Who is Spire?
Spire is a unique further education organization tackling the massive challenge of youth unemployment in Africa.
Spire is a unique further education organization tackling the massive challenge of youth unemployment in Africa.
This video best captures
some of the impact we have had to date.
A manager of one of our recent graduates said: “one month at Spire is equivalent to one year of experience at a good company.” The same goes for working here.
A manager of one of our recent graduates said: “one month at Spire is equivalent to one year of experience at a good company.” The same goes for working here.
We challenge our students to grow,
adapt and realize their potential and we challenge ourselves to do the same. As
a rapidly growing start-up, theses are exciting times, not just for the
organisation, but for our team too.
We practice what we preach and give
every member of staff the ability to shape their own future as well as the
future of the students we serve.
Job Title: Director of Programme Delivery
Job Title: Director of Programme Delivery
Who are we looking for? We are looking for driven individuals with a track
record of exceptional results in demanding environments to join us in a
critical leadership role.
Our Director of Programme Delivery
will lead the delivery of our unique learning experiences, including supporting
and developing our coaches, managing seamless operations for hundreds of
trainees on a large campus, and constantly improving the programme to ensure
trainees learn and secure jobs.
The Director will manage a team of
10-20 high-performing professionals and will report to Spire’s Chief Academic
Officer.
The ideal candidate will have had extensive experience doing the following:
The ideal candidate will have had extensive experience doing the following:
- Building and leading teams that dramatically
exceed performance expectations
- Managing complex systems requiring
simultaneously executing many different priorities, from tiny details to
major programme improvements.
- Developing and coaching individuals to realize
their full potential
- Building and leading a data-driven continuous
improvement system to significantly improve results
But that’s not all. At Spire we believe
that culture and people are the two most important of great organizations so we
are looking for people who are willing to give their all to achieve our mission
and help build our exceptional team.
Specifically, we are looking for
people who are true servant leaders.
We want people who lead by getting
their hands dirty and who have the humility to know their weaknesses and
empower their team to lead as much as possible.
To join our team, you should also have:
To join our team, you should also have:
- A passion for learning and an interest in new
methods that could dramatically improve educational outcomes
- A love of fast-paced, autonomous working
environments
- An ability to understand and work with people
to create a happy team
- An eye for creative problem solving and
working with limited resources
More About Us
- We are in high demand: more than 3,000 young
people have applied for the first spots in our programmes and dozens of
leading companies have been recruiting our graduates
- Our leadership has spent decades working and
training in top institutions like McKinsey, the Clinton Foundation, and
Harvard Business School and that experience helps to shape Spire’s model.
- We are a lifestyle, not a job: you will be
challenged every day and, as a result, you will grow more and feel you
have had more impact on the world that at any other point in your life
How to Apply
Apply at our Resumator site here: http://goo.gl/5WJSOm
Job Title: Digital Learning Production Manager
As a Digital Learning Production Manager…
…You’ll be:
As a Digital Learning Production Manager…
…You’ll be:
- A great communicator: You’ll be able to
explain complex ideas concisely and clearly. You’ll also be able to
communicate great ideas visually, be it on posters, websites, social media
or anywhere else needing creative and visual flair.
- A great project manager: You’ll be able to
keep track of and plan many different priorities that need to be completed
at the same time and coordinate actions among many different people. You
will be great at building and running systems for storing piles of
information so they can be retrieved at a moment’s notice.
- Able to multitask and cope with pressure:
You’ll be flexible enough to deal with the changes of plan &
unexpected tasks that crop up in a fast-growing company like Spire.
You’ll be good at managing your time and won’t get stressed by running
lots of different pieces of work simultaneously.
- Willing to work around the clock: This isn’t a
9-5 job. Sometimes you’ll be reporting live from one of our innovation
events or answering questions over a weekend.
- Detail oriented: You actually care whether
your emails are spelled properly and capitalised correctly. You
notice when other people don’t do this. It will annoy you to see
small details like this not taken care of.
You’ll have:
- A real interest in education &
professional growth: You’ll be passionate about helping people learn new
skills, develop fantastic careers and become the best possible versions of
themselves.
- 1-5 years of experience: In project
management, production and/or communications roles that involve organising
and executing complex processes to produce creative content for business
purposes.
- Versatility with production: You’re passionate
about photography and/or videography. You regularly experiment with
different cameras and equipment and know how to make the most of limited
equipment.
- Good computer & graphics skills: You’ll be
very adept with Excel, PowerPoint & Word. You love playing
around with visual editing programmes like Final Cut, Illustrator and
Photoshop. Good working knowledge of Google Docs will be a plus.
- A hunger to grow: You’ll be looking to learn a
lot & quickly. You aren’t afraid to try things & make
mistakes because you know that failing is the best way to learn.
And things you’ll do as part of the
job will include:
- Building and managing the processes and
schedule for the production of all content for Spire’s innovative online
learning experiences.
- Coordinating production activities across a
range of people, from internal Spire experts to managers and leaders at Spire’s
partner companies.
- Running video production processes end to end;
getting a brief, storyboarding, running pre-production meetings, pitching
for resources, filming and post-production.
- Gaining approvals for all content so that it
not only matches your high standards but also the standards of our
learning design and marketing teams.
- Creating and running a flawless system for
storing and using all the material Spire creates for its online courses
- Integrating digital materials into Spire’s
online courses, working closely with Spire’s global technology partners
- Developing new approaches to improving the
content in Spire’s online courses and building and testing them with
Spire’s learning design experts
About us:
- We’re taking on one of the biggest problems in
the world: youth unemployment is soaring and businesses are starved for
skills
- We’re a social enterprise with multi-year seed
funding already secured
- We received over 3,000 applications for our
first 40 student places and have been written up in the international
press and more recently, in the Daily Nation & on CNBC
- Our leadership has spent decades working
across East Africa with leading institutions such as the Clinton
Foundation, McKinsey, and Partners in Health. We believe there are
two things that drive game-changing organisations: great people and great
culture
- We’re a lifestyle, not a job: working at
Spire, you’ll be stretched every day and will feel you’re having had more
impact on the world that at any other point in your life
How to Apply
Apply at our Resumator site here: http://goo.gl/LcvzeT
