Head, Innovation Hubs

About us 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. As Nigeria’s largest merchant acquirer, we power most of the country’s point-of-sale (POS) transactions. Through our subsidiaries, Moniepoint Inc. processes over $250 billion in digital payment transaction value annually. About the role 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. 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. What you will own Programme design. 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. University relationships . 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. Cross-faculty engagement. 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. Industry and mentorship pipeline. 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. Facilitators and standard. 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. Infrastructure and operations. 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. Outcomes and accountability. You will set and own the metrics: graduate output, job placement, programme completion, cohort quality, employer satisfaction. Pipeline integration. 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. Who you are 10+ years of experience overall, with at least 5 in leadership roles owning programmes, teams, and budgets end to end. 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. You have held institutional relationships at senior level across universities, government bodies, and industry partners. You know how to navigate…