Innovation Education Manager

1 month ago

Midrand, South Africa Vodafone Full time

**.**:
**When it comes to putting people first, we're number 1.**

The number 1 Top Employer in South Africa.
Certified by the Top Employer Institute 2024.

**Role Purpose/Business Unit**:

- To develop and deliver the Innovation Education programme, the following functions will be implemented.
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Learner **- develop the models, content, and delivery channels for an introductory set of training modules on Innovation, aimed at stakeholders who want to familiarise themselves with the relevant concepts.
- ** Expert - **develop the models, content, and delivery channels for a practical, hands-on, set of training modules on taking an innovative idea from ideation through to the end of incubation and/or acceleration. To ensure faster time to market of new, innovative ideas, there is a key requirement in the Group Innovation function to support Vodacom Business Units with idea validation, development, and implementation skills in a practical and pragmatic way. A pool of experts must be developed and led to provide skills to the business units such as defined in the Vodacom Innovation and design thinking frameworks. The Education Manager will develop the pool of experts and lead them in providing these services to the relevant business units.

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- Design, build, deliver and develop the models, content, and delivery channels for an Introductory set of training modules on Innovation to allow learners to:

- Gain an understanding of Innovation in Vodacom
- Gain an understanding into Vodacom Innovation programs, tools and events
- Design, build, deliver and develop the models, content, and delivery channels for a Practioner set of training modules on Innovation to allow learners to:

- Gain practical understanding into innovation models and methodologies to build the feasibility, viability and desirability of their ideas,
- Practically take those ideas from conception to completion
- Design, build and deliver the expert implementation framework and training modules to enable Vodacom Business units to:

- Identifying opportunities to design and build and take to market core innovations
- Support business units to design, model, test and launch core innovations operationally, commercially, and financially,
- Develop market Awareness, Acquisition, Activation and Retention strategies and plans
- Assess build, buy, and Partner options to accelerate implementation plans
- Build quality business plans, go-to-market and growth plans for ideas to be implemented,
- Ensure human-centric focus to idea implementation and user experience designs.
- Develop best practices, processes and innovative procedures to improve the quality of idea implementation
- Develop, train and manage a virtual pool of Implementation Experts to provide the above services to the relevant business units
- Understand Design Thinking principles, the lean start-up methodology, the Agile Project Management framework and other Innovation frameworks and methodologies with an ability to transmit these competencies to the business in a practical and pragmatic way
- Core Capabilities
- Relevant experience as related to innovation, learning and development and training
- Strategic thinking
- Business planning
- Storytelling and pitching
- Proactive problem solving
- End-to-end problem and solution assessment
- Reengineering and radically simplifying operational models

**Your responsibilities will include**:

- Designs the operating model for Innovation Education including Learner, Practitioner and Expert to increase idea implementation
- Implement and operationalises the operating model for Innovation Education
- Develop Vision and strategy for the Innovation Education function
- Design the operating model for the Innovation Education function
- Implement and manage the operating model for Innovation Education
- Develop best practices, processes and innovative procedures to improve the quality of idea implementation across the business
- Manage the trained pool of virtual Implementation experts
- Provide written documentation (incl. reports)
- Bachelor’s degree in commercial or engineering disciplines or equivalent degree is a requirement. MBA or another post-graduate qualification is advantageous.
- Relevant learning and development (training) experience (preferably Innovation training)
- Demonstrated innovation and entrepreneurial experience
- Experience incubating new businesses and/or establishing new businesses or markets
- 5 years of Business Management hands-on experience

**Skills**
- Training content development and delivery
- Strong interpersonal and communication
- Critical and Creative Thinking
- End to end problem and solution construction
- Business Management
- In-depth knowledge of business design, Ideation, Incubation, and Acceleration
- Business Modelling - financial and commercial
- Business Plan development and execution
- Strong knowledge of design thinking methodologies
- Networking
- Ability to influence and get stakeholder buy-in
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