Project Lead at IDYHA Capital (3 Openings)

IDYHA Capital - At idyha we believe in the immense potential of regions businesses and partner with exceptional management teams to help them thrive. We identify and address critical gaps that hinder business growth.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Project Lead

Locations: Abuja (FCT), Kaduna, and Nasarawa
Employment Type: Contract

Job Overview

• We are seeking a motivated, strategic, and detail-oriented Project Lead to join our team for the Green Schools for Climate Action Project.
• This role is ideal for a professional who can ownership of both the strategic and operational aspects of a high-level impact driven climate project.
• The successful candidate should possess strong leadership, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• You will collaborate with internal teams, manage field-based activities, and coordinate with schools, communities, government agencies, and technical partners to ensure project objectives are met.
• This opportunity is ideal for someone who is organised, proactive, and committed to delivering meaningful environmental and community impact.

Key Responsibilities
Strategic Leadership & Planning:

• Lead overall planning, execution, performance management, and strategic decision-making.
• Translate the strategic direction into actionable implementation plans.
• Provide strategic oversight on climate resilience, behavior-change approaches, and sustainability integration.
• Conduct curriculum climate change gap analysis for secondary and tertiary education and recommend interventions
• Lead and manage research activities.
• Lead scenario planning, risk mitigation strategy, and project adaptation processes.

Stakeholder & Partner Engagement:

• Coordinate engagement with schools, communities, state/local government agencies, and technical partners.
• Represent the project at strategic stakeholder forums.

Project Oversight & Quality Management:

• Monitor and manage project progress, risks, KPIs, and quality benchmarks across all project components.
• Review tools, frameworks, and key documentation from the Delivery and Implementation teams.
• Ensure compliance with donor, institutional, and environmental standards.

Reporting:

• Prepare high-quality reports and presentations for every milestone of the project.

Team Leadership & Coordination:

• Provide leadership, and supervision to internal project teams.
• Facilitate alignment across Implementation, Delivery, and Analyst manager functions.

Qualifications

• Candidates should possess relevant qualifications.
• Proven experience in developing climate change-related curricula for diverse age groups
• Hands-on experience conducting research, gap analysis, and feasibility studies in climate education or related fields.
• Demonstrated excellence in report writing with a track record of producing high-quality, data-driven project reports for donors and stakeholders.
• 4+ years of experience leading large-scale development or climate programs, with measurable impact
• Strong expertise in strategy development, stakeholder engagement, project leadership, and project reporting.
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and people management skills.
• Proven success in leading community development initiatives, with tangible outcomes.
• Skilled in synthesizing complex data and insights into high-level, actionable reports and presentations.

Salary
N500,000 - N700,000 / Month.

Application Closing Date
12th December, 2025.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: cynthia.onuoha@idyha.com using the Job Title as the subject of the email.

Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted.