Chief of Staff at the Bulb Africa

The Bulb Africa is a platform for African creatives to turn tech ideas into business realities. We run accelerator programs, incubate entrepreneurs and provide training to help them launch, grow and sustain businesses.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Chief of Staff

Location: Lagos

Responsibilities

• Oversee strategic business initiatives from development through successful execution under the guidance of leadership and departmental heads
• Be the sounding board for senior leadership on company strategic initiatives and leading implementation of the same.
• Support daily operations through collaboration with the team and department leaders, performing an array of administrative tasks from managing calendars and generating correspondence.
• Assist the CEO and executive team members to determine and prioritize business strategies based on their schedules
• Represent senior leadership in meetings, preparing minutes of meetings and helping to organise the schedule and calendar for optimum efficiency.
• Assist and communicate with executives in decision-making, program management, and initiative implementation
• Improve current processes and coordinate organizational procedures for optimized efficiency and productivity
• Build and develop relationships with all employees of the companies for increased efficiency and effective responsiveness into existing operations, and help to define new operational strategies, working with our team leads and executive teams on all projects.
• Serve as a subject matter expert, handling inquiries and developing action plans to address them, and assisting with the preparation and dissemination of communications.
• Provide administrative and operational support to the CEO.
• Manage the preparation process for analyses and presentations for various internal, external and board meetings.
• Build strong relationships with other departments to allow for cross-functional partnership.
• Act as an extension of the CEO in appropriate settings to oversee meetings or entire projects.
• Oversee strategic business initiatives from development through successful execution under the guidance of senior leadership and departmental heads
• Act as an advisor to the CEO on both strategic and tactical matters.

Your Requirements

• Hold minimum a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, Administration or related discipline.
• Have a minimum of five (5) years of relevant and practical experience, in an executive office as an Executive Assistant, Chief of Staff or in a support function.
• MS Excel and Google Spreadsheets (Budget prep/forecasting for projects)
• MS PowerPoint (visually appealing modern slides).
• MS Word (Report formatting, alignment, referencing and all the works
• Domain experience in Tech or EdTech, Innovation and Entrepreneurship ecosystem (plus if you’ve done specific projects for international development bodies)
• Great presentation skills to C-level

Other Key Requirements:

• Essentially a doer, innovative and self-driven individual.
• Ability to present multiple solutions and recommendations to an identified problem that has been flagged and aligning on chosen best route to go as opposed to presenting problems to senior leadership only.
• Strong research and report writing skills. e.g., thought leadership articles, feasibility studies report, market assessment with deep research insights and analysis.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.