Senior Talent Acquisition / Requisition Specialist

West African Exploration and Production company (WAEP)

WAEP is a registered company with the Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria, with RC No: 1173358. We have a strategic partnership/alliance with Dangote Exploration Assets Limited (80%), Dansa Energy Resources Limited (5%) and First Exploration and Petroleum Development Company Limited (15%).

In 2015, WAEP acquired a 45% working interest in OML 71 and OML 72 from the SPDC JV (Shell Petroleum and Development Company of Nigeria Limited, Total E&P Nigeria Limited and Nigerian Agip Oil Company Limited). The company is the operator of OML 71 and OML 72 on behalf of the WAEP-NNPC JV. These blocks are located south of the Bonny Island. There are 7 major discovered fields in OML 72 namely – Kalaekule, KD, Koronama, Kugbe, KL, KQ, Kappa, while OML 71 has 2 main fields called KI and KI south.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Senior Talent Acquisition / Requisition Specialist

Location: Lagos

Department: Human Resources (HAM)

Report to: Head, Human Asset Management

Role Purpose

• Lead and support end-to-end talent acquisition and manpower requisition activities, ensuring WAEP attracts, assesses and engages suitably qualified talent for technical, operational and corporate roles in line with approved workforce plans, recruitment standards and business requirements.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

• Time-to-fill approved vacancies
• Quality and suitability of shortlisted candidates
• Recruitment process and documentation compliance
• Hiring-manager satisfaction
• Offer acceptance and candidate conversion rate
• Accuracy and timeliness of recruitment reporting
• Effectiveness of sourcing channels and talent pipelines
• Audit readiness of recruitment files

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinate approved manpower requisitions from initiation through sourcing assessment, selection, offer and onboarding
• Partner with hiring managers to clarify role requirements, job descriptions, competencies, experience criteria and recruitment timelines.
• Develop sourcing strategies for specialist, technical leadership and hard-to-fill upstream oil and gas positions.
• Manage vacancy advertisements, candidate databases, recruitment channels and professional sourcing platforms.
• Screen applications and CVs against approved qualifications, experience and competency requirements and prepare defensible shortlists.
• Coordinate competency-based interviews, technical assessments, panel documentation candidate communications and recruitment logistics.
• Conduct candidate due diligence, reference checks and verification of employment, qualifications and other required documentation
• Support compensation benchmarking candidate information gathering offer simulations and offer- management processes in line with approved remuneration frameworks.
• Maintain accurate recruitment trackers, requisition status reports, interview records, approvals and complete audit- ready recruitment files.
• Monitor recruitment metrics, identify bottlenecks and provide management reports on vacancies, time-to-fill, sourcing effectiveness and pending decisions.
• Support talent-pipeline development, succession-related sourcing and proactive identification of scarce upstream oll and gas skills.
• Ensure recruitment activities comply with Company policies. approved manpower plans, equal-opportunity principles and applicable employment requirements

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, industrial Relations, Social Sciences or a related discipline.
• Minimum 10-15 years progressive recruitment/talent acquisition experience, with strong exposure to the oil and gas industry, preferably upstream E&P.
• Demonstrable experience recruiting technical specialist managerial and senior leadership positions is required Relevant professional membership/certification such as CPM, SHRM, CPD or equivalent is strongly preferred.

Core Competencies:

• Strategic talent acquisition
• Manpower requisition management
• Competency-based screening and interviewing
• Oil and gas technical recruitment
• Executive and specialist search
• Candidate assessment and due diligence Recruitment analytics and reporting
• Offer management and stakeholder engagement
• ATS/recruitment database management
• Confidentiality, judgment and documentation discipline

Application Closing Date

20th October, 2026