# Finance, Administration and People & Culture Assistant > VillageReach · Abuja, Nigeria (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-06 **Workplace:** hybrid **Department:** Programs ## Description ### ABOUT VILLAGEREACH VillageReach transforms health care delivery to reach everyone. We are driven by a vision of a world where each person has the health care needed to thrive. VillageReach’s goal is to reduce inequities in access to quality primary health care for 350 million people by 2030. We work with governments, the private sector, partners and communities to build responsive primary health care systems that deliver health products, information and services to the most under-reached. As a locally driven and globally connected organization, VillageReach has offices in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique and the United States.  ### 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. ### Description 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. ### 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**__:_ 1.      Risk Taking and Innovation ·        _Key Behaviors_: Comfort with ambiguity, curiosity, adaptability, unconstrained and undeterred creativity, resourcefulness. 2.      Business Judgement ·        _Key Behaviors:_ Getting to root causes, understanding environment, navigating complexity and ambiguity, entrepreneurial energy. 3.      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:**_ 4.      Compelling Communication ·        _Key Behaviors:_ Clear and evidence-based communication, audience adaptability, curious listener.  5.      Resilient Self Leadership ·        _Key Behaviors:_ Self-aware, plan how one shows up, emotionally intelligent, use one’s own agency and takes accountability. 6.      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:**_ 7.      Influencing Leadership ·        _Key Behaviors:_ Cultivate trust, influences to make change, navigate the matrix structure. 8.      Radical Partnership ·        _Key Behaviors:_ Share information and credit, address conflict, increase impact through collaboration, political and contextual awareness. 9.      Cultivates a Growth Mindset ·        _Key Behaviors:_ Seek out diverse input, demonstrate flexibility in thinking and curiosity, embrace challenges, demonstrate persistence, seek learning opportunities. 10.   Cultural Intelligence and Inclusion ·        _Key Behaviors:_ Continuous learning and ally-ship across cultural lines, challenge prejudice and bias, modeled in one’s own behavior. ## 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. ### Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no supervisory responsibilities. ### Education & Experience: ·        Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Human Resources, Management, or a related field. ·        At least 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 context; 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. ### 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. COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION: VillageReach is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer committed to workforce diversity. We believe that diverse, equitably weighted perspectives foster an organizational capacity to create novel solutions that improve health in the most under-reached and hard-to-reach areas. To align our values, innovations and impact, VillageReach is committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse global workforce. APPLICATION INFORMATION: This is an immediate hire and therefore resumes will be reviewed on a rolling basis until **23rd October 2026. Please note that this job will be hired upon securing of adequate funding.** To apply, please submit your resume and a cover letter to our online portal: [http://www.villagereach.org/join-us/](http://www.villagereach.org/join-us/).  In your cover letter, please address (1)Why you are interested in this position, (2)What is one reason you think you’d be a good fit for this position and, (3)What is one strength you would bring to this position? ### Hiring Process: The hiring process will include the following steps: 1.      Review submitted applications 2.      Conduct 20-30 minute screening interviews for shortlisted candidates 3.      Conduct skills and value-based interviews for 3-5 candidates. 4.      Request that top candidates submit a practical assessment (designed to take no more than two hours to complete). Sometimes the assignment will occur before the interview. 5.      Conduct final interview if necessary 6.      Request references  7.      Make offer  8.      Conduct background check Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted, but candidates who proceed to step 2 will be notified if they are not chosen for step 3. ### Safeguarding: VillageReach is committed to promoting the welfare of children, young people, adults, and beneficiaries with whom it engages. We expect everyone working with us to share this commitment through our code of conduct.All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references and appropriate screening checks, which may include criminal records. VillageReach participates in the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and, in line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By applying, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures. ## Benefits Compensation & Benefits: VillageReach has an established compensation structure based on the relevant market and is internally transparent. The range for this position is $24,600.00 to $31,600.00 annually. We hire people into the established range based on experience and education, while considering internal equity. We do not inquire about salary history. Please refer to our compensation overview on our website for more information on employee benefits. ## Apply [Apply at VillageReach](https://apply.workable.com/villagereachcareers/j/E3E6F963B6/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)