Job Objective
TEP Centre is a pioneer in the emerging field of Education Partnership, specialising in the research, design, implementation, support, and evaluation of education programmes, projects, and initiatives across the public, private and non-profit sectors. We seek to fill the role of Programme Officer – Business Development and Partnership.
The ideal candidate will have strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills and a demonstrable ability to plan and implement projects from inception to completion. The successful candidate will coordinate the core implementation teams responsible for seamlessly delivering all the organisation’s projects.
Job Title: Programme Officer
Department: Consultancy TEP Centre is a pioneer in the emerging field of Education Partnership, specialising in the research, design, implementation, support, and evaluation of education programmes, projects, and initiatives across the public, private and non-profit sectors. We seek to fill the role of Programme Officer – Consultancy & Advisory.
Reports to: Programme Director
Key Roles and Responsibilities
The Programme Officer will be responsible for:
- Collaborate across all the units in the organisation to implement projects/ programmes
- Researching, planning, and organising the annual Education Innovation Summit (NEDIS), and community engagement.
- Develop sponsorships and partnerships strategy, logistics, and speaker management.
- Develop and maintain relationships with key education sector partners in government and within the international donor community.
- Develop knowledge products in specific areas of research assigned, development of toolkits, manuals, and activity reports.
- Preparing and making presentations on behalf of the organisation and unit from time to time
- Research and identify new business opportunities – including new markets, growth areas, trends, customers, partnerships, products, and services – or new ways of reaching existing markets eg. Consultancy; Training (Program, Finance, and Auditing, etc), and other services
- Develop and implement an organisational business development and funding strategy for TEP programmes
- Maintaining excellent relationships with partners, vendors, customers
- Managing third-party contributions to the programme, and communications with all stakeholders.
Technical and Behavioural competencies
- Organised and able to participate in and lead physical and virtual teams
- Proven ability to work in a multi-disciplinary team with respect for diversity
- Team player with effective leadership, interpersonal and communication skills, and able to build value-adding relationships with stakeholders at all levels across the public, private and civil society sectors
- Excellent analytical skills with advanced proficiency in systematic writing written and spoken English
- Advanced experience and proficiency in writing for professional and academic purposes e.g scholarships, grants, proposals, technical reports, workplan
- Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling programmes
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite or related software.
- Support in planning, monitoring, and controlling programmes
- Excellent in creating project implementation processes.
- Good knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures
- Good knowledge of programme and project management tools and softwares like Gantt chart, Asana, project, etc
- Good knowledge of budgeting and resource allocation procedures
Experience/Qualification
- Post-secondary education from a recognised university in a field such as Education, Research, Development, Social Work, or any other relevant field
- Experience in working on education, development, and/or donor/grant-funded programmes will be an added advantage
- Multilingual speaker desirable: ability to speak Hausa, Ibo, or Yoruba is an added advantage
- Based in Lagos and willing to travel nationally and internationally
Benefits:
- Hybrid work mode: we work 4 days remotely and one day on-site
- Health coverage: medical insurance for staff and dependents (spouse and up to 4 children), health and wellness awareness
- Training opportunities: we encourage personal development and provide learning platforms to help team members grow and thrive in their career
- Team events: we cultivate team building through social events and happy hours