About this role
Job Title: Learning Academy Director
Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full time (Hybrid)
- About the Role
- The Crown Interactive Academy is both a capability-building function and a scaling mechanism for the Group. It supports customer adoption, develops certified implementation capacity and creates structured learning pathways around 1Gov, CuBOSS and CICOD.
- The Director is expected to build the Academy as a commercially disciplined platform rather than an internal training department, with strong quality assurance, measurable post-training outcomes and a growing ecosystem of certified professionals and partners.
Role Mandate
- Create a trusted African technology capability and certification platform that accelerates adoption, expands implementation capacity and generates sustainable training revenue.
Key Responsibilities
Academy Strategy & Commercial Model:
- Define Academy portfolio, pricing, revenue model and annual operating plan.
- Build programmes aligned to business growth and customer adoption.
- Develop institutional and partner relationships for scale.
Curriculum & Certification:
- Create role-based curricula, assessments and certification standards.
- Maintain version control as products evolve.
- Protect certification integrity through quality assurance and recertification.
Delivery & Learner Experience:
- Plan cohorts, instructors, learning platforms and logistics.
- Measure completion, pass rates, satisfaction and learning outcomes.
- Ensure consistent delivery across countries and programmes.
Adoption & Implementation Capacity:
- Measure whether training improves product adoption and implementation quality.
- Build pools of certified implementers, administrators and support personnel.
- Work with Business Leaders to forecast capability demand.
Cross-Group Alignment:
- Maintain technical accuracy with CTIO/CTO.
- Work with CMO on Academy positioning and demand.
- Support Regional Operations with local capability-building models.
Decision Rights:
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Set Academy delivery/certification standards.
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Recommend programme pricing and accreditation models.
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Approve certification outcomes within defined standards.
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Allocate Academy resources within approved plan.
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Candidate Profile
Qualifications & Knowledge:
- Relevant Degree; professional learning/training qualifications advantageous.
- Strong understanding of adult learning, certification, assessment and digital learning platforms.
Experience
- Senior learning, professional certification, technology enablement or capability-development leadership.
- Experience managing commercial training portfolios and quality standards.
- Ability to build partner/instructor ecosystems and measure learning impact.
- Strong programme management and stakeholder capability.
Leadership Competencies:
- Enterprise leadership and strategic judgement: sees across functions and businesses, makes trade-offs and converts strategy into priorities.
- Execution discipline: establishes clear ownership, measurable outcomes, operating cadence and timely intervention when performance deviates.
- Commercial and customer orientation: understands how value is created, contracted, delivered, accepted, billed, collected and expanded.
- Leadership maturity: attracts strong people, delegates effectively, gives direct feedback and builds accountable high-performing teams.
- Collaboration without ambiguity: works constructively across peer functions while preserving clear decision rights and accountability.
- Governance and risk awareness: makes decisions with appropriate regard for regulation, controls, data, reputation and long-term resilience.
- Communication and influence: communicates complex issues clearly to Boards, executives, customers, government stakeholders and partners.
Key Working Relationships:
- Group COO and Business Leaders.
- CTIO/CTO for technical integrity.
- CMO for market development.
- Customers, trainees, partner organisations and Regional Operations.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.