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The British Council is the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities. We create friendly knowledge and understanding between the people of the UK and other countries. We do this by making a positive contribution to the UK and the countries we work with – changing lives by creating opportunities, building connections and engendering trust.

1). Project Manager, English Programmes

Locations: Abuja, Kano or Lagos, Nigeria

Pay Band: 6

Contract Type: Two (2) Year Fixed Term Contract

Role Purpose

  • Implementation of projects with a low level of complexity funded by the British Council or by another client or funding mechanism.
  • Leads the successful delivery of a range of projects from start to finish including managing the contract or project plan, managing client or internal stakeholders, successfully achieving reporting and meeting compliance standards.
  • Or works within a larger programme or multi-country programme on a particular component.

Main Accountabilities
Relationship & Stakeholder management:

  • Has relationships with delivery partners and stakeholders within the country and is able to procure services and contract delivery partners.
  • Holds suppliers to account for delivering against the contract.
  • Build strong internal relationships and networks.

Commercial and Financial Management:

  • Ensure sound financial planning, working closely with finance teams to ensure British Council and client financial year plans are up to date.
  • Ensure accurate and timely monthly (re)forecasting is in place,  by running regular reports in the SAP system on actuals, monitoring outstanding purchase orders, reviewing commitments, analysing and commenting on reasons for variances to plan and recommending corrective actions.
  • Monitoring monthly finances, including correct expenditure, ensuring the P2P process is being followed and correcting any errors.
  • Lead on British Council, partner or client reporting (including, with Finance Manager, financial reporting) and ensure reports are delivered on time, to budget and to a high standard.
  • Compliance with BC financial policies and procedures.

Project Management:

  • Contributes to the development of, owns and delivers on Project Management Plan
  • Identifies risks in a project or programme and puts together mitigation strategies with SRO
  • Responsible for internal and client, procurement, contracting, compliance and reporting pm
  • Checks on and reports on compliance
  • Manages procurement on a project/programme
  • Responsible for data management  including timely data entry, quality assurance of data, undertaking basic analysis of monitoring data, and developing progress reports to meet funding needs
  • Undertaking programme-specific data collection as needed. This includes working with colleagues to identify indicators and tools for data collection, quality assuring all data, and undertaking basic analysis.

Role-specific Knowledge and Experience
Essential Requirements:

  • Experience in managing projects from start to finish and familiarity with project life cycles.
  • Understanding of procurement, evaluation and reporting requirements of projects.
  • Proven experience in managing project finances.
  • Experience in managing stakeholders
  • Project management qualification desirable.
  • Experience working in project or programme management.
  • Experience in using technology in project delivery.
  • Good understanding and experience in supporting monitoring and evaluation.

Desirable:

  • Foundation-level Project Management certificate.

Further Information:

  • The role could require some domestic and international travel as required by the programme and some out-of-hours and evening work responding to or driven by programme/portfolio needs
  • Language requirements: Strong written and oral English communication skills.
  • The role holder must have existing rights to live and work in the country the role is based.

Remuneration
NGN 10,989,828.00 per annum.

Application Closing Date
6th March, 2023 at 23:59 East Africa Time

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2). Information Records & Data Manager, Nigeria

Location: Abuja or Lagos, Nigeria
Contract Type: Indefinite Contract
Pay Band: 6

Role Purpose

  • The Information Records & Data Manager will act in a dual role to support the British Council’s regulatory compliance and reputation by providing professional and business assurance particularly in the fields of:
    • Data Protection and Compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Nigerian Data Protection Regulation (NDPR)
    • Records Management
    • Information Security & Governance
    • Knowledge Management

Main Accountabilities

  • Increasingly, as we engage with larger audience numbers and develop income-generating partnerships with partner organizations, we generate and handle larger amounts of data and information on our customers, our products, employees, and our partners.
  • We need to ensure the protection of data, and minimize the risk associated with managing and holding information, while at the same time becoming more effective at utilizing and sharing it. The priorities of this post are to:
    • Sustain standards, guidelines, and procedures aligned with good national and international practice and legislation to support efficiency and compliance within the business
    • Establish a robust governance structure for managing information risks and increase awareness about the risks we face, through briefings, trainings, and guidance
    • Increase the leverage of the British Council’s information assets for business use
    • Continue the work needed to achieve the required Country Information Assurance Maturity Model (CIAMM) framework maturity levels in Nigeria and ensure that measures to develop Information Governance & Security (IG&S) are embedded in the business.
  • The role will be responsible for ensuring the implementation of the agreed practices within Nigeria and collaborating with the Central Information Governance and Risk Management team, Group Data Protection Officer, and other Information Management Focal Points across Sub Sahara Africa.
  • Acts as an intermediary between relevant stakeholders (e.g. supervisory authorities, data subjects, and business units within the organization).

Data Protection:

  • Ensure adherence to the GDPR and NDPR (the “Regulations”), relevant data privacy instruments, and data protection directives of the British Council
  • Provide advice where requested as regards the data protection audits/impact assessment and monitor its performance
  • Report to the Group Data Protection Officer on activities that impact the British Council’s compliance with the NDPR, GDPR, and global data protection policies.;

Records Management:

  • Ensure records retention and disposal policy are applied in a way consistent with corporate policy
  • Ensure security classifications are applied in a way consistent with corporate policy
  • Maintain and control the development of a records classification plan
  • Support teams in the setup of project information management plans and retention schedules
  • Support Regional Information & M&E Advisor to develop and maintain close working relationships with the regional network of focal points
  • Develop and implement a business recovery plan and support regional Information and M&E Advisor in developing a regional plan, working with relevant regional / country staff
  • Support implementation of specific projects and related activities which support strategy development in areas of sensitivity and stringent regulation.

Information Security and Governance:

  • Ensure that security measures to protect personal data (for access, transfer, storage, and disposal) are in place
  • Ensure that appropriate mechanisms are in place to control access to information
  • Ensure that processes are in place to enable timely responses to requests from others for access to information
  • Monitor data-sharing agreements with other organizations and work with colleagues to ensure adequate information assurance in the supply chain
  • Keep up to date on Intellectual Property issues and policies relevant to the business
  • Contribute to the implementation of projects in the field of information law by conducting research and providing ideas and guidance to the Nigeria team
  • Support implementation of specific projects and related activities which support strategies for information risk aligned to business needs including the Tax & Status business case for Nigeria
  • Ensure that Information Asset Owners and Information Asset Managers are kept professionally updated and informed and that development opportunities are offered to them as appropriate.

Knowledge Management:

  • Provide consultancy support to the Nigeria team in embedding global knowledge-sharing practices (tools & techniques), facilitating the process of using them in particular to ensure effective records management and information governance
  • Support the Nigeria team in maintaining their SharePoint sites
  • Support the Nigeria Executive Team to develop a Knowledge Management Strategy for the operation
  • Keep up to date with relevant Knowledge Management initiatives in partner organizations and project teams.

Training, Awareness, and Audit:

  • Support learning and development, conducting training/workshops to develop relevant behaviors and skills in managers and teams to manage their business information effectively
  • Work closely with teams to develop appropriate training and/or briefing for partners and consultants in relevant areas of Information Governance and Knowledge Management
  • Conduct agreed on pre-audit checks and full audits across the operation and report findings to the Nigeria Executive Team
  • Keep updated on technology developments that impact the business e.g. CRM.

Personal and Professional Development and Cross-Team Working:

  • Keep updated professionally in the IKM specialist and related areas
  • Keep updated on relevant Nigerian and UK law
  • Take an active role in IKM networking events in Nigeria and the wider Region if called upon
  • Develop and maintain connections with the information community within the British Council
  • Enhance the British Council’s reputation by communicating relevant developments to British Council teams (UK, regional and country-based) and to external partners, as appropriate.

Role-specific Knowledge and Experience
Essential requirements:

  • Degree in any area of Information Science, preferably Information and/or Records Management
  • Minimum of 5 years of advisory-level experience in data protection, records management, knowledge management and freedom of information policy work.

Additional Information:

  • The post holder will be expected to travel within Nigeria and regionally. As with any business that experiences peaks and troughs of activity, there is likely to be a need to work outside office hours from time to time.
  • Language requirements: Strong written and oral English communication skills.
  • The role holder must have existing rights to live and work in the country the role is based.

Remuneration
NGN 10,989,828.00 per annum.

Deadline: 28th February, 2023 at 23:59 East Africa Time

How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should use the links below to apply:

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