Vacancy for a Senior Relationships Manager at Girl Effect

Employment Nigeria 26-Jan-2018 ABUJA , Administrative NGO

Girl Effect, a not for profit girl child focused human development organisation. We drive behaviour change by harnessing media in innovative ways and building social networks to shift girls perceptions of themselves and how others value them.

POSITION : Senior Relationships Manager

Description

TEGA - Technology Enabled Girl Ambassadors are currently active in 5 countries - Nigeria, Rwanda, Malawi, India and the US. This year TEGA is also launching into Bangladesh. With the exception of Nigeria, these networks are new and predominantly serving Girl Effect’s internal research needs.

Nigeria is TEGA’s most established network, with TEGA operations present in Kano, Borno and Lagos. The strategy moving forward is to turn these networks into busy, commercially successful research operations, serving the needs of like-minded development and private sector organisations.

Requirements

Culturally aware and respectful - curious and sensitive about the cultures in which we operate
Ability to work effectively in multicultural teams with varying expertise, skills and backgrounds
Adaptable - able to work in complex, unfamiliar and changing environments
Excellent critical analysis and thinking skills
Positive, energetic, can-do attitude
Clear interest in working in developing countries
Have signigficant managerial experience gained from working within either the technology, media or development sector
Experience and success in growing a new innovation / small operation into a successful, commercial business.
Experience working within the global south / developing world.
Ability to communicate and build strong relationships with senior stakeholders, clients and investors.
You'll need to be someone who thrives in being part of a team, who often break new ground and invent new and disruptive ways of working.
Experience of managing a team
The ability to think and operate at a strategic level
A motivational, thoughtful leader
A collaborative team player
Commitment to realizing the potential of girls and to the vision and values of Girl Effect.

Responsibilities

The key year 1 objective for this role will be to localise and implement TEGA’s global FY18 strategy, by evolving the TEGA Nigeria operations into established commercially successful operations serving the research needs of Girl Effect and like-minded, mission aligned external partners from the public and private sectors.
TEGA’s legal and governance procedures and policies
The pricing model for TEGA’s internal (Girl Effect), Public and Private sector clients
The operational model for launching new TEGA networks
The process for conducting a research project - ensuring all projects are delivered on brief, on time and budget
Ensure continuous positive relationships with existing partners
Develop fruitful and positive relationships with new partners, finalising contracts efficiently and ensuring training needs are identified and fulfilled to facilitate adherence to our policies e.g. Safeguarding.
The process for maintaining the safety of the TEGAs and respondents and ensuring the quality of the research output
Managing and supporting the TEGA Nigeria team, ensuring that all team members are clear on their roles and delivering on their objectives
Sharing local learnings to help shape and strengthen the global TEGA operation
Sharing learnings and opportunities with the other Girl Effect products to catalyse integration.
Participate in all strategic and programme planning, budget re-forecasting, training, team building and related activities of the Girl Effect Nigeria team and contribute to the overall development of the organisation.

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