Programme Manager at African Women on Board (AWB) - Reposebay HR Consulting

Reposebay HR Consulting - Our client, African Women on Board (AWB), a non-profit organization, is building the Gender Equity Certification (GEC) Framework, a practical, evidence-based programme that supports organisations to assess, strengthen, and demonstrate equitable workplace systems across governance, policy, culture, and practice.

They are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Programme Manager

Location: Victoria Island, Lagos 
Employment Type: Full-time (Hybrid, 3 days onsite, potentially more as need demands)

Role Overview

• The Programme Manager will own end-to-end delivery and programme readiness for scale, working closely with AWB leadership, technical partners, and participating organisations across Nigeria and wider Africa.

Core Objectives

• Lead end-to-end delivery of the GEC programme across participating organisations and cohorts, ensuring high-quality delivery to scope and timeline.
• Establish and run programme governance, reporting, and risk management, maintaining a repeatable operating model, tools, and templates.
• Lead engagement with technical and content partners, assessors, trainers, and participating organisations, ensuring clear roles, work plans, and performance.
• Protect certification integrity through consistent methodology, evidence requirements, quality assurance, and robust documentation.

Responsibilities
Programme Leadership:

• Translate the GEC strategy into a delivery plan with milestones, resourcing, dependencies, risks, and budget oversight.
• Run programme governance including cadence meetings, decision-making, RAID management, escalation, and leadership reporting.
• Maintain programme artefacts including playbooks, SOPs, templates, and reporting dashboards, and oversee delivery from onboarding through assessment to certification recommendation, continuously improving the model over time.

Stakeholder Engagement & Management:

• Serve as the day-to-day relationship lead for participating organisations, maintaining clarity on scope, timelines, evidence requirements, and deliverables.
• Coordinate partners and subcontractors, including scope definition, work plans, deliverables tracking, quality review, and performance management.
• Facilitate working sessions, workshops, and leadership briefings, and support proposals, sponsor updates, and external positioning materials as required.

Client Onboarding & Management:

• Lead onboarding and readiness including baseline data requests, orientation sessions, access management, and delivery scheduling.
• Guide organisations through the assessment and action planning journey, resolving issues quickly and maintaining stakeholder engagement.
• Ensure confidentiality and evidence handling expectations including secure storage, access control, and appropriate audit trails, and track delivery health and impact metrics to inform scale.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field (e.g., economics, international development, gender studies, business administration, law, mass communication).
• A minimum of 6 years of project management experience, with at least 4of those years, in a more senior role, handling end-to-end programme delivery.
• Proven programme management experience delivering complex, multi-stakeholder programmes. Experience in certification schemes, audits, assessments, or maturity models is an advantage.
• Strong operational discipline covering planning, documentation, governance, risk and issue management, and delivery reporting.
• Experience working on gender equity, ESG, organisational development, human capital, compliance, or governance-related initiatives would be an advantage, particularly where this has involved systems design, assessment, or institutional change.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and writing skills, with high integrity and discretion when handling confidential and sensitive information.

Salary
N1,000,000 - N2,000,000 / Month. (Dependent on candidates’ experience and capability).

Application Closing Date
28th February, 2026.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note

• Use the link below to apply with a CV and Cover Letter, telling us how you believe your past experiences make you the right fit for this role.
• Only candidates with clear end-to-end programme delivery capability, strong stakeholder management, and the confidence to lead and scale the GEC programme will be shortlisted.