Head, Innovation Hubs

About this job

<h2 data-path-to-node="8">About us</h2> <p>Moniepoint Inc. is Africa’s all-in-one financial platform, helping 20 million businesses and individuals access seamless payments, banking, credit, cross-border, and business management tools each month. </p> <p>As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions.

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• Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually.</p> <h2>About the role</h2> <p>Moniepoint is building innovation hubs at three of Nigeria’s leading universities: Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), and Ahmadu Bello University (ABU).
• Each hub is a cross-disciplinary platform, open to students from every faculty.
• The model is cohort-based, industry-connected, and built to produce technical talent ready for the job market, across software engineering, AI, product, data science, robotics, and design.
• The hubs train students in applied technical skills, connect them to working engineers, product leaders, and founders, and provide a path into industry at Moniepoint, at other technology companies, or through ventures of their own.</p> <p>This is a building role.
• The hubs are entering their operating phase, and you will own the design of how they run and the teams that run them.</p> <h2>What you will own</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Programme design.</strong> You will design the operating model for all three hubs from the ground up: how cohorts are structured, how learning is sequenced, what “job market-ready” means at each level, and how graduates are assessed and certified.
• This is not adapting someone else’s playbook.
• It is writing one.</li> <li><strong>University relationships</strong>.
• You will be the primary relationship owner with the Vice-Chancellors, deans, faculty leads, and student bodies at OAU, UNN, and ABU.
• These are institutional relationships that require both strategic seniority and sustained presence.</li> <li><strong>Cross-faculty engagement.</strong> The hubs are not engineering faculty initiatives.
• They are open to students across every faculty: engineering, sciences, humanities, business, design.
• You will design the engagement model that brings students from across each university into the hub and keeps them in it through the full cohort.</li> <li><strong>Industry and mentorship pipeline.</strong> The hubs derive their value from the connection between classroom and industry.
• You will build and manage the network of engineers, product leaders, and founders, inside Moniepoint and beyond, who mentor, assess, and hire from the hubs.</li> <li><strong>Facilitators and standard.</strong>  You will design the facilitator model, recruit the people who teach and assess, and own the standard those facilitators hold the cohort to.
• A single standard across all three hubs is non-negotiable; how it's delivered locally is yours to design.</li> <li><strong>Infrastructure and operations.</strong> You will own the physical footprint of each hub, whether that means a buildout from scratch or working within an existing campus structure, and manage the timelines, vendor relationships, and hub-level budgets across three sites.
• You will define the staffing model for each hub and recruit the on-ground team that runs them day to day.</li> <li><strong>Outcomes and accountability. </strong>You will set and own the metrics: graduate output, job placement, programme completion, cohort quality, employer satisfaction.</li> <li><strong>Pipeline integration. </strong>The hubs are upstream of Moniepoint Academy and other talent programmes.
• You will design the connective tissue between hub graduates and Moniepoint’s internal pathways, so the strongest talent has a clear next step.</li> </ul> <h2>Who you are</h2> <ul> <li>10+ years of experience overall, with at least 5 in leadership roles owning programmes, teams, and budgets end to end.</li> <li>You have built or led a technical training or workforce development programme at scale, ideally across multiple sites.
• You have taken something from zero to one - designed the model, hired the team, and held the standard yourself.</li> <li>You have held institutional relationships at senior level across universities, government bodies, and industry partners.
• You know how to navigate Nigerian university administration, or you have done it elsewhere and can credibly do it here.
• You have hired and managed technical educators, and you know what separates someone who can teach from someone who can teach to a standard.</li> <li>You understand what good engineering education looks like and what employers in software, AI, product, and data science actually hire for.
• You don't need to write code, but you need the technical fluency to design a programme that produces hireable engineers, not credentialed graduates.</li> <li>You are rigorous about outcomes and impatient with programmes that look good in announcements but cannot prove what they produce.</li> <li>Experience in edtech, developer education, university-industry partnerships, or workforce development is a strong signal.
• Building something from scratch and owning it through to measurable outcomes is essential.</li> </ul> <h2>What success looks like</h2> <ul> <li><strong>Year one.</strong> Operating model live across all three hubs.
• Cohorts running on a common standard.
• The facilitator team hired and held to the same expectations regardless of site.
• First graduate cohort exited, with a clear placement record into Moniepoint and into industry.</li> <li><strong>Year two.</strong> The hubs are recognised within Nigeria as the most credible cross-disciplinary technical training environment available to undergraduates.
• Employers, including Moniepoint, actively hire from the hubs.
• Cohort demand outstrips supply.</li> <li><strong>Year three.</strong> Hubs producing technical talent into Moniepoint at a cost-per-hire that justifies the investment, and into the wider industry at a scale and quality that defines what a corporate-funded university programme can look like in Nigeria.
• Model documented and ready to expand if leadership chooses.</li> </ul> <h2>What Moniepoint can offer you</h2> <ul> <li>The opportunity to shape one of the most consequential talent infrastructure investments in Nigerian technology. </li> <li>A dynamic, diverse, and collaborative environment where every team member's voice is recognised and valued. </li> <li>Continuous learning and career growth opportunities. </li> <li>Competitive salary, individual performance bonuses, and firmwide performance bonus.</li> <li>Company-covered health insurance plans.
• Pension plans.</li> </ul> <h2>What to expect in the hiring process</h2> <ul> <li>A preliminary conversation with one of our recruiters.</li> <li>An interview with the hiring manager, our Head of Corporate Affairs.</li> <li>A case study or written exercise on operating model design for the hubs.</li> <li>An interview with our Group COO.</li> <li>A final conversation with our CEO.</li> </ul>