We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time
Role Summary
- The Project Manager will provide overall leadership, coordination, and strategic oversight for the implementation of the programme.
- The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring that all programme components are delivered on time, within scope, and to the highest quality standards.
- The Project Manager will supervise technical and operational teams, coordinate stakeholders and
- employer partners, oversee programme performance, manage risks, ensure compliance with programme requirements, and drive achievement of training, certification, inclusion, and employment targets.
- The role requires a highly strategic leader with demonstrated experience managing large-scaleworkforce development, digital skills, employment, BPO, education, or enterprise development programmes involving multiple stakeholders and delivery locations.
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership and Programme Management:
- Provide overall leadership for programme planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting.
- Lead the execution of the programme's training-to-employment strategy and ensure alignment with programme objectives.
- Translate programme goals into detailed implementation plans, operational workplans, and performance targets.
- Ensure effective coordination between training delivery, employer engagement, placement, communications, safeguards, GESI, and MEL functions.
- Drive programme performance against beneficiary recruitment, certification, and employment targets.
Team Leadership and Supervision:
- Directly supervise programme technical and operational personnel
- Conduct regular performance reviews and provide strategic guidance to programme teams.
- Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and results delivery.
- Lead programme management meetings and implementation review sessions.
Stakeholder and Partnership Management:
- Manage relationships with government institutions, employers, BPO operators, innovation hubs, training centres, industry associations, and strategic partners.
- Lead high-level stakeholder engagement and representation of the programme at meetings, events, and consultations.
- Support employer partnership development and job placement initiatives.
- Coordinate strategic partnerships that strengthen programme sustainability and employment outcomes.
Training and Workforce Development Oversight:
- Oversee curriculum implementation and quality assurance processes.
- Ensure training pathways remain aligned with employer demand and labour market needs.
- Monitor training performance, certification outcomes, and learner progression.
- Support employer co-creation processes and workforce readiness initiatives.
Employment and Placement Oversight:
- Oversee implementation of employer engagement and job placement strategies.
- Ensure internship, apprenticeship, remote work, and employment pathways are operational.
- Monitor employment outcomes and placement targets.
- Strengthen relationships with local and international employers to increase job opportunities for graduates.
- Risk Management, Compliance and Quality Assurance
- Oversee programme risk management and mitigation measures.
- Ensure compliance with programme policies, safeguarding requirements, environmental
- and social standards, and operational procedures.
- Monitor implementation quality across all delivery locations.
- Lead corrective action planning where performance gaps are identified.
Performance Management and Reporting:
- Monitor programme progress against workplans, milestones, and performance indicators.
- Review technical reports, dashboards, and implementation updates.
- Provide strategic recommendations to improve programme effectiveness and efficiency.
- Lead the preparation of programme performance reports and implementation reviews.
Required Qualifications
Education:
- Master's Degree in Project Management, Business Administration, International Development, Public Policy, Education, Economics, Management, Human Resource Development, Technology Management, or a related field.
- A Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline with substantial senior management experience may be considered.
Professional Experience
- Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience managing large-scale programmes in workforce development, skills development, employment, education, digital economy, BPO, entrepreneurship, technology, or economic development.
- Demonstrated experience leading multi-state or national programmes involving multiple stakeholders and delivery partners.
- Experience managing complex projects with large beneficiary targets and measurable employment outcomes.
- Strong experience in stakeholder engagement, partnership development, and programme governance.
- Experience supervising multidisciplinary technical teams.
- Experience in managing programme implementation across multiple locations simultaneously.
- Experience in workforce development, BPO, digital skills, technology-enabled services, or job creation initiatives is highly desirable.
- Experience working with government agencies, private sector employers, development organisations, and industry stakeholders
Preferred Certifications:
- Project Management Professional (PMP).
- PRINCE2 Practitioner.
- Agile Project Management Certification.
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM).
- Results-Based Management (RBM) Certification.
- Monitoring and Evaluation Certification.
- Change Management Certification.
- Risk Management Certification.
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or higher.
Technical Competencies:
- Strategic programme leadership and execution.
- Workforce development and employment systems.
- BPO sector understanding and employer engagement.
- Programme planning and operational management.
- Stakeholder engagement and partnership management.
- Team leadership and performance management.
- Risk management and problem-solving.
- Results-based management.
- Budget oversight and resource allocation.
- Data-driven decision-making.