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At LEAP Africa, we are building more than an organization, we are shaping a world-class institution that serves as an ecosystem builder, a thought leader, and a development hub for young people across Africa. Our people are at the heart of this mission. We seek passionate, innovative, and values-driven individuals who are committed to creating lasting impact. Joining our team means becoming part of a bold journey towards empowering the next generation of African leaders and driving sustainable transformation across communities. If you are ready to make a difference, we invite you to explore opportunities with us and be part of the LEAP story.
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Senior Coordinator Finance & Admin

LEAP Africa seeks to recruit a Senior Finance and Admin Coordinator to support the financial and administrative activities in the organisation and the preparation of annual financial report and audit report working with external auditors.

  • Full-time
  • Finance
  • Lagos, Nigeria
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Ongoing

Grants, Business Development, and Partnership Specialist

We are seeking to hire an eLearning Officer to support the digital transformation of the organisation toward the achievement of its strategic goals of “Making secondary education work and Developing talents for the SDGs” in Africa.

  • Full-time
  • Growth
  • Lagos, Nigeria
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Ongoing

Finance and Procurement Manager

The Finance and Procurement Manager will play a pivotal role in ensuring the effective financial stewardship and procurement management of LEAP Africa’s resources. This role involves overseeing financial operations and procurement processes, ensuring compliance with organizational policies, donor requirements, and statutory regulations, while supporting the achievement of LEAP Africa’s strategic objectives. The Finance and Procurement Manager will support the Director of Finance and other senior leaders in driving transparency, accountability, and efficiency across financial and procurement systems that sustain LEAP Africa’s mission of inspiring, empowering, and equipping young Africans.

The ideal candidate is results-driven, detail-oriented, and committed to operational excellence. They will lead and collaborate with cross-functional teams to strengthen financial systems, manage budgets and forecasts, provide strategic financial insights, oversee cost-effective procurement processes, build stakeholder confidence, and ensure robust internal controls and accountability mechanisms are embedded in all financial and procurement operations to achieve organizational sustainability and impact.

  • Full-time
  • 5 years LEADERSHIP Experience
  • Lagos, Nigeria
  • Deadline: 21st SEPT
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Programmes Manager

As we pursue our strategic goals for 2025 and beyond, we are seeking a Programme Manager to join our dynamic team.

The Programme Manager will play a critical role in designing, managing, and delivering high-impact youth-focused programmes, while ensuring alignment with LEAP Africa’s vision and mission. This role is ideal for an innovative thinker and strong executor who is passionate about youth development and systems change in Africa.

If you are a results-driven professional with a passion for youth empowerment, this is your opportunity to lead, innovate, and inspire.

  • Full-time
  • 5 years LEADERSHIP Experience
  • Lagos, Nigeria
  • Deadline: 21st SEPT
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Finance Coordinator

We are seeking to hire a Finance Coordinator. The Finance Coordinator will play a pivotal role in supporting to ensure the financial integrity, accountability, and sustainability of the organization. This role involves supporting in the management of day-to-day finance operations, ensuring compliance with donor and regulatory requirements, and supporting the Senior Finance Coordinator and the Finance Manager to provide financial insights that drive strategic decision-making across programmes and operations.

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, highly organized, and passionate about using financial management to strengthen organizational impact and growth. They will work closely with cross-functional teams to support budgeting, reporting, audits, and efficient use of resources that align with LEAP Africa’s vision and mission.

  • Full-time
  • 5 years Experience
  • Lagos, Nigeria
  • Deadline: 21ST SEPT
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Finance Officer

We are seeking to hire a Finance Officer. The Finance Officer will play a pivotal role in supporting to ensure the financial integrity, accountability, and sustainability of the organization. This role involves supporting in the management of day-to-day finance operations, ensuring compliance with donor and regulatory requirements, and supporting the Senior Finance Coordinator and the Finance Manager to provide financial insights that drive strategic decision-making across programmes and operations.

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, highly organized, and passionate about using financial management to strengthen organizational impact and growth. They will work closely with cross-functional teams to support budgeting, reporting, audits, and efficient use of resources that align with LEAP Africa’s vision and mission.

  • Full-time
  • 2 - 3 years Experience
  • Lagos, Nigeria
  • Deadline: 21st sept
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Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning Officer

We are seeking to hire a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Manager to support the organization in conducting world class research, in-depth impact assessment & measurement, and supporting the achievements of the organization’s strategic goals of “Making secondary education work and Developing talents for the SDGs” in Africa.

  • Full-time
  • Research
  • Lagos, Nigeria
Apply Now

Ongoing

Join our network of talents

Are you interested in being a LEAPer? Would you like to join a team of super smart and creative young people who are raising Leaders and transforming Africa, this platform is designed just for you. Here you will get an opportunity to have access to first-hand updates on open vacancies and our latest initiatives.

Join our talent network

Our Narrative Unfolded: Discover Our Journey

Are you a passionate change agent interested in youth leadership development; would you like to contribute to expanding LEAP Africa’s work across Africa?

Do you want to work alongside a super motivated, energetic team who works hard and has a great time doing it? we would love to meet you.

Join a community of young change-makers to inspire, empower and equip a new cadre of African leaders.”

Why you should work with us

Our Core Values Define Us

Purpose Driven

At LEAP Africa, we connect you to purpose and passion. We are set to become a high-performing youth focused organization that serves as a center of excellence in key areas of youth leadership development.

Benefits and Incentives

We walk the talk on fair pay, opportunities and other benefits that make life better. Our offer is inclusive of life insurance, health coverage package, competitive compensation, retirement savings etc.

Hybrid Structure

We know that work and life are intertwined so we’re a flexible, high-trust workplace. It involves blending both physical and remote working options for employees.

A LEAPer with Honour

There’s a lot to be proud of when you have the LEAP Africa's badge, our work over the years has positioned us to be eco system builders, thought leaders and advocacy champions.

Learning & Development

At LEAP Africa we implement policies that will support the development of knowledge, competencies, and skills of the staff through our learning sessions, L and D fund, expert series etc.

Employee Well-being

We work smart, by balancing things out with vacations, holidays, and organisation breaks such as Wellness, personal day off. And we’ll give you a paid annual leave to encourage and promote time off.

Dynamic LEAPers

We have a team of super smart, innovative, creative and dynamic people who do their best to create an environment for teamwork and synergy. You will be part of a team that loves to collaborate, give support, share insights, achieve collective and individual goals.

Thriving Careers, Flourishing Lives: Experience Life with Us

We are a people-first organization, as such place a high value on employee well-being and fulfillment at work, because we understand that the foundation of any successful organization is its people. 

We create room for new ideas and initiative, always willing to listen, whether you’ve been with us for a day, a week, a month, or a year. At LEAP Africa we create opportunities for team members to contribute their talent and potential in achieving impactful work.

We ensure that you get responsibility, be challenged, and set the course of your own future. It’s a journey we take together.

Crafting Excellence: Our Selective Process Shapes the Best

You’ve heard recruiters spend 6 seconds on a resume? Well, we don’t. We give every application the same time and consideration.

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LEAP with us into the Future
The future of LEAP Africa is bright, wonderful and exciting. We are currently working with our 5 year strategy ETA framework that will take us into the next 20 years. And we will continue to seek opportunities for LEAP Africa to grow out with more PAN African orientated programmes as we have started doing. We are poise to raise millions of African youths.
Kehinde AyeniExceutive Director
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Unlock Your Potential:
Explore Our Job Openings

Senior Coordinator Finance & Admin

LEAP Africa seeks to recruit a Senior Finance and Admin Coordinator to support the financial and administrative activities in the organisation and the preparation of annual financial report and audit report working with external auditors.

  • Full-time
  • Finance
  • Lagos, Nigeria
Apply Now

Ongoing

Grants, Business Development, and Partnership Specialist

We are seeking to hire an eLearning Officer to support the digital transformation of the organisation toward the achievement of its strategic goals of “Making secondary education work and Developing talents for the SDGs” in Africa.

  • Full-time
  • Growth
  • Lagos, Nigeria
Apply Now

Ongoing

Programmes Manager

We are seeking to hire a Programme Manager to join our dynamic team. The Programme Manager will play a critical role in designing, managing, and delivering high-impact youth-focused programmes, while ensuring alignment with LEAP Africa’s vision and mission. This role is ideal for an innovative thinker and strong executor who is passionate about youth development and systems change in Africa.

  • Full-time
  • 5 years LEADERSHIP Experience
  • Lagos, Nigeria
  • Deadline: 21st SEPT
Apply

Finance Coordinator

We are seeking to hire a Finance Coordinator. The Finance Coordinator will play a pivotal role in supporting to ensure the financial integrity, accountability, and sustainability of the organization. This role involves supporting in the management of day-to-day finance operations, ensuring compliance with donor and regulatory requirements, and supporting the Senior Finance Coordinator and the Finance Manager to provide financial insights that drive strategic decision-making across programmes and operations.

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, highly organized, and passionate about using financial management to strengthen organizational impact and growth. They will work closely with cross-functional teams to support budgeting, reporting, audits, and efficient use of resources that align with LEAP Africa’s vision and mission.

  • Full-time
  • 5 years Experience
  • Lagos, Nigeria
  • Deadline: 21ST SEPT
APPLY

Finance Officer

We are seeking to hire a Finance Officer. The Finance Officer will play a pivotal role in supporting to ensure the financial integrity, accountability, and sustainability of the organization. This role involves supporting in the management of day-to-day finance operations, ensuring compliance with donor and regulatory requirements, and supporting the Senior Finance Coordinator and the Finance Manager to provide financial insights that drive strategic decision-making across programmes and operations.

The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, highly organized, and passionate about using financial management to strengthen organizational impact and growth. They will work closely with cross-functional teams to support budgeting, reporting, audits, and efficient use of resources that align with LEAP Africa’s vision and mission.

  • Full-time
  • 2 - 3 years Experience
  • Lagos, Nigeria
  • Deadline: 21st sept
APPLY

Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning Officer

We are seeking to hire a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Learning (MERL) Manager to support the organization in conducting world class research, in-depth impact assessment & measurement, and supporting the achievements of the organization’s strategic goals of “Making secondary education work and Developing talents for the SDGs” in Africa.

  • Full-time
  • Research
  • Lagos, Nigeria
Apply Now

Ongoing

Join our network of talents

Are you interested in being a LEAPer? Would you like to join a team of super smart and creative young people who are raising Leaders and transforming Africa, this platform is designed just for you. Here you will get an opportunity to have access to first-hand updates on open vacancies and our latest initiatives.

Join our talent network

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