We are currently recruiting for a Country Director Nigeria. Contract: National contract – initial two-year assignment with the possibility of extension Location: Abuja, with frequent travel to Lagos Position overview 
As Country Director, your core assignment is to build and scale SNV Nigeria's presence into a flagship country programme. You lead the growth of our portfolio by positioning SNV strongly in the market, enabling high-quality program delivery and securing funding needed to expand our impact across agri-food, energy and water.  In this highly external role, you spend most of your time opening doors, building relationships and translate these into concrete opportunities and partnerships. As the face of SNV in Nigeria you represent the organisation at senior levels and you ensure that programs remain relevant and aligned with national priorities and global development agendas.  You actively grow SNV's pipeline by engaging embassies, donors, public and private sector partners and financial institutions, translating partnerships into concrete opportunities, blended finance structures and donor-funded programs. You stay close to market dynamics and turn insights into strategic positioning and concrete opportunities. At the same time, you lead and guide a local team of around ten staff, providing clarity, focus, and alignment with SNV’s CARE principles and ways of working. Success in this role is reflected in a strong and growing pipeline, increased visibility in the market and impactful partnerships across sectors. You combine leaderships with hands-on business development, enabling both team performance and deal-making, while frequently traveling between Abuja and Lagos to strengthen private sector engagement.  In this role, you will focus on: Business development and positioning: This role is primarily focused on business development, with most of the Country Director’s time dedicated to identifying and advancing opportunities, leading proposal development and originations of flagship partnerships, and building partnerships to strengthen SNV’s pipeline and positioning. Enabling team performance: Build, guide, and lead a high-performing country team, growing it in line with program expansion while providing clarity, focus, and alignment with SNV’s CARE principles and ways of working. Stakeholder engagement and representation: building and maintaining strong relationships with investors/donors, partners, government actors, and private sector stakeholders, and representing SNV in key platforms and networks.  Programme oversight and quality: ensuring projects are delivered effectively and in line with donor requirements, with a focus on quality, impact, and continuous improvement rather than heavy operational oversight Collaboration and scaling: working closely with regional and global colleagues to leverage opportunities, contribute to multi-country initiatives, and strengthen SNV’s overall positioning Learning and innovation: contributing to knowledge development, evidence building, and the continuous improvement of SNV’s approaches, in collaboration with internal teams and external partners 
