OBJECTIVE: RECRUITMENT
POSITION: TEAM LEADER:
APPLICATION DEADLINE: 17th March 2017
About Unleashed Academy:
The Unleashed Academy for Performing Arts and Leadership was founded and launched in 2016. It is to be an institution offering professional performing arts education coupled with leadership training to
young talented Africans. The Academy envisions a society where youth can receive internationally
recognized accreditation in performing arts style and art forms. We are positioning Tanzania to become a center for performing arts revolution in Africa.
Our vision is to see performing arts spearheading positive transformation in the world.
Our mission is to empower youth gifted in the performing art with artistic education and expose them
up to opportunities that would allow them to better understand, exercise then achieve their full
potential as artists, leaders and global citizens.
Currently the academy operates through the Unleashed Dance Studio in operation in Mikocheni B.
Team Leaders Job Description:
- Understand the full scale of the brand, its vision and mission, its core activities, structure and implementation plan.
- Develop the execution plans for the development of the brand.
- Network and link the brand with the right connections, persons and organizations to foster beneficial partnerships and synergies.
- Lead the launch of different brand assets.
- Research on competition and market position of the brand.
- Ensures company brand materials and physical working spaces meet and exceed company presentation standards
- Provides quality customer service, including interacting with customers, answering customer enquiries, and effectively handling customer complaints
Requirements:
- Hold considerable knowledge in the world of performing arts and arts in general.
- Demonstrate passion of the arts, artists’ growth and the development of the industry in Tanzania.
- Be well mapped and knowledgeable about the different players in the field of performing arts
- Be quick to learn and fast to execute
- Be solution driven
- Demonstrate experience in working in youth empowerment, projects or programs,
- Experience in an arts focused organization/project is a plus
- Ability to visualize success, develop strategic plans, build connections with relevant national and international stakeholders and execute strategic plans
- Ability to monitor and evaluate for success.
- Be able to develop proposals, budgets and letters for key engagements
- Have excellent communication skills: both written and spoken. Command of the English language is key
- Be conversant on the use of the internet and Microsoft office word, power point and excel
- Have good marketing and advertising knowledge
- Can perform research and map our key competitors, collaborations and prospective partners.
- Be self-driven and have a high ability to work independently, with minimal supervision.
Engagements:
- The Unleashed Academy for performing arts and leadership is a brand under Unleashed Africa. This is a start-up social enterprise with one of its root agendas being to create an environment where performing arts will be a driver of social economic advancement in Africa.
- Being a start-up, all efforts to reach sustainability are tied to implementation and results.
- A candidate must be willing to volunteer for the position for 3 months, before being considering for full time placement in the position.
Applications:
- Send a 2 page CV, 1 reference letter and a biography.
- Biography: Tell us about you in 1 paragraph. What moves you, what are your passions, what do you want to become. Lastly, in the 2nd paragraph, why do you want this position?
- Please do not copy-paste what you write in your biography. Be authentic
All applications must be sent to info@unleashedafrica.com with the subject line being Application for the UAPAL Team Leader position.
The deadline for applications is the 17th March 2017.
Only successful candidates shall be contacted. If you have not received feedback 5 days after
the deadline, kindly consider the application unsuccessful, thank you for applying