The Role
Coordinate Project D.A.W.N.’s schedules, design reviews, deliverables, university nodes, faculty, students, partners, documentation, grants, communications, and travel logistics. The role maintains programme cadence, supports the CEO, manages stakeholder onboarding and compliance tracking, coordinates social and website content, and ensures deadlines and operational commitments are completed across international time zones.
Summary Generated by Built In
PROJECT D.A.W.N. Mission Associates are the operational nucleus of Project D.A.W.N. They are the person who ensures that everything the CEO and Faculty architects strategically actually moves forward operationally. They are the steady hand on the tiller, the keeper of cadence, and the first call for every Faculty member, university node, partner, and student team that needs something to happen.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Programme Operations & Coordination
• Maintain a real-time master schedule of all DAWN activities, milestones, design reviews (MCR, PDR, CDR, TRR, FRR), deliverables, and dependencies.
• Run weekly programme stand-ups with Faculty subgroups (OAU, UNILAG, Zambian network, Ethiopian network) and consolidate status into a single weekly programme report to the CEO.
• Track Faculty technical assignments — link budgets, FEA studies, curriculum designs, requirements documents — and chase deliverables courteously but persistently.
• Coordinate the Mission Concept Review and subsequent design-review gates across all university nodes.
Faculty & Stakeholder Engagement
• Serve as the day-to-day contact for the 23-member Faculty network. Manage onboarding logistics for new Faculty (appointment letters, biographies, headshots, website profiles, LinkedIn announcements).
• Maintain communication cadence with university nodes, NPCs, and institutional partners
• Manage the CEO’s programme calendar, prepare meeting briefs, and ensure pre-meeting materials reach participants on time.
Student & University Node Management
• Be the primary contact for the student teams. Coordinate subsystem requirements documents, design milestones, and student deliverables.
• Coordinate engineering tool access Concurrent Design Chest platform for student teams.
• Support node coordinators at new universities through onboarding, MOU execution, and student team formation.
Document & Knowledge Management
• Maintain the Project D.A.W.N. document library — MOUs, appointment letters, proposals, cost reports, technical documents, partner communications, financial records, and grant applications.
• Track the status of every MOU, partnership agreement, and institutional document across the programme.
• Maintain the Faculty roster, university node list, and partner ecosystem map — always current, always accurate.
Grants, Fundraising & Compliance Support
• Track active grant applications and manage submission timelines.
• Coordinate with fiscal partners, Phemotron’s designated fiscal vehicles on donation reporting, disbursement requests, and financial documentation.
• Support compliance with university MOU obligations, partner reporting requirements, and any regulatory deadlines.
Communications & Visibility
• Coordinate the DAWN podcast pipeline (recording schedules, episode descriptions, LinkedIn announcements, YouTube uploads).
• Manage LinkedIn and social media posting cadence; queue pre-drafted content from the CEO for posting on schedule.
• Maintain the projectdawn.africa website with current Faculty profiles, news, and announcements (working with the web developer).
Travel & Trip Logistics
• Plan and coordinate, Build trip itineraries and briefing packets for visits
QUALIFICATIONS — REQUIRED
1. Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Sciences, Business Administration, Project Management, International Relations, or a closely related field.
2. Mastery of digital productivity tools — Google Workspace (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets), Microsoft 365, Slack, WhatsApp Business, Zoom/Teams, Notion or Asana or equivalent.
3. Demonstrated discretion with confidential and sensitive institutional information.
4. Disciplined ownership of deadlines, deliverables, and follow-through. You do not need to be reminded.
5. Comfortable working across time zones (Lagos, Tokyo, Beijing, Washington, Addis Ababa). Some after-hours flexibility for international calls is required, balanced by time-in-lieu.
8. Eligibility to work in Nigeria and willingness to be based at the Lagos office on a hybrid schedule.
QUALIFICATIONS — STRONGLY DESIRED
1. Familiarity with the space/aerospace sector or, failing that, with technical R&D, university research administration, or engineering education programmes.
2. Prior experience supporting a CEO, Director-General, Vice-Chancellor, or other senior principal.
3. Experience with grant administration (application timelines, reporting, fiscal sponsor coordination).
4. Working knowledge of LinkedIn content management, light website CMS, and basic graphic-design tools (Canva).
WHO YOU ARE
You are the kind of person who reads a long, complex email and instantly knows what needs to happen next. You are not waiting to be told what to do. You are calm under pressure, gracious with difficult counterparts, persistent without being aggressive, and genuinely energised by the idea of building Africa’s satellite future from a 16th-floor office on Marina, Lagos. You take ownership of outcomes, not just tasks. You communicate clearly, write professionally, and never let a Faculty member or partner fall through the cracks.
If you have ever sat at a desk thinking “I am ready for something that actually matters,” this role was written for you.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Sciences, Business Administration, Project Management, International Relations, or a closely related field
- Mastery of Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, WhatsApp Business, Zoom or Teams, and Notion, Asana, or equivalent tools
- Demonstrated discretion with confidential and sensitive institutional information
- Disciplined ownership of deadlines, deliverables, and follow-through
- Comfort working across international time zones with some after-hours flexibility
- Eligibility to work in Nigeria and willingness to work from the Lagos office on a hybrid schedule
- Familiarity with the space or aerospace sector, technical R&D, university research administration, or engineering education programmes
- Experience supporting a CEO, Director-General, Vice-Chancellor, or other senior principal
- Experience with grant administration, reporting, and fiscal sponsor coordination
- Working knowledge of LinkedIn content management, website CMS tools, and Canva or similar graphic-design tools
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