Chief of Staff (COS) at KALTANI

Kaltani is one of West Africa's most ambitious waste-to-value platforms, delivering large-scale recycling, landfill management, and circular economy solutions across Nigeria under long term state concessions. Backed by a culture of innovation, data-driven decision-making, andan unwavering commitment to environmental impact, Kaltani is scaling rapidly across multiplestates. As the CEO's strategic partner, the Chief of Staff will be central to orchestrating thisgrowth translating executive vision into disciplined institutional action.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Chief of Staff (COS)

Location: Lekki Phase 1, Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time

Role Purpose

• The Chief of Staff (COS) is one of the most strategic roles at Kaltani, a force multiplier for the CEO and the entire executive leadership team. This is not a traditional support role.
• The CoS will function as a strategic operator: owning critical cross-functional initiatives, ensuring organisational alignment, eliminating execution gaps, and serving as the connective link
• between the CEO's office and every function of the business. This role is built for a high-calibre operator who combines sharp analytical intelligence with
• exceptional interpersonal influence, thrives in complexity, and is driven by the ambition to shape one of Africa's defining green infrastructure enterprises.

Key Responsibilities
Strategic Planning & Execution Management:

• Serve as the primary architect of the CEO's strategic agenda translating vision and highlevel objectives into structured, time-bound execution plans across the organisation.
• Own the design and management of Kaltani's corporate strategy calendar, including quarterly business reviews, annual planning cycles, board preparation, and investor engagement timelines.
• Monitor execution of strategic initiatives across all functions, proactively identifying bottlenecks, misalignments, and risks before they escalate to the CEO.
• Develop and maintain an enterprise-wide OKR (Objectives and Key Results) framework, ensuring all departments are aligned to organisational priorities and accountable for delivery.
• Lead post-decision tracking: turning CEO and Board decisions into clear action registers with owners, timelines, and accountability metrics.

CEO Office & Executive Enablement:

• Manage the CEO's bandwidth strategically structuring priorities, pre-empting demands, and protecting time for the highest-value decisions and engagements.
• Prepare and co-author high-stakes executive deliverables: Board reports, investor presentations, strategic memos, government briefs, and leadership communications.
• Lead briefing preparation for all major CEO meetings, ensuring the CEO enters every engagement informed, prepared, and positioned for optimal outcomes.
• Act as a trusted proxy for the CEO in cross-functional meetings, executive working groups, and external engagements where delegation is appropriate.
• Ensure consistent communication of CEO directives across the organisation, following up to confirm understanding and execution.

Cross-Functional Coordination & Organisational Alignment:

• Serve as the primary integration point across Kaltani's functional leadership teams Operations, Finance, Technology, HR, Government Relations, and Business Development.
• Design and lead the cadence of cross-functional leadership forums (weekly leadership syncs, monthly performance reviews, quarterly strategy offsites) ensuring they drive decisions, not just discussion.
• Identify and resolve organisational silos, interdependency failures, and communication breakdowns that impede execution speed and quality.
• Facilitate alignment on critical resource allocation decisions, competing priorities, and inter-departmental trade-offs, escalating only what genuinely requires CEO adjudication.
• Steward the organisational culture: model and reinforce Kaltani's values of accountability, excellence, and innovation in every operational touchpoint.

Special Projects & High-Priority Initiatives:

• Conduct deep-dive analyses on critical business challenges: operational inefficiencies, growth opportunities, competitive dynamics, or risk exposures and present structured, actionable recommendations to the CEO.
• Lead or co-lead high-priority, time-sensitive projects.
• Act as project management office (PMO) for CEO-sponsored initiatives, ensuring rigour in scoping, resourcing, tracking, and closure.
• Drive scenario planning and contingency preparation for high-stakes decisions, providing the CEO with clear options, trade-offs, and recommended paths forward.

Governance, Reporting & Board Relations:

• Lead preparation and coordination of all Board of Directors meetings: agenda setting, pack development, logistics, and follow-up action management.
• Maintain a comprehensive governance calendar and ensure all statutory, regulatory, and investor reporting obligations are met with precision and timeliness.
• Manage relationships with Board members, investors, and external advisors on behalf of the CEO's office, ensuring responsive, professional, and substantive engagement.
• Build and maintain an institutional knowledge repository decisions log, strategic commitments tracker, partnership agreements ensuring organisational memory is preserved and accessible.

Stakeholder Management & External Relations:

• Represent the CEO's office in high-level engagements with government agencies, development finance institutions (DFIs), ESG investors, and strategic partners.
• Coordinate Kaltani's participation in industry forums, conferences, and policy dialogues managing positioning, messaging, and follow-through.
• Support the development and execution of Kaltani's external communications strategy, including press engagements, thought leadership content, and impact reporting.
• Build and manage a structured stakeholder mapping and engagement system, ensuring the CEO maintains high-quality relationships with the people and institutions that matter most to Kaltani's growth.

Organisational Development & Culture:

• Partner with the CEO and HR leadership on organisational design decisions, leadership appointments, and succession planning for critical roles.
• Lead or support the design of high-performance culture initiatives: leadership development programmes, employee engagement strategies, and accountability frameworks.
• Act as a sounding board and advisor to senior leaders across the organisation facilitating honest dialogue, surfacing systemic issues, and building cohesion within the executive team.
• Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion as embedded features of Kaltani's talent and culture strategy, not peripheral commitments.

Data Intelligence & Decision Support:

• Build and maintain an executive intelligence function: synthesising data from across operations, finance, HR, and commercial functions into coherent insights for CEO decision-making.
• Develop and manage a CEO-level performance dashboard providing real-time visibility on Kaltani's most critical strategic, operational, and financial metrics.
• Spear head quality-control research, benchmarking, and competitive analysis to inform strategic options and sharpen Kaltani's positioning.
• Champion the use of AI and digital tools within the CEO's office to improve the speed, quality, and traceability of executive decision-making.

Requirements
Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, Law, Social Sciences, or a related discipline (required).
• MBA or advanced postgraduate degree from a globally recognised institution (strongly preferred).
• Certifications in project management (PMP, PRINCE2), strategy, or leadership are strongly advantageous.

Experience:

• 10 –12+ years of progressive professional experience spanning strategy, operations, management consulting, or executive leadership with demonstrable impact at each stage.
• Minimum 3–5 years in a Chief of Staff, Strategy Director, Senior Executive Advisor, or equivalent role within a complex, fast-scaling organisation, development finance institution, or Tier 1 consulting firm.
• Proven track record of managing and delivering complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives from scoping through execution to measurable outcomes.
• Experience working directly with C-suite executives or Board members is reuired.
• Experience in high-growth, mission-driven organisations operating at the intersection of commercial performance and social impact is especially valued.

Skills and Competencies:

• Exceptional strategic thinking and systems-level problem solving: able to see the full picture while managing granular complexity.
• Outstanding written and verbal communication: able to craft compelling Board reports, CEO speeches, investor narratives, and internal memos with equal fluency.
• Superior project management and execution discipline: skilled in structuring ambiguous problems into clear workplans with owners, timelines, and KPIs.
• High political intelligence and executive presence: comfortable operating at the intersection of internal power dynamics and external stakeholder relationships.
• Analytical rigour: proficient in data analysis, financial modelling, and translating complex datasets into clear strategic insights.
• Deep discretion and unimpeachable integrity: the CEO's office handles the most sensitive information in the organisation absolute confidentiality is non-negotiable.
• Adaptability and speed: able to pivot seamlessly between long-term strategy and urgent operational demands, often on the same day.
• Collaborative leadership without direct authority: the ability to align and mobilise peers, seniors, and cross-functional teams through influence, not hierarchy.
• Digital fluency: strong command of productivity, collaboration, and data tools; champion of AI-augmented workflows within the CEO's office.
• Emotional intelligence and resilience: capable of managing high-pressure environments, difficult conversations, and complex relationships with grace and composure.

Compensation and Benefits

• Salary: N30,000,000 - N35,000,000 Annually.
• Component Details - Base Salary Competitive executive remuneration benchmarked to sector and market standards
• Performance Incentive KPI-linked bonus tied to strategic, organisational, and operational target.
• Equity Participation - Employee Share Option Plan (ESOP) aligned to long-term companygrowth milestones.
• Health & Insurance Health insurance coverage.
• Travel & Logistics Travel allowance and logistics support for executive engagements.

Application Closing Date
30th May, 2026.

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