Work at BOLO IT
Academic / Curriculum Lead
The first academic appointment after the Executive Director — accountable for completing the curriculum, teaching frameworks and assessment standards across all three pathways before the first cohort arrives.
Design the curriculum an institution opens with.
BOLO IT is seeking an experienced academic — a programme leader, head of department or senior lecturer — to complete and validate the curriculum for its Higher National Diploma, Bachelor's and Master's pathways, and to build the teaching, assessment and quality frameworks the institution will open with.
This page summarises the role. The full recruitment profile is available to download below.
- Location
- Cameroon
- Employment
- Full-time | Academic leadership
- Reports to
- Executive Director
- Expected start
- December 2026
- Sector
- Higher education | Technology | Curriculum
The institution
BOLO Institute of Technology is a technology-focused higher-education institution in Cameroon, architected around three pathways — Higher National Diploma, Bachelor's and Master's — and being developed to prepare technology professionals, innovators, researchers and entrepreneurs for opportunities in Cameroon, across Africa and internationally.
BOLO IT is being built around a distinctive educational model: rigorous academics combined with hands-on laboratories, real-world projects, internships, professional certifications, mentorship and instruction shaped by experienced technology practitioners. The institution is intentionally globally oriented, AI-enabled and Silicon Valley-inspired.
Our ambition
A student educated at BOLO IT in Cameroon should leave with the academic foundation, practical capability, AI fluency, professional exposure and confidence to compete with technology talent anywhere in the world.
The opportunity
The Academic / Curriculum Lead turns BOLO IT's educational model into teachable material. In the pre-launch phase the role covers curriculum completion and validation, module and assessment design, the academic calendar, teaching standards and the brief against which the first faculty are recruited. From launch, it carries responsibility for academic quality across delivery — teaching observation, assessment moderation, student progression and the improvement of every programme after its first run.
Leadership mandate
- Complete and validate the curriculum for all three pathways so teaching can begin on day one.
- Translate the institution's practice-led model into modules, laboratories, projects and assessments — not lecture notes alone.
- Set assessment and academic-integrity standards a regulator, an employer and a partner university would each recognise.
- Build the teaching framework part-time lecturers deliver against, so quality does not depend on who is in the room.
- Embed AI, cloud, software, data and cybersecurity practice into coursework wherever it is academically justified.
- Establish the moderation and review cycle that improves each programme after its first run.
Core responsibilities
Curriculum design & validation
Complete module specifications, learning outcomes, credit structures and progression rules across the three pathways, and carry them through internal validation and any regulatory review required before teaching begins.
Assessment & academic standards
Design the assessment scheme for every module, set marking criteria and moderation practice, and establish the academic-integrity rules — including how AI use is assessed rather than merely prohibited.
Practical & laboratory learning
Specify the laboratory work, projects and portfolio requirements that make the practice-led model real, and define the equipment, software and technician support each requires.
Teaching frameworks & faculty support
Build the module handbooks, delivery guidance and observation practice that a mixed team of core faculty and part-time lecturers teaches against, and support lecturers new to the institution's standards.
Academic calendar & regulations
Establish the teaching calendar, examination timetable, progression and award regulations, and the records practice that supports them.
Faculty recruitment & development
Write the academic brief for faculty and lecturer recruitment, sit on selection panels, and design induction and continuing development for teaching staff.
Quality assurance & improvement
Run the review cycle — student feedback, results analysis, external input and revision — so each programme is measurably better in its second year than its first.
Required qualifications
- Master's degree as a minimum in computing, engineering, education or a related discipline; a doctorate is an advantage.
- Substantial higher-education teaching experience, with programme-level or departmental responsibility.
- Demonstrated experience writing or substantially revising a higher-education curriculum, including learning outcomes, assessment schemes and moderation practice.
- Working knowledge of Cameroonian higher-education regulation and the HND framework, or the capacity to acquire it quickly.
- Current enough in technology practice — software, cloud, data or cybersecurity — to judge whether coursework reflects how the work is actually done.
- Able to work in both English and French; teaching materials and regulatory correspondence exist in both.
The leader we are looking for
This role suits an academic who would rather build a programme than inherit one, and who judges a curriculum by what students can do at the end of it.
- Academic rigour
- Holds standards that survive external scrutiny, and can explain why each one exists.
- Practitioner literacy
- Knows how technology work is done today, and can tell current practice from dated syllabus.
- Documentation discipline
- Writes specifications, regulations and handbooks that other people can teach from without asking.
- Collaborative instinct
- Builds curriculum with lecturers and employers rather than handing it down finished.
- Regulatory fluency
- Comfortable working inside a national framework without letting compliance flatten the programme.
- Student-centred judgement
- Designs for what a graduate will be able to do, not for what is easiest to timetable.
Download the full recruitment profile
The full profile carries the six-month mandate, the success measures and the graduate profile in full.
Download the full recruitment profile (PDF)We believe world-class technology talent can be developed anywhere.
Interested?
Our ambition is to build one of Africa's leading technology institutions and develop graduates capable of competing with technology talent anywhere in the world.
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