People Operations Manager at Lafiya Nigeria
Lafiya Nigeria is a global health non-profit organisation that offers an innovative solution to strengthen the social infrastructure of Nigeria by empowering women through access to contraception.
Position Overview
Lafiya is growing fast, and we need someone to own both recruitment and human resources.
- On the recruiting side, you'll lead all active hiring processes, manage candidate pipelines, and work closely with hiring managers across the organisation.
- On the HR side, you'll own the foundations: onboarding and offboarding, leave and absence, HRIS, performance review cycles, compensation benchmarking, and benefits.
- You’ll sit within the Operations team, which currently consists of two Operations Managers and a Finance & Compliance Officer, led by the COO.
- You'll be the first person inside Operations fully focused on human resources, which means you'll be building and running the processes at the same time.
- You’ll play a critical role in scaling the organisation and strengthening employee retention, helping ensure a sustainable future for Lafiya.
As we expand into another country in 2026, this is also an exciting opportunity to work with international recruitment, HR operations, and organisational growth across multiple geographies.
What You’ll Do
Recruitment (70%)
Fully execute Lafiya’s evidence-based personnel recruitment and selection rounds for international and Nigeria-based staff.
- Review and improve our hiring SOP, covering how we source and screen candidates, how we share roles externally, how we do active outreach, and how we design and evaluate test tasks and interviews.
- Build a hiring plan that maps our anticipated headcount needs, flags gaps before they become urgent, and builds in enough overlap and spare capacity so we're not critically understaffed when someone leaves the organisation.
- Maintain candidate pipelines and ensure hiring managers have clear, up-to-date visibility on where each process stands.
- Communicate proactively with both candidates and hiring managers throughout every stage of the process.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree required.
- Professional fluency in English (written and spoken).
- 5 to 9 years of experience in people operations, HR, recruitment, or related fields.
- Have managed full-cycle recruiting and multiple open roles simultaneously.
- Have HR experience: onboarding, policies, HRIS, performance cycles, or compensation. You don't need to have done all of them, but enough to hit the ground running.
- Experience in an NGO, INGO, international development org, or mission-driven startup.
- Preferred: experience recruiting in or for Sub-Saharan Africa, and comfortable navigating international hiring
Skills & Personal Qualities
Self-directed and proactive: you figure things out independently, pick up new tools and processes quickly, and don't wait to be told what to do.
- You take feedback well and adjust fast.
- Evidence-driven: you research what studies show and what peer organisations are doing, and use those inputs to adapt and improve our processes.
- You don't rely on gut feel alone.
- A builder, not just an executor: you've designed or improved processes before, not just followed them.
- At Lafiya, you'll need to create policies and adapt them as the organisation evolves.
- Someone who treats candidates well: you understand that how you show up reflects on Lafiya.
- You communicate, close the loop, and leave people with a good impression even when the answer is no.
A reliable partner to the team: hiring managers and staff trust that you're on top of things and that their needs are being taken care of. You don't need to be chased for updates.
Comfortable working remotely and async across time zones:
- you keep things moving without close guidance and communicate proactively without being asked.
- You are a tactful person who can adeptly communicate about delicate issues to a variety of stakeholders in cross-cultural contexts.
- You’re comfortable in a start-up environment, meaning that you’re comfortable wearing multiple hats, you’re comfortable in an environment where priorities can change rapidly, and you’re comfortable with ambiguity and situations without pre-established processes.
- You are generally tech-savvy and, for example, you default to a spreadsheet or find appropriate tools when trying to solve a problem.
- You have proficiency with or are willing to learn to use digital work tools, including Google Workspace, Slack, Airtable, and LLMs.
Deadline: 6 July 2026
How to Apply
Interested Applicant can apply via this link
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