Project Lead, AI Skilling Initiative Africa (Sub-Saharan)

About the role

The International Youth Foundation leads a multi-country youth AI literacy and skilling initiative across Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. This role owns end-to-end program direction, delivery discipline, audience growth, and ensuring learning quality and impact across markets.

What you'll do

• Lead country plans, workplans, milestones, and budgets for four markets while ensuring funder compliance and timely reporting.
• Own the youth engagement funnel from exposure to verified learning, optimizing channels and spend for growth and learning outcomes.
• Manage marketing partners and creator rosters, translating content for local markets and devices.
• Operationalize analytics and AI-enabled tools to track reach, engagement, completion, and retention, and run experiments.
• Serve as the primary liaison with the funder, coordinating with the Regional Director on priorities and renewal opportunities.
• Oversee learning quality, curriculum standards, and content approvals with subject-matter experts and pedagogy advisors.

What they're looking for

• Experience leading multi-market education or skilling initiatives, preferably in AI literacy or tech pedagogy.
• Strong program management skills with budget oversight and risk management across multiple time zones.
• Proven ability to drive audience growth, channel strategy, and partner management in a mission-driven context.
• Comfort with data Privacy, safeguarding, and reporting to funders, with a learning analytics mindset.
• Ability to translate learning objectives into scalable content and ensure accessibility on low-end devices.
• Collaborative leadership style with experience supervising officers, staff, and contractors across markets.

For applicants in Nigeria

• The listing specifies Nigeria as a location option, indicating eligibility for applicants in Nigeria.
• Location is remote; time zones across Africa are involved. The listing does not state a strict timezone requirement-confirm during interview.
• Pay currency is not stated; not enough information to determine, confirm during process.
• The listing does not mention visa or work-authorization specifics; confirm requirements during interview.