Digital Geekaship General Manager at Infoware Studios

About you!

We’re looking for someone out-of-the-ordinary, who walks to the beat of their own drum, who is ambitious and willing to try new things. How many of these boxes do you tick?

• Quirky

• Creative

• Exuberant

• Brilliant

• Intelligent

• Have a flair for people

• The opposite of egocentric

• A born leader

• Self-managed

• Professional

• Extremely high work-ethic (non-negotiable!)

• Service orientated

• Quality of work is important to you

 What will you be doing?

The main responsibilities will be to:

General Management

• Manage the Digital Geekaship Academy end-to-end. This includes but are not limited to:

• Management of mentors: mentor allocation and schedule management, mentor review feedback management.

• Annual budgeting and management of monthly management accounts against the approved budget.

• Monthly invoicing of clients.

• Internal HR: payroll, management of mentor and intern leave, recruitment of people for Digital Geekaship.

• Day-to-day management of the Digital Geekaship.

Sales + Marketing

• Build pipeline of new potential clients on demand side.

• Sales meetings with new clients.

• Proposals to new clients.

• Contract signing with new clients.

• Work with Infoware CDO to drive marketing of the the business.

• Trend analysis within the education and training sector, identifying new opportunities and presenting this to the board.

Customer Relationship Management

• Manage: customer references, case study definition, service delivery surveys.

• Own and manage Client Service Delivery Strategy.

• Existing client account management.

• Organise interfacing of partners and clients with interns.

• Monthly intern progress reporting.

Internship Programmes

• Work with Infoware recruitment management to drive annual placement targets.

• Development of programme material.

• Lectures with interns.

• Oversee and assess progress of interns.

• Interview interns.

• 5 years experience as an Educator, skills developer or trainer within the technology space.

Please do not apply if the following is not applicable to you:

• 5+ total working experience. 
• 3+ years of revenue generating role. 
• Over 30. 
• Minimum period of 3 years commitment. 
• Have a good network in South Africa and wider Africa. This will have to be validated during the interview process. 
• Software development background. 
• Sales related qualification or training.
• Availability to frequent global travel.