Nigeria Partnerships Officer

**Job Title: Nigeria Partnerships Officer**

**Location**: Lagos, Nigeria
**Contract Term**: 1 year, renewable
**Department**: WUSC Nigeria
**Reports To**: Nigeria Partnerships Manager

**Application deadline:** June 23, 2026
**Expected Start Date**: August 2026

**BACKGROUND**

WUSC is a Canadian global development organization working to catalyze positive education and economic outcomes for young people. We bring together and collaborate with a diverse network of partners (including students, volunteers, schools, governments, not-for-profits, and businesses) who share this mission. Together, we influence systems change, and foster inclusive, youth-centered solutions that enable young people to thrive and belong. We work with all young people, with a focus on women and displaced populations.

WUSC currently operates in 28 countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in Canada, with an annual budget of approximately CAD $65 million. Our global team includes over 100 staff in Canada and more than 250 staff internationally, implementing a diverse portfolio of development projects in collaboration with numerous multilateral and bilateral donors, and philanthropic foundations.

WUSC is currently recruiting a Nigeria Partnerships Officer who will provide support to the delivery of a five-year multi-country project, Pathways to Scale (P2S) supporting the growth of women led enterprises, particularly those led by young rural women. Funded by Mastercard Foundation, P2S is deploying a combination of targeted business development services and access to finance to support the sustainable growth of MSMEs led or owned by women. The project is implemented in Nigeria, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Ghana with a broad range of local partners. WUSC works in close partnership with the P2S Access to Finance partner, Seedstars, responsible for capital deployment, with WUSC coordinating business development services delivered in partnership with local Entrepreneur Support Organisations (ESOs).

WUSC will implement a robust learning strategy to assess multiple use cases for deploying both financial services and business development support (BDS), and to evaluate their impact on traditionally underserved groups, particularly young women in rural areas. WUSC has the overall management responsibility of the project.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

Under the supervision of the Nigeria Partnerships Manager, the Nigeria Partnerships Officer will support the development, coordination, and management of strategic partnerships for the Pathways to Scale (P2S) project in Nigeria. The Officer will engage partners, support stakeholder coordination, monitor project activities, support existing Nigeria partners, and contribute to the successful delivery of project objectives. His/her roles and responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:

**Partner Relations and Communications:**

- Support to maintain effective relationships with key project partners in Nigeria.
- Maintain existing relationships with country level project stakeholders, including the funder, the access to finance lead partner, relevant governments and ESOs.
- Support to ensure that the project can provide value to local actors and make a positive impact within the entrepreneurial ecosystem.
- Manage relationships with ESOs, ensuring effective communication, timely delivery of agreed milestones, and compliance with program requirements.

**Program Management Support:**

- Provide logistical and administrative support for project activities in Nigeria across the different states where the project is being implemented
- Support key project planning deliverables (i.e. Annual Work Plans) using results based management approaches and tools;
- Support the integration of specific strategies for cross-cutting themes (capacity building, gender equality, youth and refugee inclusion, disability inclusion, enterprise support and capital allocation) for the initiative
- Share in WUSC’s commitment and approach to advance gender equality and social inclusion for all young people
- Maintain open and effective communication amongst local partners.

**Reporting**:

- Provide support to the project team to implement, revise and update the project work plans and strategies
- Contribute to the development of project annual work plans and annual reports for submission to the donor, showcasing success stories and highlighting key results
- Support to monitor ESO reporting and documentation processes, including tracking submissions, reviewing reports and supporting documents for completeness, resolving gaps, and supporting the onboarding of new partners on programme expectations, timelines, and reporting standards.
- Work closely with the Safeguarding and Inclusion Advisor to ensure that the GESI considerations, such as inclusion of refugees, displaced persons and persons with disabilities are integrated into activities according to the GESI str