Co-Curricular Programmes Manager

Demonstrated experience leading student-facing programmes at scale.

Experience managing budgets and contributing to financially sustainable programme models.

The Co-Curricula Programmes Manager provides strategic and operational leadership for ALU Rwanda’s co-curricular and non-academic programmes, ensuring they are high-quality, integrated with academic programmes, financially sustainable, and strongly aligned with ALU’s mission.

The role leads the operations, delivery, and continuous improvement of co-curricular functions, including the Writing Centre, Student Success, Career Services (Student Professional Development), and Further Studies Support, as well as non-academic offerings such as Leadership Core (LC) Bootcamp and bridging programmes (e.g.

Working closely with the Director of Academics, programme managers, careers, and external partners, this role ensures students are well prepared for ALU, supported throughout their journey, and successfully transitioned into our graduate pathways.

ALU provides higher education for a higher purpose. Our students declare missions, not majors.

They develop the real-world skills to take on the world’s most pressing challenges. And they take ownership of their learning from day one through our peer and student-led approach – because ALU believes in the power and agency of young people to start shaping the future right now.

Together with a world-class faculty and staff, our students are igniting a ripple of positive impact across Africa and the world.

As a high-growth start-up, the ALU Team works in starkly different ways to traditional academic bureaucracies. We approach education from first principles, empower individuals to design, test, and implement creative new ideas, and work closely together to craft transformative learning experiences. We are deeply passionate about our students and excited by the challenge of building something entirely new.

The African Leadership University is committed to ensuring the safety and Well-being of all students under our care. As part of this commitment , we have a comprehensive safeguarding policy in place , which outlines our Zero-tolerance approach to any violation of safeguarding.