Practice Lead, Technology & Society at Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB) Nigeria

This position requires a team player with leadership qualities, excellent communication & presentation skills, a professional and positive attitude, organization, and dependability.

Your responsibilities shall include the following :

• Identify critical governance priorities for the unit & initiate activities to stimulate solutions around the priority areas.
• To plan, launch and manage innovation initiatives to deliver products to be utilized by government agencies, civil society & citizens to improve public service delivery & social accountability in Africa.
• Research key governance issues to identify critical leverage areas around which the Practice should engage stakeholders and citizens.
• Manage research & insights that drive solutions for the practice & its clients especially government agencies, civil society organizations & the general public.
• Overall planning of activities, resources, budgets, and operations of the practice.
• Provide technical insights & networking support to governance ventures incubated at the CcHUB.
• Develop a mentor network for the practice across the public sector & civil society and work with them to support incubated ventures.
• Proactively identify engage & manage new partners with government, CSOs, and donor agencies.
• Lead in developing proposals for new governance projects to local and international funding organizations.
• Work in coordination with senior management to set up a seed fund for governance ventures.
• Prepare all required reports and maintain a comprehensive set of records on all activities.

Digital Security

• Ensure that our information security awareness program communicates effective security policies and requirements so that people know, understand, and can follow them.
• Promote awareness of information security policies through the creation and maintenance of an online presence that is intuitive to use, provides engaging activities to reinforce behaviors, and serves as a central repository for security guidance and references.
• Develop new or identify existing information security training, education, and awareness activities.
• Develop and maintain an information security awareness program that effectively motivates desired behaviors so our community handles data and systems in a secure manner.
• Prepare and deliver information security training, education, and awareness activities.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of existing information security training, education, and awareness programs/activities.
• Create a metrics framework that can effectively measure engagement, behaviors, and impact.
• Collaborate with information/Data security technical experts as needed to augment or further develop information security training, education, and awareness activities.
• Build awareness by taking a holistic approach to the information security awareness program using electronic messages, newsletters, symposia, and printed materials that complement each other and build upon previously covered concepts.
• Work with external vendors and agency partners as needed to establish quotes, production schedules, delivery, and implementation of programs.

Qualifications

• A solid understanding of the Nigerian public sector with relationships to academia, government agencies, civil society, start-ups, and the development partner community
• A Bachelor’s or Masters Degree from an accredited university
• Experience in civil society, a start-up, or other business environment
• Applies basic knowledge of information security and risk mitigation principles, theories, and techniques in daily work.
• Demonstrates understanding and use of basic project management methodologies, including the ability to plan, manage and maintain a complex, organization-wide program over the longer term.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing.
• Independently writes well-structured and persuasive ‎end products/product descriptions.‎
• Crafts messages/training manual to match the capability of the audience. (Ability to contextualize technical content for campus audiences may be better.)
• Ability to communicate in a simple, clear, and concise manner to the various communities within our organization.
• Practical knowledge of different message distribution techniques to ensure end user communities understand and continually apply the required behavior necessary to reduce the 'human factors' risk.
• Desire to learn and integrate new capabilities in digital technology, such as audio, video, social media, online communities, blogs, and other web-based technologies.
• Creative thinking and understanding of audience to produce engaging materials in a variety of formats and media, including storyboards, user guides, and gamification elements.
• Resilience and flexibility to explore different paths to achieve an outcome and adjust quickly and efficiently to new circumstances and measured results.
• Confidently develops and delivers ‎presentations and is able to respond ‎to questions.
• Highly organized and able to multi-task and manage concurrent deadlines.
• Ability to effectively contribute to and lead working groups.
• A high degree of independence, integrity and confidentiality.
• Flexible; able to move strategy forward in a rapidly changing environment.
• A robust analytical skill set
• Strong working knowledge of computer applications including Microsoft applications
• Excellent verbal, written and presentation skills
• An entrepreneurial and innovative mind-set