Head, Innovation Hubs

Responsibilities

• Design the operating model for all three hubs from the ground up: how cohorts are structured, how learning is sequenced, what job market-ready means at each level, and how graduates are assessed and certified
• Serve as the primary relationship owner with the Vice-Chancellors, deans, faculty leads, and student bodies at OAU, UNN, and ABU
• Design the engagement model that brings students from across every university faculty (engineering, sciences, humanities, business, design) into the hub and keeps them through the full cohort
• Build and manage the network of engineers, product leaders, and founders, inside Moniepoint and beyond, who mentor, assess, and hire from the hubs
• Design the facilitator model, recruit the people who teach and assess, and own the standard those facilitators hold the cohort to across all three hubs
• Own the physical footprint of each hub, manage the timelines, vendor relationships, and hub-level budgets across three sites
• Define the staffing model for each hub and recruit the on-ground team that runs them day to day
• Set and own the metrics: graduate output, job placement, programme completion, cohort quality, employer satisfaction
• Design the connective tissue between hub graduates and Moniepoint's internal pathways, so the strongest talent has a clear next step

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience overall, with at least 5 in leadership roles owning programmes, teams, and budgets end to end
• Built or led a technical training or workforce development programme at scale, ideally across multiple sites
• Taken something from zero to one - designed the model, hired the team, and held the standard
• Held institutional relationships at senior level across universities, government bodies, and industry partners
• Know how to navigate Nigerian university administration, or have done it elsewhere and can credibly do it here
• Hired and managed technical educators, and know what separates someone who can teach from someone who can teach to a standard
• Understand what good engineering education looks like and what employers in software, AI, product, and data science actually hire for
• Technical fluency to design a programme that produces hireable engineers, not credentialed graduates (do not need to write code)
• Rigorous about outcomes and impatient with programmes that look good in announcements but cannot prove what they produce
• Experience in edtech, developer education, university-industry partnerships, or workforce development is a strong signal
• Building something from scratch and owning it through to measurable outcomes is essential

Benefits

• The opportunity to shape one of the most consequential talent infrastructure investments in Nigerian technology
• A dynamic, diverse, and collaborative environment where every team member's voice is recognised and valued
• Continuous learning and career growth opportunities
• Competitive salary, individual performance bonuses, and firmwide performance bonus
• Company-covered health insurance plans
• Pension plans