Director, Policy and Partnerships (North-West Nigeria)
Katsina, Katsina, Nigeria · Katsina · Posted Oct 11, 2026
At a glance
- Location
- Katsina, Katsina, Nigeria · Katsina
About the role
- As the Director, Policy & Partnerships, you oversee an entire program’s large-scale, government-led, system-wide education transformation within all new locations.
- You are responsible for building and managing diverse stakeholder relationships, and focussed on account management and sustaining our work and operations in the territory.
- You own the government engagement with the diverse stakeholders and the many moving parts involved in our work in the territory as the first point of call for communication.
Responsibilities
- Report to the Regional Director, to help build partnerships, relationships and execute strategies to sustain our goals across the specific program.
- Work closely with the Programme Development counterparts and regional leadership, be responsible for overseeing key government relationships and programming.
- Ensure creation of governance committees according to core programming guidelines, and establish a regular meeting schedule.
- Ensure thorough weekly and monthly reporting to the government begins and is continued under permanent programme leadership.
- Manage and oversee all Policy and Partnerships program staff (focussed on Programme Management).
- Manage the diverse strategic stakeholder management across multiple Government departments and levels within those departments.
- Establish and implement short- and long-range goals, objectives, policies and operating procedures for the government relations support function.
- Map all key government officials, and create a plan for management of each.
- Work with key stakeholders on consultative efforts to drive reforms in delivery of education to underserved communities.
- Utilize lead management techniques and maintain a detailed and dynamic database of these key influencer communities while tracking progress of programme launch.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree with superior academic performance
- Over 4 years’ experience in government program delivery or working in account management or as an engagement manager
- In depth experience building and systematically managing key complex relationships and accounts to ensure program delivery in a complex, multi-stakeholder program or project
- Confidence, authority, and level-headed decision making needed as the leadership voice for the program
- Ability to balance commercial interests and social benefits - a blend across business and political acumen, but also high emotional intelligence and relationship-building skills
- Experience acting as an on-the-record spokesperson
- Highly capable and thoughtful problem-solving skills; able to act as an intermediary and a solutions driven lead
Preferred qualifications
- Previous experience working with a Ministry of Education on program delivery, preferred
- Experience with another government delivery program or project, such as in health or ICT if not within education
- Knowledge of local, state and federal government issues related to the provision of primary education in the country would be preferred
- Prior experience within a fast-paced, high-growth, metric-driven operational organization will be an advantage
