Programme Officer

Programme Officer

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

To apply, candidates should send a copy of their Curriculum Vitae with the email heading, ‘Programme Officer’ to recruitment@tepcentre.com. Only successful applicants will be contacted.

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