Manager, Business Performance & Analysis

ABOUT ALU

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.

We are dedicated to fostering an open yet secure environment, balancing the safety of students, staff, and visitors with respect for individual rights, and safeguarding responsibilities.
HOW WE WORK

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.
ABOUT THE TEAM

The Business Performance & Analysis team is one of ALU ’s core performance intelligence functions, providing the insight, analysis and challenge required to help leaders understand performance, make informed decisions and improve institutional outcomes.

Working across academic and professional functions, the team goes beyond reporting what has happened to understand why it happened, what it means, what is likely to happen next, and what action is required. It brings together performance data, analysis and external benchmarks to identify trends, risks, opportunities and areas for improvement.

The team connects strategy, performance and execution by strengthening performance measurement, supporting decision-making and helping leaders translate insight into action. Its impact is measured not by the volume of reports produced, but by the quality of decisions informed and the improvements in institutional performance that follow.
ABOUT THE ROLE

The institution generates a great deal of information and data across campuses, programmes and systems held by functions with different definitions and different reporting rhythms.

The Manager, Business Performance & Analysis will assemble it, identify what matters in it and put that in front of the people who have to decide. You are expected to find the insight inside fragmented institutional information and make it usable by the people who have to act on it.

This role goes beyond producing analysis to deciding what the analysis means, what can reasonably be concluded from it, and the form in which that meaning will actually land. The role will enable the University to act on what its own information is telling it by bringing together fragmented evidence, establishing what matters and putting it in front of the right person in a form they can use.
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

Research, Economic Analysis and Insight (the core of the role)

- Produce quantitative and economic analysis underpinning material submitted to the Executive Committee and the Board including scenario work, unit economics, capacity and cost modelling, cost behaviour, and the baseline scenario against which a decision should be judged.

- Take fragmentary, inconsistent and incomplete inputs from several functions and produce one defensible view, with the areas of remaining uncertainty named rather than smoothed over. This is the central skill of the role.

- Interrogate the question behind the request. Where the question as asked will not produce a useful answer, clarify the decision that needs to be supported and propose the more useful