• Application Deadline:
• Position: Programme Manager



• Job Type Full Time



• Qualification BA/BSc/HND



• Experience



• Location Lagos




• Job Field Project Management 
  
  

Job Description | Programme Manager, Gender Equity Certification (GEC)

Framework:

• African Women on Board (AWB) 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.


• 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, workplans 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, workplans, 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.

 Qualification

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (for example, economics, international development, gender studies, business administration, law, mass communication).


• 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.