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| AJIRALEO TANZANIA |
AJIRA TANZANIA 2019 / NAFASI ZA KAZI 2019
Position Title: Program Manager (PM) – Wadhwani Educate, FastTrack & Opportunity
Location: Tanzania
Effort: Full-Time
Travel: Yes
Overview :
Overview :
The Wadhwani Foundation (WF) works in three key ways in the different countries that it operates in:
- Partnerships with educational institutes including Engineering and Management institutes and Colleges to provide entrepreneurship education as an integral part of the training, exposure and experience for the students, so that they are skilled entrepreneurially.
- Support Start-ups and Advantage through learning, connects and other resources for sustainability and growth.
- Develop city based entrepreneurship eco-systems with strong networks of mentors, investors, service providers and entrepreneur-peer groups that can support new start-ups and growing advantage in those cities.
This
exciting role is one of high importance and impact to launch and manage
the Wadhwani Educate, FastTrack and Skills Platform initiatives and
will involve interface with national APEX bodies in Industry, Education
and Investors, as well as Educational Partners to deliver a new paradigm
of industry driven mainstream education.
We are looking for smart motivated self-starters who want to make a
difference at a national level. The scope is large, but the individual
tasks are byte sized and doable in a systematic and organized fashion.
Additional Role Description:
The
Program Manager will own all activities related to launching and making
the Wadhwani Educate, FastTrack and Skills Platform programs in the
region successful while working with the local partners and WF team
members. This role is primarily that of a Program and Partner Manager.
Key activities will be in the area of planning, implementation
coordination and interfacing with the Engineering and Management
institutes, Entrepreneur and SME organizations, Mentor and Investor
groups. While the manager needs
to have or develop expertise in the area of entrepreneurship development
and education, the intent is to engage, and monitor individuals and
partners, working with them with WF learning and content resources etc.
so that students, start-ups and SMEs have more support. Additional
responsibility would be to monitor results including new companies
started by graduating students and growth indicators including jobs in
the companies that are supported. Will own all activities related to
launching and making the S
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program in the region successful while working with the local partners
and WF team members. This role is primarily that of a Program and
Partner Manager.
More specifically the role may be broken into the following key responsibilities:
1. Project Management for the Wadhwani Educate , FastTrack and Skills Platform Program
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Scope the Entrepreneurship development stakeholders and framework in
the country for a strong understanding of current status, challenges and
opportunities
•
Help identify the needs and define the goals and scope of the program
with clear roles and deliverables of the entities involved.
•
Work with the manager to create a detailed project plan, monitor
actions and ensure timely completion of deliverables to meet the needs.
• Liaison with all parties involved, ensuring common understanding and that deliverables meet the requirements.
•
In general, ensure WF involvement is properly utilized and resulting in
valuable deliverables that meet the objectives of the program and
initiative.
•
Scope the opportunity stakeholders and framework in the country to
develop a strong understanding of current status, challenges and
opportunities.
•
Help identify the needs and define the goals and scope of the program
with clear roles and deliverables of the entities involved.
• Create a detailed project plan, monitor actions and ensure timely completion of deliverables to meet the needs.
• Liaison with all parties involved, ensuring common understanding and that deliverables meet the requirements.
•
In general, ensure WF involvement is properly utilized and resulting in
valuable deliverables that meet the objectives of the program and WF
Skill College’s initiative.
2. WF Advantage Entrepreneurship education network
•
Responsible for developing and managing the institutions & other
partner Organizations including Entrepreneur & Startup Associations
in a given market
• Qualify and sign up relevant institutes as per target & within timelines
•
Facilitating the capacity development of member institutes –this
includes working with the head of the institution, faculty leaders, and
students to help structure, design and execute the right experiential
programs
• Facilitate access to different resources from within and outside the Wadhwani Foundation.
• Initiate and lead collaborations, networking & training programs on ground
• Identify & develop local resource teams including key faculty, mentors & entrepreneurs
• Work with individual institutions to visualize and build goals & annual road maps
• Work with the Central Team in mapping the market training needs and help implement these programs on ground
• Help administer the surveys on campuses at regular intervals
• Catalyze interest in entrepreneurship amongst students on campuses
• Drive participation for programs
3. Training Industry Sector Skill Councils (and possibly Companies/Association) Interface
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Be connected with designated points of contact from the Industry –
Companies and Associations – to facilitate an industry driven program.
•
Obtain the specific jobs and their corresponding
duties->Tasks->Skills composition – from with the industry as
defined by the government and or relevant industry sector councils (if
any).
•
Get Specification of requirements (National Occupational Standards) and
validation of curriculum/ coursework from Industry Sector Skill
councils) /Company subject matter experts.
•
If using own or specially developed curriculum, liaison between the
Education partner curriculum/coursework development and the Industry
sector skills council/companies’ point of contact
• Ensure Curriculum covers all aspects of training – Classroom instruction material, Faculty Guide, Learners/Student guide.
•
In addition, help arrange Faculty Development training through Subject
Matter Expert(s) from SSCs/Industry (with industry input/participation).
This may involve identification, networking and development of Master
Trainers who can deliver the Faculty Training courses.
•
Work with SSC/Industry to organize and deliver the training course
logistics – schedules, venue, facilities, faculty registration and
signup, etc.
•
Coordinate with all stakeholders including from industry, educational
and training institutes and government as relevant to ensure success for
the Program.
Candidate Qualifications, Skills & Experience:
• Experience with Entrepreneurial & Education ecosystem: Minimum 8 years with at least 1 years in roles leading projects and people. Experience should include interfacing with higher educational institutes, government departments and other entities. Strong analytical, conceptual and strategic planning skills. Excellent interpersonal and supervisory skills.
• Experience with College Ecosystem and Skilling: Experience in education industry and driving entrepreneurship in colleges with proven success in program management & entrepreneurial experience, having consulted and supported launch and scale several programs. Knowledge of vocational training and skilling sector.
• Strong Project Management: Strong program management skills. Ability to break up a complex deliverable into a project plan with realistic tasks. Ability to manage aggressive deadlines with ownership and required hard work to keep to deadlines.
• Customer Centricity: Very strong customer-facing skills and holistic experience in business development and corporates in driving high impact projects.
• Technology Savvy: Good knowledge of tech solutions or tech-enabled services businesses. Extensive experience in deploying and scaling technology based solutions with achievement and outcome orientation
• Academic Pedigree and experience: Good academic pedigree with minimum of Bachelors from B schools and Strong executive presence with over 7 years of work experience with strong networking and business development skills .
