Director of Business Training & Consulting Centre

The client is an equal opportunity employer, invites applications for the position of: Business Training & Consulting Centre (BTCC)

The Business Training & Consulting Centre (BTCC) of a higher-education institution offers high-impact, non-degree certificate and professional designation programmes via customised and open enrolment, (in-person, on-campus and offsite, online and hybrid) as well as consulting services and conferences, designed to meet current and emerging business needs and help executives and organizations improve their effectiveness in meeting their objectives.

The Position:

The Centre seeks to hire a Director, to provide strategic and administrative leadership to the Centre and its activities, which include training, consulting and bidding on public tenders.  The Centre Director leads all aspects of training and consulting programs, ranging from business and program development to program delivery and assessment, and from management of the operational staff to financial management, ensuring the attainment of financial targets.

The Main Duties:

• Leads and directs a group of professionals responsible for designing, managing and delivering business training programs, consulting projects and the preparation of public tenders

•  Ensures that training programs are highly relevant and differentiated, capitalizing on faculty strengths to help build skills and capabilities of client businesses and organizations

• Develops training and development programs, including Vital and Open Enrolment training seminars subsidized by HRDA, with input from faculty, external experts and prospective trainers

• Works with faculty, staff, and clients to identify the challenges facing leaders, managers and employees and designs customized in-house training programmes and consulting projects to meet their needs

• Works in partnership with the marketing team to develop sales plans to target specific audiences, develop relationships with organizations, and build the brand of these programs;

• Diligently markets and sells business education programs to the business community across various industries.

• Oversees program design and implementation including financial, operational, administrative aspects, content delivery and program logistics;

• Develops and executes monitoring and evaluation processes to track programmatic data and to apply lessons learned to future programs;

• Develops and manages relationships with clients and builds community among participants and alumni of professional & executive education programs.

Required Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in Business Administration or a related field of study or an equivalent combination of education and experience in related business and leadership positions

• Demonstrated experience in management consulting or professional services; experience in developing & managing training programs not required but an advantage

• Demonstrated experience in business development, in sales and in generating new revenue;  

• Ability to collaborate and coordinate across diverse groups, strong business intelligence, people skills, and consultative selling skills;

• Demonstrated ability to problem-solve and to collaborate with professionals at all levels in diverse settings. Ability to form strategic partnerships;

• Superior written and oral communication skills and ability to adapt communications to a range of audiences;

• Willingness to travel in-country extensively and frequently and, internationally occasionally.

Compensation:

Salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications. Benefits. Commission and incentives for attaining and exceeding financial targets.

Instructions to Applicants:

Applications received by 30th November 2021 will receive full consideration. Review of applications will continue until the position is filled. Submit a cover letter, a curriculum vita, and three references (phone & email) to be contacted at the appropriate time in the process and after consultation with the candidate. All application documents must be submitted electronically to job_positionvacancy@yahoo.com.