Finance, Administration and People & Culture Assistant

VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone, so that each person has the health care needed to thrive. We develop solutions that improve equity and access to primary health care. This includes making sure products are available when and where they are needed and primary health care services are delivered to the most under-reached.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Finance, Administration and People & Culture Assistant

Location: Abuja

Employment Type: Full Time

Summary

• The Finance, Administration & People & Culture (P&C) Assistant provides day-to-day operational support to the Nigeria Country Lead and team across finance, office administration, and people-related activities.
• By ensuring timely financial administration, efficient office operations, and accurate personnel documentation, the role strengthens the Nigeria office’s effectiveness.
• It supports VillageReach’s broader goal of building responsive, well-run country programs that deliver primary health care to under-reached communities.

Responsibilities

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be assigned at any time:

• Support financial administration for the Nigeria office, including preparing, organizing, and submitting invoices, payment requests, expense reports, advances, and supporting documentation.
• Review financial documentation for completeness, support monthly financial close, and assist with basic budget tracking and expenditure monitoring.
• Prepare financial documentation for audits, donor reviews, and internal compliance reviews, and liaise with vendors on invoices and routine payment matters.
• Provide administrative support for recruitment, onboarding, employee documentation, and offboarding, working closely with the People & Culture team.
• Maintain accurate and confidential personnel records, and track probationary periods, contract dates, leave records, and mandatory training deadlines.
• Coordinate day-to-day office operations, including logistics for meetings, workshops, trainings, and team events, and support staff travel arrangements.
• Maintain office records, filing systems, and administrative trackers, and coordinate procurement of routine office supplies and services.
• Maintain records of office equipment and organizational assets, and coordinate with landlords, IT providers, security providers, and other vendors.
• Support the Country Lead by maintaining key operational calendars and trackers, coordinating team meetings, and following up on agreed action points.
• Provide additional operational, financial, and people-support assistance to the Nigeria team during periods of increased program activity.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• This position has no supervisory responsibilities.

Requirements

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below represent the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent qualification in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Human Resources, Management, or a related field.
• 2–4 years of relevant professional experience in finance, administration, HR/People & Culture, operations, or a comparable support role.
• Experience supporting financial transactions, documentation, expense management, or basic financial reconciliation.
• Experience with administrative coordination and office operations.

Other Qualifications:

• Established cultural competency in partnering with racial, cultural and linguistically diverse groups.
• Demonstrated understanding of challenges with working in rural, underserved and low-income contexts; experience living in and/or working in a low-income country a plus.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel) and comfortable in a fast-paced technical environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English; proficiency in a local Nigerian language (e.g. Hausa, Yoruba, or Igbo) is an advantage.
• Legal authorization to work in Nigeria.
• Previous experience with an international NGO, nonprofit, development organization, or other multi-country organization.
• Experience supporting recruitment, onboarding, employee records, or other HR/People & Culture processes.
• Familiarity with Nigerian employment and statutory administrative requirements.
• Experience working with financial, HRIS, payroll, procurement, or ERP systems.
• Experience supporting donor-funded projects or programs.

Competencies:

• VillageReach has ten (10) Organizational Competencies that describe how we work together and get things done that are grouped into three strategic areas of Achieving Great Results, Setting Direction and, Bringing Others With you. For a full description, please download our Organizational Competency document.

Achieving Great Results:

• Risk Taking and Innovation: Key Behaviors - Comfort with ambiguity, curiosity, adaptability, unconstrained and undeterred creativity, resourcefulness.
• Business Judgement: Key Behaviors - Getting to root causes, understanding environment, navigating complexity and ambiguity, entrepreneurial energy.
• Building Strong Teams: Key Behaviors - Trust in Subject Matter Experts (SME’s); radical candor to resolve conflict, hold each other accountable as colleagues, focused on results, commitment to mission.

Setting Direction:

• Compelling Communication: Key Behaviors - Clear and evidence-based communication, audience adaptability, curious listener.
• Resilient Self Leadership: Key Behaviors - Self-aware, plan how one shows up, emotionally intelligent, use one’s own agency and takes accountability.
• Stewardship and Personal Alignment: Key Behaviors - Take ownership, display ethical conduct, effective at resource management, alignment of personal objectives with organizational goals and mission, focus on continuous improvement and sustainability.

Bringing Others with You:

• Influencing Leadership: Key Behaviors - Cultivate trust, influence to make change, navigate the matrix structure.
• Radical Partnership: Key Behaviors - Share information and credit, address conflict, increase impact through collaboration, political and contextual awareness.
• Cultivates a Growth Mindset: Key Behaviors - Seek out diverse input, demonstrate flexibility in thinking and curiosity, embrace challenges, demonstrate persistence, seek learning opportunities.
• Cultural Intelligence and Inclusion: Key Behaviors - Continuous learning and ally-ship across cultural lines, challenge prejudice and bias, modeled in one’s own behavior.

Environment and Physical Demands:

• VillageReach employees typically work in a shared, open environment with task and conference rooms accessible to employees for privacy and meetings. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet. Due to the time zone differences across our USA, Kenya and Country Offices and location of other global staff, we have established core collaboration hours between 6am Pacific Time and 18:00 South Africa Time (GMT+1) Monday through Thursday. All staff, regardless of location are expected to be available between these hours. During Daylight Savings Time, this allows for 12 hours per week (3 hours/day) of collaboration time and during Standard Time, 8 hours (2 hours/day). We do not hold cross-office meetings on Friday.

• This is primarily an office-based role in Abuja, requiring the ability to sit at a desk and use a computer for extended periods. The role may occasionally require light lifting of office materials and supplies, and occasional local travel to meetings, workshops, or field-related activities as needed.

• Compensation & Benefits

• VillageReach has an established compensation structure that is based on the relevant market and internally transparent.

• The range for this position is entry point $55,300 to midpoint $73,700 annually. We hire people into the established range based on one’s experience and education and considering internal equity.

• We do not inquire about salary history. Please refer to our compensation overview on our website for more information and for more information on employee benefits.

Application Closing Date

23rd October, 2026.