Project Manager

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🇳🇬 Nigeria – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👷‍♀️ Project Manager

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QS Quacquarelli Symonds

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

501 - 1000 employees

Founded 1990

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📚 Education

Consulting • Marketing • Education

QS Quacquarelli Symonds is a global leader in higher education performance and insights, offering solutions in student recruitment, reputation management, and employability. The company partners with universities, business schools, and governments worldwide to enhance institutional goals and performance. With a significant focus on digital innovation and sustainability, QS provides data-driven tools and advisory services to help institutions understand and amplify their reach and impact. QS is renowned for its world university rankings and extensive expertise in the higher education sector.

📋 Description

• Translate partnership objectives into integrated project plans, milestones, responsibilities and delivery schedules • Monitor progress, dependencies, risks, issues and benefits, escalating matters when required • Provide evidence-based updates and recommendations to University and partner leadership • Coordinate governance arrangements, prepare agendas and papers, service committees, record decisions and track actions • Manage education-related projects, institutional visits and key events • Act as principal in-country operational contact between the University, UNILAG and external stakeholders • Build working relationships across cultures and organisational boundaries • Oversee the annual teaching and learning cycle, including induction, timetabling, attendance, assessment, progression, placements and graduation • Provide guidance and administrative support to academic and professional services colleagues • Maintain systems, procedures, service standards and business-continuity arrangements • Ensure quality control and data-checking for student records, programme information, communications and shared documentation • Coordinate programme and module reviews, quality audits and compliance reporting • Compile, analyse and interpret information to produce management and institutional reports • Use student feedback and engagement data to improve student experience • Ensure students can access guidance on University and partner processes and refer specialist or welfare matters • Support student representation and staff–student liaison arrangements • Develop links with careers, alumni, student engagement, wellbeing and other services • Support student recruitment plans, recruitment events, applicant enquiries and student guidance • Contribute operational insight to recruitment strategy, marketing meetings and public-facing materials • Assess resource and capability needs and contribute to recruitment, induction, training, workload planning and cover arrangements • Coordinate routine operational and financial administration • Promote equality, diversity, inclusion, responsible working and excellent service • Undertake other reasonable duties supporting the Nigeria project

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant professional experience • Substantial experience managing complex education, international partnership or comparable multi-stakeholder projects • Experience delivering projects to deadlines and agreed standards • Experience leading or supervising staff, including setting priorities, developing capability and managing performance sensitively • Strong understanding of programme administration and the academic lifecycle • Experience of quality assurance, compliance, student records or related systems • Ability to analyse complex information, maintain robust controls and produce concise, accurate reports and recommendations • Excellent written and spoken English • Ability to communicate confidently and diplomatically with students, academic staff, professional services colleagues, senior leaders and external partners • Ability to work independently in a remotely managed, cross-cultural environment while collaborating with distributed teams • Highly developed planning, organisation, problem-solving and judgement • Ability to manage competing priorities and respond constructively to change • Strong digital literacy, including confident use of Microsoft Office • Experience working with complex administrative or student-record systems • Commitment to confidentiality, data protection, equality, diversity, inclusion and excellent service • Desirable: postgraduate or professional qualification in project management, higher education administration or related field • Desirable: experience of transnational education, joint or dual-degree programmes, or collaboration between UK and Nigerian higher education institutions • Desirable: knowledge of the Nigerian higher education environment and relevant regulatory or quality-assurance expectations • Desirable: experience supporting student recruitment, marketing, governance committees or operational budgets • Desirable: relevant Nigerian language skills or other language capability supporting local stakeholder engagement • Role based in Nigeria with regular travel within Nigeria and occasional international travel • Flexibility in working hours to collaborate across time zones and support occasional events • Subject to pre-employment checks and applicable Nigerian employment requirements

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible working environment • Free subscription to the Calm App • Global wellness team and mental health first aiders globally • Employee Assistance Program with comprehensive wellness and 24/7 helpline • Diversity and inclusion initiatives and groups • Recognition and reward programs, including peer-to-peer recognition platform and QS Applaud Awards • Connect with your Career annual professional development event • Support for volunteering and study leave • Free subscription to LinkedIn Learning with over 5,000 courses and programmes • Global Mentorship programme