experience:

• Master’s Degree in Social Sciences or related discipline
• At least 7+ years of related professional experience with increasing leadership responsibility and supervision of colleagues.
• Understanding of the philanthropic landscape across Africa.
• Experience working with and managing partners across countries.
• Experience in generating innovative ideas for and planning programmatic content, developing curriculum to achieve learning outcomes, and working with presenters, speakers and facilitators.
• Experience planning, organizing and executing professional events.
• Experience managing fellowship programs.
• Experience overseeing research projects.
• Experience creating targeted outreach and marketing strategies to engage program attendees and ensure good turn-out.
• Ability to speak French is an added advantage.

Skills & Competences:

• A commitment to the organization’s mission and vision.
• Entrepreneurial and innovative approaches to opportunity development.
• Ability to work in a start-up, fast-paced environment and handle unexpected events.
• Demonstrated skill in coordinating the complex details required to produce content-rich meetings.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
• The ability to work with diverse constituencies, maintain diplomacy, and negotiate successfully.
• Excellent project management expertise, including ability to develop timelines, manage multiple stakeholders, and execute on time.
• Good knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures.
• Ability to integrate technology creatively and effectively into program content and into program advertising and evaluation.
• Experience in successfully and sensitively facilitating complicated relationships with high-profile individuals and organizations.
• Experience with evaluation, especially the evaluation of learning outcomes.
• Ability to research and synthesize information quickly and apply it to programs.
• Willingness to work on a flexible schedule and travel is critical.
• Commitment to high integrity, ethics and professionalism.
• Ability to operate effectively both as part of a team and independently.
• Ability to work under pressure and prioritize competing tasks.
• A result-oriented person passionate about making a real impact and change in Africa and naturally driven by that pursuit.

Attitude:

• Energetic, proactive approach to work.
• A self-starter who enjoys researching and generating new ideas.
• An enterprising attitude that is quick to search out alternative solutions to needs or problems.
• Flexible and able to adjust to shifting priorities and timelines.
• Exhibits a helpful behaviour beyond strict job requirements.
• A supervisor who enjoys mentoring and developing staff.
• Flexible, positive attitude towards working in a small but growing organization.
• Confident

Application Closing Date
4th June, 2022.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter to: vacancies@africanpf.org using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Selection Process

• All candidates will receive an update regarding their application after the closing date. We advise candidates to add the role email to their safe senders list and regularly  check their spam folder.

Note

• Please, consider that all applications for this position will be directly managed by the African Philanthropy Forum.
• Please provide a CV and Cover Letter in two different documents, which should be prepared before applying as they will be considered in the application process.
• The Cover Letter should be no more than two pages long and explain why you are interested in this post and how your skills and experience make you a good fit.
• The documents should be saved in PDF in the following format:
  • Your First Name
  • Your Last Name
  • Document Name
  • Date (mmyy)
  • APF-Program Manager. For example: Pat JonesCV-052022-APF-Program Manager or Pat Jones-CoverLetter052022-APF-Program Manager

Hot Job Vacancies Trending Now

• sss recruitment
• npf recruitment
• nigerian navy recruitment portal
• nigerian immigration recruitment
• civil defence recruitment portal
• nigerian prison service recruitment portal
• nnpc recruitment portal
• cbn recruitment
• nigeria prison recruitment
• customs recruitment
• lagos state local government recruitment
• inec adhoc staff recruitment
• ecowas recruitment application form
• nimc recruitment
• lagos state teachers recruitment
• airforce recruitment portal
• npower recruitment portal
• federal civil service recruitment portal
• fire service recruitment application form

2.) Communications Manager

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Employment: Full Time