Chief of Staff at Tailored Talent

Tailored Talent is recruiting suitably qualified candidates to fill the position below:

Job Title: Chief of Staff

Location: Abuja (FCT) 
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Overview

• The Chief of Staff will serve as the CEO’s strategic execution partner, driving alignment, accountability, and momentum across the organization.
• This role combines strategy, operations, communication, and special projects.
• The Chief of Staff ensures priorities move quickly, decisions are executed, and internal teams remain focused on the highest-value initiatives.
• This is a high-trust, high-impact role for someone who can think strategically, operate tactically, and solve problems independently.

Key Responsibilities
Executive Leverage and Strategic Support:

• Act as a force multiplier for the CEO by managing priorities, follow-through, and decision flow.
• Prepare daily and weekly executive briefings covering priorities, risks, deadlines, and opportunities.
• Convert CEO ideas into structured action plans, owners, and timelines.
• Ensure the CEO’s time is focused on fundraising, partnerships, growth, and strategic leadership.

Cross Functional Execution:

• Drive execution of key company initiatives across operations, partnerships, technology, and project delivery.
• Coordinate teams to ensure milestones are met on time and blockers are escalated quickly.
• Lead weekly business reviews and progress tracking meetings.

Special Projects:

• Own high-priority CEO initiatives such as market expansion, fundraising readiness, new partnerships, or product launches.
• Conduct research, build business cases, and recommend execution strategies.

Internal Communications and Accountability:

• Ensure clear communication of priorities across leadership and teams.
• Track commitments made in meetings and enforce follow-up.
• Build reporting systems, dashboards, and accountability cadences.

Stakeholder Management:

• Support preparation for investor, donor, board, government, and strategic partner meetings.
• Draft briefing notes, presentations, memos, and follow-up summaries.

Organizational Effectiveness:

• Identify inefficiencies and implement systems, processes, and automation.
• Help build a high-performance culture centered on ownership, speed, and transparency.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• CEO time leverage and priority completion rate
• Strategic initiatives delivered on time
• Cross-functional project execution success
• Decision-to-execution speed
• Internal accountability scorecards completed
• Stakeholder meeting readiness and follow-through
• Process improvements implemented.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Economics, Public Policy, Finance, Management, or related fields
• MBA is a plus.
• 5+ years experience in consulting, strategy, operations, startups, venture building, development finance, or executive support.
• Exceptional project management and execution discipline.
• Strong analytical thinking and business judgment.
• Excellent writing, presentation, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage confidential information with discretion.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, founder-led environment.

Preferred Experience:

• Experience in startups, tech platforms, donor ecosystems, ESG, philanthropy, or African development sectors.
• Experience working directly with founders, CEOs, or senior executives.
• Familiarity with dashboards, CRMs, productivity systems, and data tools.

Ideal Candidate Profile:

• You are highly organized, commercially minded, politically aware, and relentlessly execution-focused.
• You can move from boardroom strategy to operational detail in the same hour.
• You anticipate needs, reduce chaos, and make leaders more effective.

What We Offer

• Compensation - Competitive salary (N700,000 - N1,000,000 monthly) and benefits package in a collaborative and purpose-driven environment.
• Culture - Join a mission-driven organisation committed to measurable impact across Africa.
• Growth- Opportunities for continuous learning, development, and career progression.
• Impact- You will play a direct role in ensuring projects achieve intended outcomes and beneficiaries receive meaningful value.

Application Closing Date
3rd May, 2026.