Project Lead, AI Skilling Initiative – Africa

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🌐 Nigeria, Kenya, +2 more countries – Remote

🇳🇬 Nigeria – Remote 🇰🇪 Kenya – Remote 🇬🇭 Ghana – Remote 🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

💵 $100k - $115k / year

⏰ Full Time

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International Youth Foundation

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1990

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

🌍 Social Impact

Non-profit • Education • Social Impact

<International Youth Foundation> is a global nonprofit organization that designs and delivers job and life-skills programs to connect young people to economic opportunity. For 35 years it has partnered with employers, foundations, and local organizations to scale industry-validated technical training, career coaching, and awareness initiatives that reach millions of youth worldwide. IYF centers young people’s lived experiences to improve completion rates and employment outcomes, and focuses on workforce readiness, social inclusion, and measurable impact.

📋 Description

• Lead end-to-end delivery of a multi-country youth AI literacy and skilling initiative across Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa • Own country-level plans, workplans, milestones, budgets, outputs, outcomes, compliance, reporting, risk, data privacy, and youth safeguarding • Lead the youth engagement funnel from first exposure through active learning to applied capability • Set channel strategy and conversion targets across social, creator-led, partner, paid, and in-person channels • Manage marketing agencies, creative contractors, youth ambassadors, and creator rosters • Translate program content into localized messaging and formats for young audiences • Operationalize analytics, marketing automation, and AI-enabled tools to track reach, engagement, completion, and retention • Establish lifecycle engagement to move participants into deeper learning stages • Serve as primary day-to-day liaison with the funder and support renewal, extension, and scaling opportunities • Set learning objectives and curriculum standards; review and approve learning content and digital learning journeys • Ensure learning experiences work on low-end devices, limited data, and local languages • Manage delivery consortium partners and technical partner, including selection, due diligence, onboarding, sub-award management, and performance oversight • Serve as Budget Holder with fiscal oversight, forecasting, expenditure tracking, and corrective action • Apply adaptive management and youth-centered approaches • Ensure participation and learning are verified through credible, privacy-conscious methods • Drive a learning agenda and produce evidence for funders and the sector • Supervise country-level Program Officers, project staff, and consultants across four markets and multiple time zones • Represent the initiative with partners, institutions, and public audiences in the region

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience leading complex, multi-country programs, or equivalent senior experience leading growth, product or operations at scale in technology or digital education sectors • Significant work experience in Sub-Saharan Africa and in youth employment, digital skills, education, or workforce development • Proven track record driving measurable audience growth and conversion, including reach, engagement, completion, and retention • Experience in learning design, curriculum development, or skills training for youth or adult learners • Experience managing marketing or creative agencies, contractors, and creator or influencer partnerships • Fluency in digital analytics, CRM or marketing automation systems, and emerging AI-enabled tools • Experience managing implementing partners and sub-awards across multiple countries, including due diligence, compliance, and performance oversight • Experience delivering for corporate, technology, or foundation funders, including reporting against committed targets • Exceptional organizational and project management skills • Confident, persuasive communication skills in English, both oral and written • Proficiency in a language widely spoken in target markets, such as Kiswahili, Nigerian Pidgin, Yoruba, Twi or isiZulu, highly desirable • Strong coaching and team leadership skills • Excellent computer skills using MS Office products and other software platforms used by IYF • Ability to travel frequently within Africa and internationally as needed • Bachelor’s degree plus commensurate experience is acceptable; a Master’s degree is strongly preferred • Legal authority to work and reside in the country of hire

🏖️ Benefits

• Staff learning opportunities • Career development support • Equal Opportunity Employer • Ability to work remotely • Frequent travel within Africa and internationally as needed

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