About the Job
Position: Education Relationships Lead (Fixed Term, 12 months, Full-Time)
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
ACCA is committed to a workplace culture which is inclusive, diverse, human and connected.
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 coordinates 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
Reports 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.
- Lead the identification and implementation of opportunities to grow ACCA's business through education partnerships ensuring a clear and mutually beneficial proposition.
- Identify opportunities for ACCA recognition in education and qualification frameworks, working with colleagues from global teams to leverage these.
- Determine which education partners should be prioritized both within the market and across borders, aligned to growth expectations and ACCA strategy.
- Own, monitor, and drive the achievement of key performance indicators and outcomes for the education partners.
- Personally lead relationships with key education partners, ensuring these are appropriately developed to deliver and exceed agreed KPIs and outcomes.
- Ensure that multi-level relationship plans are in place for existing and potential education partners.
- Lead the development of a community of education partners to identify and communicate insights to help improve global value propositions and optimize growth opportunities.
- Work with colleagues from other specialist teams to make high-value connections between partners and optimize the ACCA ecosystem.
- Lead the education community to ensure that global solutions, content, and expertise are leveraged and consistently implemented.
- Work with national bodies and regulators to support their efforts in improving local qualifications, thereby enhancing ACCA's market position and reputation.
- Work 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.
We strive to create an environment where you can prioritise your wellbeing and offer a competitive benefits package to help you do this. We provide an employee assistance programme and are proud to offer a financial wellbeing tool to our employees.
We are committed to equal opportunities across our recruitment activities and have a real commitment to ensuring the inclusion and well-being of all employees. We have a blended approach to working to support our employees to balance the needs of their job with other aspects of their life.
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