{"id":64388,"date":"2018-09-24T14:10:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T13:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/?p=64388"},"modified":"2018-09-24T13:25:26","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T12:25:26","slug":"wadhwani-foundation-recent-vacancies-2-positions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistnigeria.com\/wadhwani-foundation-recent-vacancies-2-positions.html","title":{"rendered":"Wadhwani Foundation Recent Vacancies [2 Positions]"},"content":{"rendered":"
Wadhwani Foundation \u2013 Launched in 2000 by Dr. Romesh Wadhwani, the Foundations comprising of Wadhwani Charitable Foundation and Wadhwani Operating Foundation are working with the primary mission of accelerating economic development in emerging economies through large-scale job creation with presence in Asia, Africa and Latin America operating in association with governments, corporates, mentors, investors and educational institutes. Its Initiatives are driving job creation through entrepreneurship, skills development and innovation.<\/p>\n
We are recruiting to fill the position below:<\/p>\n
Job Title:\u00a0Program Manager NEN and GSN<\/strong> Overview<\/strong> The Skills Development Network and initiative is an attempt to alleviate the skill gap in knowledge of workers while mainstreaming employability in education for national impact.<\/p>\n The Wadhwani Foundation has set to enable the education and SME eco-system to function with higher relevance, support, knowledge and know-how so that thousands of young people can develop entrepreneurial skills, able to leverage the opportunities in the country and SMEs get the necessary support and networks to grow their businesses competitively. Also to enable the Vocational & Professional education eco-system to function with higher relevance, skilling and supporting thousands of young people into entry level jobs in industries.<\/p>\n The Wadhwani Foundation (WF) works in three key ways in the different countries that it operates in:<\/p>\n This exciting role is one of high importance and impact to launch and manage the NEN and GSN initiative and will involve interface with national APEX bodies in Industry, Education and Investors, as well as Educational Partners to deliver a new paradigm of industry driven mainstream education. We are looking for smart motivated self-starters who want to make a difference at a national level. The scope is large, but the individual tasks are byte sized and doable in a systematic and organized fashion.<\/p>\n Additional Role Description<\/strong><\/p>\n More Specifically the Role may be broken into the following Key Responsibilities<\/strong> Entrepreneurship Education Network:<\/p>\n Start-up and SME Network and Support:<\/p>\n Training Industry Sector Skill Councils (and possibly Companies\/Association) Interface:<\/p>\n Qualifications, Skills & Experience<\/strong>
\nLocation:<\/strong>\u00a0Nigeria<\/p>\n
\nThe National Entrepreneurship Network endeavours to support \u2018job creation\u2019. It purports to do this by mainstreaming entrepreneurship in education for national impact and by supporting start-ups and SMEs to grow their companies.<\/p>\n\n
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\nProject Management for the GSN & NEN Program:<\/p>\n\n
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