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Join the Royal Iwere Foundation Team

The Royal Iwere Foundation (RIF) is seeking dedicated, value-driven, and impact-oriented individuals to join our growing team. We are committed to delivering sustainable community development initiatives across maternal health, youth empowerment, climate action, institutional strengthening, and strategic partnerships. We believe in excellence, accountability, professionalism, and measurable impact.

How to Apply

Interested applicants should apply by clicking the link below. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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About Royal Iwere Foundation

Royal Iwere Foundation is the humanitarian arm of Their Royal Majesties, Ogiame Atuwatse III, CFR, 21st Olu of Warri Kingdom and Olori Atuwatse III, Queen Consort, Warri Kingdom Monarchy.

We seek to create a future Warri Kingdom where every individual, regardless of background, has the opportunity to thrive, inspired by a rich cultural heritage and driven by educational and socio-economic empowerment.

Our Mission

To empower the people of the Warri Kingdom and the South-South region through education and the development of sustainable, indigenous solutions. We facilitate transformation from powerlessness to strength and self-reliance, propelling individuals towards a future where they can realise their full potential and actively contribute to the development of their community.

We provide physical, mental, and entrepreneurial support to indigenes of the Warri Kingdom, thoroughly equipping them with viable means to thrive in society, and ultimately changing prevailing narratives within the region.

Role Details

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Position Overview: Strategic leadership and oversight for the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of programmes at RIF. Supervises Project Leads to ensure alignment with RIF mission, donor requirements, and measurable impact.

Key Responsibilities
  • Oversee planning and execution of programme activities across thematic areas.
  • Ensure programmes are delivered on time, within scope, and within budget.
  • Provide technical guidance and supervision to Programme Officers and Associates.
  • Coordinate with internal departments to ensure seamless programme delivery.
  • Establish monitoring and reporting frameworks to track performance and impact.
  • Review programme reports, data, and documentation for quality and compliance.
  • Facilitate learning, reflection, and adaptation to improve outcomes.
  • Ensure compliance with organisational policies, donor requirements, and safeguarding standards.
  • Identify programme risks and develop mitigation strategies.
Required Qualifications and Skills
  • Degree in Development Studies, Public Health, Social Sciences, Education, Public Administration, Law, or related field.
  • Postgraduate qualification is an advantage.
  • 5-8 years of progressive programme management experience.
  • Experience leading teams and managing donor-funded programmes.
  • Strong organisational and coordination skills.
  • Good written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to multitask and manage deadlines.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
Core Competencies
  • Strategic thinking
  • Programme coordination
  • Monitoring and evaluation
  • Communication
  • Adaptability
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Accountability
Personal Attributes
  • Community-oriented, dependable, proactive, empathetic, and committed to social impact.
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Position Overview: Supports implementation and coordination of women empowerment programmes focused on leadership, entrepreneurship, education, and life-skills development.

Key Responsibilities
  • Support planning and implementation of programme activities and cohorts.
  • Coordinate participants, facilitators, schools, and mentors.
  • Support curriculum delivery, trainings, and cohort engagement activities.
  • Track participant progress, attendance, and programme outcomes.
  • Prepare programme reports, documentation, and success stories.
  • Support data collection for impact measurement and donor reporting.
  • Support outreach, recruitment, and sensitisation for cohorts.
  • Coordinate logistics, materials, and scheduling.
  • Support compliance with safeguarding policies and programme standards.
Required Qualifications and Skills
  • Degree in Education, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Psychology, Gender Studies, or related field.
  • 4-6 years experience in youth development, education programmes, or gender programming.
  • Experience working with adolescent girls or youth programmes is an advantage.
  • Strong coordination, facilitation, and organisational skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
  • Ability to manage multiple activities and stakeholders.
  • Sensitivity to gender, youth safeguarding, and community engagement.
Core Competencies
  • Programme coordination
  • Youth engagement
  • Organisation
  • Communication
  • Safeguarding awareness
  • Accountability
  • Adaptability
Personal Attributes
  • Empathetic, youth-focused, proactive, structured, culturally sensitive, and committed to women's empowerment.
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Position Overview: Supports the design, implementation, and monitoring of climate-focused projects, including climate education, youth engagement, and community-based environmental initiatives.

Key Responsibilities
  • Support design and execution of climate action projects, bootcamps, school programmes, and community initiatives.
  • Coordinate project activities, timelines, and deliverables.
  • Engage schools, youth groups, and communities to promote climate awareness.
  • Collect project data, document outcomes, and prepare reports.
  • Support monitoring frameworks to assess impact and learning.
  • Maintain organised project documentation and records.
  • Liaise with partners, schools, environmental organisations, and stakeholders.
  • Support public engagements, campaigns, and advocacy activities.
  • Coordinate logistics for trainings, workshops, and field activities.
  • Support procurement, budgeting inputs, and compliance.
Required Qualifications and Skills
  • Degree in Environmental Science, Sustainability, Development Studies, Social Sciences, Public Policy, or related field.
  • 4-6 years experience in climate programming, environmental advocacy, or development work.
  • Experience working with youth, schools, or community-based projects is an advantage.
  • Strong project coordination and organisational skills.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
  • Ability to manage timelines, documentation, and multiple stakeholders.
  • Understanding of climate change, sustainability, or environmental education is desirable.
Core Competencies
  • Project management
  • Climate advocacy
  • Organisation
  • Communication
  • Stakeholder engagement
  • Accountability
  • Adaptability
Personal Attributes
  • Passionate about climate justice, detail-oriented, proactive, collaborative, and committed to sustainability.
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Position Overview: Strengthens institutional systems, workflows, and operational structures by documenting, reviewing, and improving organisational processes.

Key Responsibilities
  • Assist in mapping, documenting, and updating processes, policies, and SOPs.
  • Review workflows to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement.
  • Collect and analyse operational data to inform process optimisation.
  • Support implementation of approved process improvements.
  • Assist in coordinating internal audits and compliance checks.
  • Maintain a centralised repository of process documents and templates.
  • Support training and onboarding with process guides.
  • Facilitate internal communication on process updates.
  • Provide administrative and technical support to Operations and Strategy teams.
Required Qualifications and Skills
  • Degree or diploma in Business Administration, Management, Industrial Engineering, Project Management, or related field.
  • Experience in operations, process support, project coordination, or administrative roles.
  • Experience in non-profit or structured corporate environments is an advantage.
  • Strong documentation, analytical, and organisational skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite; familiarity with process-mapping tools is an advantage.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to manage multiple tasks and maintain attention to detail.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work collaboratively.
  • Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion.
  • Proactive, solution-oriented approach with adaptability.
Core Competencies
  • Professionalism
  • Analytical thinking
  • Organisation
  • Adaptability
  • Problem-solving
  • Teamwork
  • Confidentiality
Personal Attributes
  • Detail-oriented, calm, organised, self-motivated, accountable, and culturally sensitive.
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Position Overview: Supports resource mobilisation and strategic relationships, including grants, donor management, and partnerships.

Key Responsibilities
  • Identify and track grant and funding opportunities aligned to RIF priorities.
  • Assist in drafting proposals, concept notes, budgets, and donor reports.
  • Maintain grants and partnerships database and timelines.
  • Support relationship management with partners, donors, and funding institutions.
  • Prepare partnership briefs, MOUs, presentations, and pitch materials.
  • Coordinate internal inputs for submissions and reporting.
  • Support monitoring and compliance with donor requirements.
  • Organise donor meetings and stakeholder engagements.
  • Research funding trends and donor priorities.
Required Qualifications and Skills
  • Degree in International Development, Social Sciences, Business Administration, Communications, or related field.
  • Experience in grants support, partnerships, fundraising, or development work is an advantage.
  • Experience in non-profit or donor-funded organisations is desirable.
  • Strong research, writing, and documentation skills.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite.
  • Strong organisational and coordination abilities.
  • Attention to detail and ability to manage deadlines.
  • Ability to handle confidential information with discretion.
Core Competencies
  • Professionalism
  • Strategic thinking
  • Organisation
  • Relationship management
  • Adaptability
  • Teamwork
  • Confidentiality
Personal Attributes
  • Detail-oriented, proactive, articulate, dependable, value-driven, and committed to community development.
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Position Overview: Translates programme impact and community stories into compelling visual content. Responsible for editing videos that communicate RIF mission, initiatives, and outcomes.

Key Responsibilities
  • Edit short and long-form videos for programmes, campaigns, reports, and social media.
  • Develop narrative-driven video content highlighting beneficiary stories and outcomes.
  • Collaborate with Communications and Programmes teams on scripts and storyboards.
  • Add subtitles, captions, graphics, music, and transitions.
  • Ensure consistency with RIF brand identity and tone.
  • Organise and manage raw footage and project assets.
  • Create reels, short-form content, and multimedia assets.
  • Document events, trainings, and community engagements.
  • Adhere to ethical storytelling principles and informed consent.
Required Qualifications and Skills
  • Degree, diploma, or certification in Film Production, Media Studies, Communications, Visual Arts, or related field.
  • Experience in video editing, multimedia production, or digital storytelling.
  • Experience producing content for social media, campaigns, or documentaries is an advantage.
  • Experience with non-profits or social impact projects is desirable.
  • Proficiency in Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, DaVinci Resolve, or similar tools.
  • Strong storytelling and narrative editing skills.
  • Basic motion graphics and subtitle creation skills.
  • Knowledge of social media video formats and content optimisation.
  • Strong organisational skills and attention to detail.
  • Ability to meet deadlines and manage multiple projects.
  • Good communication and collaboration skills.
Core Competencies
  • Creative storytelling
  • Professionalism
  • Organisation
  • Adaptability
  • Problem-solving
  • Teamwork
  • Ethical communication
Personal Attributes
  • Creative, detail-oriented, calm under pressure, proactive, and aligned with RIF values.
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Position Overview: Creates visual designs that communicate RIF programmes, campaigns, and impact across digital and print materials.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design graphics for social media, reports, presentations, flyers, and campaigns.
  • Maintain visual consistency with RIF brand guidelines.
  • Collaborate with the Communications team on campaign visuals and storytelling.
  • Edit and adapt designs for various platforms and formats.
  • Support basic photo editing and layout tasks.
  • Manage design files and maintain an organised asset library.
  • Assist with event branding and production of visual materials.
Required Qualifications and Skills
  • Degree, diploma, or certification in Graphic Design, Visual Arts, or related field.
  • 2-3 years experience in graphic design or creative roles.
  • Experience designing for digital platforms is an advantage.
  • Proficiency in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Canva, or similar tools.
  • Basic understanding of branding and visual communication.
  • Creativity with attention to detail.
  • Ability to meet deadlines and accept feedback constructively.
Core Competencies
  • Creativity
  • Visual communication
  • Organisation
  • Adaptability
  • Teamwork
  • Professionalism
Personal Attributes
  • Creative, eager to learn, reliable, receptive to guidance, and aligned with RIF values.
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Position Overview: The M&E Officer ensures that RIF programmes are built and managed on evidence. The role designs measurement instruments, owns the quality of programme data, builds the systems programmes run on, and turns findings into practical learning across education, enterprise, climate, youth, and community development.

Reporting and Relationships
  • Reports to the Head of Programmes and works daily with programme leads and field teams.
  • Works with the COO's office on data protection, records, and the systems in which programme data is stored.
  • Reports what the data shows with candour, including unwelcome findings, to the Head of Programmes and, where required, the Co-Founder.
Key Responsibilities
  • Design surveys, assessment tools, registers, and baseline instruments for each programme; train field teams to use them and ensure every number gathered has a named source and date.
  • Build and maintain participant records, registers, and tracking systems that follow beneficiaries through and beyond their programmes.
  • Report each programme quarterly against RIF's six results levels: reach, engagement, change, outcome, access, and system.
  • Maintain indicator definitions so that programme results remain consistent from quarter to quarter.
  • Lead pre- and post-programme measurement, Social Return on Investment studies where required, and learning reviews whose findings improve programme delivery.
  • Own the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of programme data, including consent, confidentiality, and the safe handling of sensitive records and participant case data.
  • Support story and media capture to ensure consent, dignity, and data rules are observed from the outset.
Required Qualifications and Skills
  • Demonstrated monitoring and evaluation experience on real programmes, including instruments designed, data systems built, and evaluations delivered; evidence of work is valued over qualifications alone.
  • Strong practical data skills, with spreadsheet proficiency at minimum; experience with statistical or database tools is an advantage.
  • Field credibility and the ability to build trust and gather honest responses from diverse community stakeholders.
  • Clear, concise writing and confidence communicating evidence-based findings to leadership.
  • Unquestionable integrity in handling confidential lists and the records of vulnerable people.
Terms
  • Salary: ₦650,000 per month.
  • Start: Immediate.
  • Location: Warri, with regular fieldwork across programme communities.
How to Apply

Submit a CV, a short letter, and one work sample—an instrument, dataset, dashboard, or evaluation you personally produced—together with two paragraphs explaining what it was for and what it changed. Applications without a work sample will not be reviewed. Shortlisted candidates will complete a practical exercise drawn from the Foundation's live measurement work.

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Position Overview: Leads RIF's institutional funding and grants function end to end: identifying suitable funders, translating programmes into compelling and technically sound proposals, securing awards, and managing compliance, reporting, donor relationships, and grant close-out. The primary focus is development finance institutions and international funders.

Reporting and Relationships
  • Reports to the Founder.
  • Works closely with the Head of Programmes on programme content and evidence and with the Chief Operating Officer on grant finance, contracting, and compliance.
  • Has no direct reports at appointment but may supervise a Grants Officer and consultants as the portfolio grows.
Key Responsibilities
  • Develop and maintain a rolling three-year grants and institutional funding strategy aligned with the Kingdom Development Plan and RIF's Education, Empowerment, and Environment pillars.
  • Build and manage a live funding pipeline covering prospects, deadlines, eligibility, values, fit, decision dates, and ownership.
  • Research and cultivate development finance institutions, bilateral and multilateral donors, international foundations, pooled and challenge funds, and other mission-aligned partners.
  • Lead RIF's institutional readiness for donor due diligence, including governance, financial controls, procurement, integrity, safeguarding, data protection, and environmental and social risk requirements.
  • Interpret and apply relevant environmental and social safeguard frameworks, including IFC Performance Standards and World Bank Environmental and Social Standards.
  • Lead concept notes, expressions of interest, full proposals, bids, theories of change, results frameworks, risk registers, sustainability plans, and grant budgets through submission.
  • Serve as RIF's day-to-day contact for institutional funders and coordinate funder meetings, donor visits, field verification, and monitoring missions.
  • Manage awarded grants through start-up, obligations tracking, compliance monitoring, reporting, amendments, audits, and clean close-out.
  • Review grant expenditure and burn rates with the COO's office and ensure donor requirements and RIF controls are consistently followed.
  • Produce timely narrative and results reports grounded in verified monitoring data, working closely with the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer.
  • Build grants-management systems, policies, templates, calendars, proposal resources, diligence packs, and audit-ready filing structures.
  • Train programme leads on donor requirements, evidence standards, and reporting discipline, raising risks early and with clear recommendations.
Essential Qualifications and Experience
  • Bachelor's degree in Development Studies, Social Sciences, International Relations, Economics, Public Administration, Law, or a related field.
  • At least six years of relevant experience in institutional funding, grants management, or bid development within a development organisation, foundation, international NGO, development finance institution, or donor agency.
  • At least three years personally leading proposals and holding responsibility for donor reporting and compliance.
  • Direct, demonstrable experience securing, managing, or administering funding from development finance institutions, international funders, or major international foundations.
  • A verifiable record of proposals written and awards secured, including funders and award values.
  • Genuine field experience working with programmes and communities.
  • Working knowledge of institutional diligence and compliance, including procurement, eligible costs, audit requirements, safeguards, integrity screening, and donor reporting.
  • Understanding of environmental and social safeguard frameworks and their practical programme implications.
  • Strong grant budgeting skills and the ability to interpret budget-versus-actual results and explain variances.
  • Excellent written English and strong command of results frameworks, logframes, theories of change, Microsoft Word, Excel, donor portals, and shared filing systems.
  • Willingness and practical ability to travel frequently to Warri and to community and riverine sites, including locations reached by boat.
  • High personal integrity, accuracy, discretion, ownership, candour, and humility in the field.
Desirable Experience
  • Master's degree in a relevant discipline.
  • Experience with blended finance, technical assistance facilities, challenge funds, results-based finance, DFI due diligence, consortium arrangements, or sub-grants.
  • Existing relationships with DFI and donor country teams covering Nigeria.
  • Experience in the Niger Delta, across RIF's programme pillars, or building a grants function from the ground up.
  • Familiarity with safeguarding, Nigerian data protection requirements, consent standards, Itsekiri culture, and traditional institutions.
Terms
  • Contract: Full-time, subject to a probationary period.
  • Salary: ₦1,000,000 per month.
  • Start: Immediate.
  • Location: Warri, Delta State preferred. Candidates elsewhere in Nigeria may be considered but must spend at least one week per month in Warri, with additional travel during proposals, assessments, donor visits, and reporting periods.
  • Candidates relocating to Warri will receive a one-time accommodation allowance. Duty travel is covered under RIF's travel policy.
How to Apply

Applications must include:

  1. A curriculum vitae of no more than three pages.
  2. A covering letter of no more than one page explaining why this role and why RIF.
  3. A two-page concept note for a real or hypothetical RIF programme, addressed to a named development finance institution or international funder and a specific funding instrument or window. It must include an evidence-based problem statement, outline theory of change, three proposed indicators, indicative budget summary, relevant diligence or safeguard requirements, and the reason for selecting that institution and window.
  4. A one-page list of grants personally written or managed, showing the funder, value, period, specific role, and which were DFI or international funder awards.
  5. Three professional references, including the most recent line manager.

Applications without the work sample will not be considered. Shortlisted candidates may be asked to complete a timed written exercise.

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RIF is an Equal Opportunity Organisation committed to merit-based recruitment, inclusion, and professional excellence.