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Consultant Manager Vacancy At Andela Nigeria

 Andela is developing a corps of high-quality technology talent across the African continent that will drive the current and future phases of tech-enabled growth around the world. With the fastest growing population and highest youth population in the world, we believe Africa is one of the greatest untapped markets for talent development.


Andela extends engineering teams with world-class software developers. We recruit the most talented developers on the African continent, shape them into technical leaders, and place them as full-time distributed team members with companies that range from Microsoft and IBM to dozens of high-growth startups. Backed by Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, GV (Google Ventures) and Spark Capital, Andela is building the next generation of global technology leaders. Passion, excellence, entrepreneurial spirit, and rejecting the status quo are just a few of the things that Andela team members have in common.

We have a vision to train 100,000 world-class developers in the next 10 years – and we want you to help make it happen. Andela Nigeria is recruiting for the following position: 

Job Position: Consultant Manager

Location: Lagos

Type: Full-time

Experience: Senior

About the Consultant Manager role
The Consultant Manager will lead, motivate and manage Andela’s Senior Technical Consultants and will aid in ensuring that Andela's Success team balances the needs of Consultants, Fellows and Clients.  She/he is passionate about Andela’s mission and technology and is able to remain flexible and wear many hats to help meet the growing and changing needs of a start up.

This position is full-time based at Andela’s office in Lagos, Nigeria.

Key Responsibilities of the Role:

To coordinate the schedules of the Senior Technical Consultants.
To ensure that all engagements are being run appropriately by the Senior Technical Consultants.
To keep the Director of Success and other stakeholders apprised of all current engagements and their status.
Motivate and develop the Senior Technical Consultants, both individually and collectively, by providing insights and advice on how best to manage their time as well as point out areas where they need to improve.
To resolve all problems as they arise by preparing solutions thereto and, where appropriate, liaising with the Director of Success for approval.
To ensure that Senior Technical Consultants meet their KPIs which include:
Conducting technical assessments of Andela developers.
Organizing and facilitating workshops to enhance Andela developers:
technical concepts in order to improve technical competency.
soft skills in order to improve their work and client relationships.
Serving as mentors to Andela developers in order to enable them to scale through difficulties in understanding specific technologies or issues faced with peers or clients regarding soft skills.
Speaking at events in order to promote Andela


Qualifications and Characteristics:

Bachelor’s degree
At least 5 years of experience in team operations
Extremely well-organized, with strong attention to details
Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships with remote staff.
Ability to build effective working relationships with key stakeholders
Strong written and oral communications skills with the ability to converse with all levels of the organization
Strong logistical management and analytics skills
Strong proficiency with Google Apps: Calendar, Hangouts, Docs, Sheets
Strong motivator, driven to achieve personal and team targets.
Strong coaching skills and capability to develop a team.
Be a nice person – we have a strict no jerks policy at Andela
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Method of Application

Interested Persons should click here to apply

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