Summary
Date Posted: Friday, October 01, 2021 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
They should be results driven, inventive self-starters who want to be part of a growing organization, and willing to roll up their sleeves and collaborate in a manner that engenders trust and engagement from across the organization.

RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Lead broadcast and distribution strategy. Support and manage broadcast managers and mitigate any risks or challenges affecting distribution.
• Thought Partner with country representatives, country managers and other teams to develop country specific strategies that support content distribution, broadcast business development, marketing activities and other activations.
• Oversee strategy execution across markets while working closely with country representatives on the ground, mobilize resources by supporting organizational fundraising efforts and marshall resources from Ubongo HQ to country teams as needed.
• Grow a pan African team through expansion to new markets, recruitment of new talent and coaching of existing team members – setting them up for success.
• Understand key market trends, gather business intelligence through market research and make data driven decisions.
• Lead strategically to develop partnerships with government institutions, broadcasters, non-profit organizations and corporations across Africa.
• Serve as the cross-functional brand ambassador providing high-level guidance, best practices, and on-going plans to support country reps serving as country ambassadors, build partnerships, collaborate with other internal teams, and grow content/brand throughout the region.
• Create opportunities for knowledge exchange and capacity building across the country teams.
• Partner with the marketing and communications teams to ensure long-term planning and alignment upstream on business priorities, growth initiatives, content strategy, project prioritization, timelines, and budgeting allocations.
• Seek innovation opportunities working cross functionally by identifying new workflows, templates, and automated tools to optimize deliverables and increase efficiencies
• Support country reps with budget management and disbursement of funds. Eg working with the operations team to build templates for them to use, and ensuring they are compliant according to Ubongo procedures and regulations
• Provide them with business intelligence and having systems for tracking progress. Building dashboards for each country to track their metrics.
• Develop playbooks and guides that can help them understand how to address and overcome challenges they meet along the way. Eg, access to tools with critical information.
• Travel across Africa to support country teams.
• Ensure standardization of approaches and processes across countries eg. Set up systems to streamline processes such as travel, financial management.

REQUIREMENT:
• A visionary with a deep understanding of franchise and brand-building with technology and operations management success
• Strategic and analytical approach to solutions and decisions, problem-solving and ability to work through ambiguity to align departments/teams on goals
• Long-term strategy development and lifecycle planning experience
• A great, interpersonal communicator, with a high EQ, excellent written and oral communication skills in English; multilingual experience a plus
• Stellar multi-tasking, project management and organizational skills with a high attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines
• Highly flexible in a fast-paced, changing environment with the ability to quickly resolve issues and prioritize a large workload
• You love content creation and have some knowledge of the entertainment landscape and media trends
• Passionate about childrens’ education and enhancing their learning experiences
• Persistent and a go-getter! We have a big goal and have to get things done with limited resources.
• Be willing to wear many hats!

Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

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