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About the job

Country Manager, Nigeria

Location: Nigeria

Working Schedule: 40 Hours Per Week

Salary: Competitive

The Organisation

Oxford International Education Group is one of the UK’s leading education providers with an extensive and diversified portfolio of university partnerships, digital education programmes, teacher training and English language teaching and testing solutions. We are student outcome focused and intent on delivering excellence.

The Opportunity

This role with direction from the Associate Director, this role is required to lead a Sales team to meet the Pathways’ strategic, financial, business, and operational recruitment objectives in Nigeria. The candidate will be responsible for driving sales growth whilst also managing the recruitment of Nigerian students to our UK and European Pathway Colleges.

The candidate is required to implement and execute a country strategy for achieving a strong brand presence and increased market share, achieve student recruitment targets, support the agent network, and carefully monitor the recruitment budget to ensure that all commercial objectives for Oxford International in Nigeria are achieved and are delivered on budget.

The role requires exceptional leadership skills including the ability to build strong internal and external relationships, the ability to communicate clearly and concisely across a diverse set of audiences, and negotiation and influencing skills. The successful candidate will have solid leadership experience, be enthusiastic, target-driven, and a strong team player with a flexible approach to work. The role will include recruitment travel across Nigeria and occasional travel internationally.

The Role

• To work with the Associate Director to consistently achieve and exceed the recruitment target for Nigeria and to support the Pathways’ recruitment objectives through attendance at recruitment events across Nigeria.
• To develop and execute the Nigeria sales & marketing strategy whilst accurately forecasting monthly, quarterly, and annual targets.
• To establish and manage KPIs in line with business objectives for the team of Regional Managers in Nigeria, with direction from the Associate Director.
• To motivate and drive the Sales team to support the Pathways’ recruitment objectives through attendance at recruitment events across Nigeria.
• To work with colleagues across Marketing and Student Recruitment to implement market-focused activity plans.
• To build effective working relationships with the Pathway Colleges and deliver collaborative recruitment activities to achieve enrolment targets.
• To develop a strong understanding of the OIEG overall brand positioning, brand messages, subject provision and the unique positioning, provision and strengths of the Pathways Colleges and to use these to effectively promote the colleges to students, parents and key influencers in Nigeria.
• To be fully conversant with the admissions policies and procedures to ensure that all recruitment activities are compliant with admissions policies and processes.
• To influence and effectively manage relationships with key agents in Nigeria, identifying potential new representation in cities where the Pathways is not currently represented, and offering training for counsellors in-country. With direction from the Associate Director and in collaboration with colleagues from across the Marketing and Student Recruitment department, to support effective communications across OIEG’s overseas network.
• To provide comprehensive reports on market visits, to disseminate these reports appropriately within the organization and to ensure that market intelligence gained through recruitment activity is fed back to colleagues within the Marketing and Student Recruitment Department and to colleges to inform future activity and the development of new products and services.
• To work collaboratively with other colleagues in the recruitment team in disseminating and providing training for staff across the organization who are engaged in student recruitment activities.

What you need:

• Solid Leadership Experience
• Eligibility to live, work and travel freely in Nigeria
• Meet statutory and organisational child-safeguarding requirements
• Educated to a minimum of degree level.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written) and at least one of the languages spoken in the region of responsibility
• Managerial/Supervisory experience
• Significant experience in educational sales in order ‘to hit the ground running’ and have an immediate impact
• Excellent understanding of sales and marketing processes in the international education sector
• Excellent knowledge of the region and its market trends
• Excellent knowledge of the international HE market
• Demonstrate in-depth knowledge of the products associated with international
• Experience of producing sales reports

How to apply

Please send an up to date CV and covering letter to Jennifer Dublin-Green, jdublingreen@OxfordInternational.com (jdublingreen@OxfordInternational.com) by Monday, 7th February 2022.

Recruitment is carried out on the sole basis of the applicant's abilities and suitability for the job. Gender, race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, nationality, ethnic or national origin will not justify the non-recruitment of an applicant. No applicant will be considered unsuitable for appointment, or less suitable than another applicant, on grounds of gender, race, colour, religion, sexual orientation and age.

OIEG is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. The post holder’s responsibilities for safeguarding the welfare of the young students in their care are to adhere to the OIEG Child Protection Policy. All OIEG employees are subject to enhanced DBS check or overseas equivalent.