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Campus PMO Talent Accelerator

Campuses are usually treated as audiences. We treat them as execution networks. The Campus PMO Talent Accelerator recruits, trains and deploys student project leaders who run campaign activations, pillar competitions and outreach on their own campuses, working to charters, work plans and monitoring-and-evaluation reporting.

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Mandate

What a campus PMO actually does

Charter first

Every campus team opens with a signed charter: scope, named roles, deliverables, timeline and the safeguarding rules that apply to every activity.

Run activations

Recruitment drives, submission clinics, pillar competitions, viewing parties and employer sessions — planned as projects with owners and dates.

Report on M&E

Monthly reporting against agreed indicators: reach, submissions, completion, conversion into programmes. Numbers the Foundation can publish.

Leave a credential

Leads finish with a documented portfolio of delivered work — the thing employers actually ask for — plus a reference from the Foundation.

Pathways

Where a campus PMO lead goes next

Participants may progress toward capability development, mentorship, scholarship-supported learning, applied projects, internships and employer opportunities where available, and FutureReady fellow/alumni pathways. Progression is not a guaranteed placement.

→ Power Up Women Africa

Female leads route into Young Women Rising and Women Project Leaders Africa for continued leadership development.

→ Certification pathways

Preparation toward recognised project-management certifications, delivered by independent education partners. Scholarship support is applied for separately through the Foundation.

→ Enterprise readiness

Leads with a venture idea may join enterprise-readiness activity where it is available. No funding, investment or commercial service is implied.

→ GSTLW

Data collection roles and the volunteer corps supporting the Foundation's summits and forums.

Pilot

Pilot geography: Cameroon first

The pilot runs on a tight hub geography so support is real rather than theoretical: Limbe, Douala and Yaoundé. One regional coordinator, three hubs, a shared calendar and in-person quality checks. The model expands only after the pilot cohort reports complete cycles — charter to M&E close-out.

Limbe hub — coastal campuses and enterprise linkages.
Douala hub — employer density and industry activations.
Yaoundé hub — public institutions, policy exposure and national university partners.

Roles

Who we are recruiting

Campus PMO Lead

Runs the campus team, owns the charter and the reporting.

Activations Officer

Plans and delivers events, clinics and competitions.

Communications Officer

Campus comms, recruitment content and story capture.

M&E Officer

Data collection, verification and monthly reporting.

Safeguarding Focal Point

Trained point of contact for concerns, reporting into the Foundation's safeguarding process.

Faculty Sponsor

A named staff member at the university who endorses the team and holds the institutional relationship.

Standards

Non-negotiables

Safeguarding training before any activity involving minors or vulnerable participants.
No cash handling by student teams. All finance runs through the Foundation.
No campus team may sign contracts, raise invoices or represent the Foundation commercially.
Every reported number must be traceable to a named source record.

Campus PMO interest list

Tell us your university and what you want to run. We open recruitment by hub, and we contact the interest list first.