Director, Innovation Consulting at Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB)

CcHUB is Nigeria’s first open living lab and pre-incubation space being designed to be a multi-functional, multi-purpose space where work to catalyze creative social tech ventures take place. The HUB is a place for technologists, social entrepreneurs, government, tech companies, impact investors and hackers in and around Lagos to co-create new solutions to the many social problems in Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Director, Innovation Consulting

Location: Lagos, Nigeria
Job type: Full-time

Job Overview

The Director, Innovation Consulting will lead the innovation consulting unit in the definition and implementation of a comprehensive strategic plan supporting innovation, technology transfer and project development activities – from the ideation and prototype process of innovation suitability for various projects and creation of value for CcHUB partners.
S/he will also be involved in all phases of strategy and consultation to partners applying ‘Design Thinking’ approaches and tools which will support the development of solutions.
Organize ideation events; manage scheduling, materials, facilitation and documentation.
Delivering to targets for the desired outcomes from innovation and transformation projects
Articulate and frame client’s business problems, and the mutual value of recommendations, initiatives, solutions and phases of a strategic roadmap
Translate ideas into strategy and features, leading solution development from start to finish
Collaborate and identify opportunities
Advocate for those opportunities, evangelize concepts, and develop designs and concepts into solid business cases.
Lead the innovation team through gathering requirements, design, development and testing of new solutions.
Incubate the solution through the early deployment, drive and nurture the opportunity toward sustainability, identify potential strategic positioning options, and articulate profitability scenarios for solution
Collaborate with CcHUB partners to launch, deployment and scaling to ensure successful external uptake and ownership of products, processes and/or services.

Qualifications

Good problem-solving acumen skills with the ability to evaluate business cases and drive growth
Be able to demonstrate a successful end to end design strategy, ownership and delivery of innovative consulting methodologies.
A passion and curiosity for innovation and continuous improvement
Ability to facilitate meetings, working sessions and workshops with sensitivity to the client and team needs
Contribute to thought leadership internally within innovation strategy & consulting capability
Familiar with continuous improvement framework/concepts, processes and procedures is an advantage.
Strategic thinking and analytical skills.
Strong project management and facilitation skills. Able to communicate effectively with different levels of stakeholders.
Motivated individual with excellent work ethic, and able to work effectively in a team.

What’s On Offer?