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  • Business Development Manager, Custom Solutions, Executive Education Communications Manager Protocol Officer Faculty Recruitment Drive Managing Director, Strathmore Research and Consultancy Centre (Srcc)

    Business Development Manager, Custom Solutions, Executive Education Communications Manager Protocol Officer Faculty Recruitment Drive Managing Director, Strathmore Research and Consultancy Centre (Srcc)

    Job Description
    HR/BDM/06/2018

    REPORTING AND WORKING RELATIONSHIPS:
    Head, Customized programs
    JOB PURPOSE:
    To market and sell Executive Education Custom Solutions in liaison with the Head of Custom Solutions (tailor-made programs and consultancy solutions) while building and cultivating sustainable key relationships with potential public and commercial partners, nationally and regionally. The ideal candidate would need to have considerable experience in consultancy solutions, client advisory, proposal writing and presentation.
    Main Duties and Responsibilities:

    Sales

    Consulting, assessing and proposing tailored solutions to meet clients’ unique needs, answer to upcoming trends and promote business success of clients,
    Targeting new clients for business development and proposing new initiatives for existing clients, to increase sales opportunities and achieve personal and team financial targets,
    Developing and maintaining relationships with new and existing clients, developing industry linkages to sustain SBS as their knowledge partner in transforming Africa leaders,
    Presenting to and consulting with clients’ senior management on business trends with a view to developing effective custom solutions,
    Continually devise ways to increase customer experience and deepen client/partner relationships and maintain lasting client and partner relationships,

    Marketing

    Analyzing and managing stakeholders to maintain a close engagement and relationship with the market,
    Undertaking continuous business intelligence to understand client needs at organization, industry and country level to ensure proposal of relevant and timely executive education and consultancy solutions,
    Tracking client satisfaction with frequent client review meetings and effective evaluation of programmes and consultancy engagements.

    Operational Excellence

    Supporting technical resource persons and key experts to ensure delivery of client promise and delivery of expected outcomes to the clients,
    Initiating and driving the program design in liaison with Head of Custom Solutions, Academic directors, and programme management team. This includes designing coaching projects and other unique program features.
    Preparing internal management reports and client reports as required, to support data-driven decision making for enhanced client relations and effective process improvement.

    JOB REQUIREMENTS

    Masters’ Degree in a business related area; qualifications in Human Resource Management will be an added advantage,
    Minimum of 5 years’ relevant working experience in business development with proven experience in sales, managing client relations, key account management, direct experience in consultancy will be an added advantage,
    Team player, with ability to work with different departments within the business school, faculty and executives in various programs,
    Ability to guide senior business leaders in designing effective custom solutions which will achieve desirable business results,
    Good research, planning and reporting skills,
    Excellent business communication and etiquette skills with a flair for pitching,
    Ability to analyze data from various sources including a thorough understanding of how business works and where opportunities lie.

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  • Assistant Program Manager Database Administrator Finance Coordinator HR Assistant Program Manager

    Assistant Program Manager Database Administrator Finance Coordinator HR Assistant Program Manager

    Reporting: Program Director-BMIA Project
    Relationships And Contacts:

    Dean and members of Management Committee.
    Faculty members.
    Collaborative partners, partner business schools in Kenya and globally.
    Interdepartmental relationships with colleagues across the Business School.

    Job Purpose
    The Bloomberg Africa Media Initiative is a multi-disciplinary program launched by Michael R. Bloomberg in 2014 to advance business journalism in Africa in order to accelerate development of a globally competitive media and financial reporting industry to improve market transparency, economic growth and governance.
    The initiative provides cross-disciplinary educational programs and mid-career fellowships to increase the number of highly trained business and financial journalists, and convenes media, business and technology leaders to promote interactive dialogue and build strong relationships to enhance the quality of financial coverage.
    The Strathmore Business School, Center for Business Journalism is serving as the Secretariat responsible for the implementation of the training program in five African countries (Ghana, Zambia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Cote D’ivoire).
    Job Responsibilities

    Establish clear ownership for project tasks, ensure that team members have the tools needed, and provide timely feedback.
    Coordinate and facilitate delivery of project objectives.
    Track progress and review project tasks to make certain deadlines are met appropriately.
    Assess project issues and identify solutions to meet productivity, quality and customer goals.
    Proactively communicate project status, issues & risks to management.
    Define & maintain all implementation processes, manage implementation lifecycle; coordinate documentation when needed.
    Follow SBS policies, procedures and methodologies
    Conduct regular status meetings with all stakeholders, keeping the stakeholder’s needs and requirements continuously in view. Work collaboratively with faculty and support staff to maintain thorough knowledge of product capabilities, and to ensure that all communications between SBS and its stakeholders are precise.
    Troubleshoot technical issues when the need arises, and escalating appropriately as needed.
    Other duties may be assigned. The job description is a guide to the level and range of responsibilities the post-holder is expected to undertake initially and duties of that post may be altered from time to time to meet changing demands

    Requirements

    Bachelor’s Degree Holder
    Masters will be an added advantage
    Experience in managing Executive Education programs is desired
    Strong interpersonal and communication skills and the ability to work effectively with a wide range of
    constituencies in a diverse community
    Ability to gather data, compile information, and prepare reports.
    Program planning and implementation skills.
    Effective communication Skills

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