Education Relationships Lead at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)

The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) is the global body for professional accountants with over 200,000 fully-qualified members and 486,000 students worldwide - and they're among the world's best-qualified and most highly sought-after accountants.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Education Relationships Lead

Job Requisition ID: R5418
Location: Nigeria
Job type: Full Time

Job Description

• We’re currently looking for an Education Relationships Lead for a Fixed Term Contract of 12 months on a full-time basis. 
• This position sits within the Relationship team, based in our Abuja, Nigeria office
• This role is accountable for the identification and development of high impact partnerships with universities and learning providers resulting in strong recruitment, progression, retention and education outcomes in line with ACCA’s growth and brand objectives.
• Typically the role leads on education relationships for a specified market or market cluster.  
• The role leads and co-ordinates a community of Business Relationship Managers and Executives in the development of existing and potential education partnerships – this may but does not always involve line management of the resource

The Job
Reporting to Country Head Nigeria, on a day-to-day basis, you’ll be involved in the following:

• Lead the creation and execution of the engagement plan for education partnerships in order to deliver agreed KPIs and outcomes
• Leads the identification and implementation of opportunities to grow ACCA’s business through education partnerships ensuring a clear and mutually beneficial proposition
• Identifies opportunities for ACCA recognition in education and qualification frameworks, working with colleagues from global teams to leverage these  
• Aligned to growth expectations and ACCA strategy, determines which education partners should be prioritized both within the market and across borders
• Owns, monitors and drives the achievement of key performance indicators and outcomes for the education partners
• Personally leads relationships with key education partners, ensuring these are appropriately developed to deliver and exceed agreed KPIs and outcomes
• Ensures that multi-level relationship plans are in place for existing and potential education partners
• Leads the development of a community of education partners to identify and communicate insights to help improve global value propositions and optimize growth opportunities
• Works with colleagues from other specialist teams to make high value connections between partners and optimize the ACCA ecosystem
• Leads the education community to ensure that global solutions, content and expertise are leveraged and consistently implemented
• Works with national bodies and regulators to support their efforts in improving local qualifications, thereby enhancing ACCA’s market position and reputation
• Works with education partners to ensure readiness for changes to the ACCA qualification and other products and services

The Person
We’re looking for someone who has:

• Demonstrable experience in business development and relationship management ideally in an education environment
• In depth understanding of the financial education and skills landscape
• In depth understanding of ACCA’s qualification, products and services
• Ability to lead and inspire a community of business relationships employees
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to build long term, high quality, trusted relationships up to and including board level
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, both written and oral
• Excellent networking, influencing and negotiation skills
• Highly motivated, proactive and enthusiastic with the ability to plan and organize work to meet stretching targets
• A global perspective – experience of working in or with an international organisation.

Application Closing Date
30th April, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online