• Application Deadline: Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT
• Position: New Project Incubation & Front-end Development Specialist



• Job Type Contract



• Qualification BA/BSc/HND



• Experience 5 - 10 years



• Location Rivers




• City Port Harcourt




• Job Field Engineering / Technical 
  
  

ROLE SUMMARY

• This role strengthens the organization’s front-end development engine by driving rigorous early-stage project maturation. The associate will orchestrate structured opportunity framing, technical and


• commercial evaluation, and strategic alignment for offshore and onshore venture spaces. The mandate centers on shaping opportunity premises, validating feasibility, optimizing economics, and securing


• investment-ready outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

Front-End Planning & Concept Framings

• Lead front-end development (FEL 0–1) activities for emerging opportunities.


• Develop project premises, framing documents, strategic options, and boundary conditions.


• Coordinate cross-functional review cycles to validate technical contours, commercial logic, and execution pathways.


• Lead early-stage risk and opportunity assessments to shape development direction.

Technical & Commercial Evaluation (Offshore & Onshore Scope)

• Conduct conceptual technical evaluations, engineering scoping, and feasibility assessments.


• Partners with discipline leads to frame concept alternatives, cost drivers, execution and constructability considerations.


• Perform first-pass economic assessments including value modelling, capex/opex screening, breakeven analysis, and sensitivities.


• Support early regulatory screening and sustainability considerations.

Strategy, Funding & Business Case Development

• Develop investment rationale, funding strategy options, and commercialization pathways.


• Support structuring of partnerships, JV opportunities, and market entry strategies.


• Build business case packages for gate reviews, leadership engagement, and external partner alignment.


• enchmark global trends, technology readiness, and competitiveness.

Project Maturation & Stage-Gate Readiness

• Drive project maturation from ideation to concept-select stage.


• Maintain project documentation, risk registers, development paths, and decision logs.


• Track milestones, risks, and interdependencies across technical and commercial workstreams.


• Ensure cross-functional integration in early-stage project delivery.

Job Requirement

Qualifications & Experience

• achelor’s in Engineering, Geosciences, Economics, Business, or related field; Master’s an advantage.


• 5–10 years’ experience in FEL, business development, or early-stage project maturation.


• Strong technical and commercial understanding of offshore/onshore energy assets.


• Experience within oil & gas value chains.

Key Competencies

• FEL and project framing expertise


• Technical-commercial integration capability


• Strong analytical and strategic thinking


• Cross-functional stakeholder engagement


• Executive communication and synthesis skills


• Agile and solution-oriented mindset