Head, Innovation Hubs

Moniepoint Group
Lagos
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Strategic leadership","Stakeholder management","Program design","Outcomes orientation","Cross-functional collaboration"]

Design and launch innovation hubs at three Nigerian universities, creating the operating model, cohort structure, learning sequence, and assessment standards that produce job-market-ready technical talent. Own strategic university relationships, cross-faculty student engagement, and an industry mentorship pipeline. Build and lead facilitator teams and on-ground operations across three sites while setting outcomes and accountability for graduate output, completion, and placement, including integration into Moniepoint pathways.

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Moniepoint Group
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Head, Innovation Hubs

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Job Summary

Design and launch innovation hubs at three Nigerian universities, creating the operating model, cohort structure, learning sequence, and assessment standards that produce job-market-ready technical talent. Own strategic university relationships, cross-faculty student engagement, and an industry mentorship pipeline. Build and lead facilitator teams and on-ground operations across three sites while setting outcomes and accountability for graduate output, completion, and placement, including integration into Moniepoint pathways.
Location: Lagos
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Design the operating model for all three hubs, including cohort structure, learning sequencing, graduation standards, and assessment/certification.
  • •Own primary university relationships with vice-chancellors, deans, faculty leads, and student bodies across OAU, UNN, and ABU.
  • •Build the cross-faculty engagement model that brings students from every faculty into the hubs and retains them throughout the cohort.
  • •Create and manage the industry and mentorship pipeline of engineers, product leaders, and founders who mentor, assess, and hire from the hubs.
  • •Own infrastructure, operations, staffing models, and hub-level budgets across three sites while tracking metrics for placement, completion, and employer satisfaction.

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsurancePension

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of experience overall, including at least 5 years in leadership roles owning programmes, teams, and budgets end to end.
  • •Built or led a technical training or workforce development programme at scale, taking it from zero to one (designed the model, hired the team, and held the standard).
  • •Held senior institutional relationships across universities, government bodies, and industry partners; able to navigate Nigerian university administration.
  • •Designed programmes with technical fluency so graduates are hireable by employers in software, AI, product, and data science.
  • •Experience in edtech, developer education, university-industry partnerships, or workforce development, with measurable outcomes across multiple sites.
Experience:EdtechDeveloper educationWorkforce developmentUniversity-industry partnerships
Skills:Strategic leadershipStakeholder managementProgram designOutcomes orientationCross-functional collaboration
Languages:English

Company Brief

Moniepoint Group
Provides digital payments, merchant services, agent banking, card issuance, and business banking solutions across Nigeria and other African markets, serving SMEs, merchants, and financial institutions with technology-first transaction and banking infrastructure.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Lagos, Nigeria
Founded: 2015
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