Emeraid Group is a development and enterprise conglomerate consolidating specialised subsidiaries across advisory, enterprise support, financial structuring, and asset-backed financing. Support in development and enterprise is too often delivered in fragments: training without financing, funding without a plan, programmes that don’t outlast their pilot phase. Emeraid Group exists to close that gap.

We bring advisory, capacity building, financial structuring, asset deployment, and technology together as one coordinated system and working end-to-end, from diagnostic to delivery, so that every intervention leads to measurable, lasting outcomes.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Group Chief Operating Officer (COO)

Location: Abuja, Nigeria

About EIG

• EIG is developing a lean shared-services platform supporting its businesses and projects in development advisory, enterprise development, renewable energy and related commercial activities.
• The appointment must strengthen delivery and institutional resilience without duplicating existing specialist roles.

The Opportunity

• The COO will take ownership of day-to-day operating performance: turning commitments into practical plans, ensuring managers deliver, resolving bottlenecks, protecting project margins and strengthening the systems needed for sustainable growth.

Core Responsibilities

• Execute Group strategy: Translate approved priorities into practical operating plans, budgets, milestones and clearly assigned responsibilities across active businesses and projects.
• Own project delivery: Oversee mobilisation through close-out, ensuring contracts, funding arrangements, technical plans and acceptance criteria are confirmed before implementation. Resolve bottlenecks and drive recovery of delayed assignments.
• Drive operational performance: Maintain a reliable portfolio dashboard, lead weekly performance reviews and hold managers accountable for deadlines, results and corrective actions.
• Protect margins and cash: Work alongside the CFO to monitor budgets, cost-to-complete, invoicing readiness and collections. Keep operational commitments within approved funding and authority limits.
• Lead people and shared services: Clarify responsibilities, coach managers, address underperformance and strengthen coordination. Improve existing capacity, procedures and backup coverage before proposing additional permanent staff.
• Manage client and partner commitments: Ensure timely communication, accurate reporting, prompt issue resolution and complete documentation for approvals, acceptance and payment.
• Strengthen risk, safety and quality: Maintain operational risk controls, enforce required technical approvals and safety standards, and ensure incidents, quality failures and audit findings receive corrective action.
• Reduce dependence on the CEO: Personally own routine operational decisions and follow-through. Escalate material exceptions with clear options, a recommendation and a decision deadline, not unresolved problems alone.

Requirements
Essential capability and relevant experience

• At least 10 years of progressive experience, including five years of substantial operational leadership across multiple projects, departments or business units.
• A relevant Degree or an equivalent professional qualification pathway supported by demonstrable operating leadership. A relevant master’s degree or project-management certification is advantageous, not a substitute for results.
• Evidence of delivery recovery, resource allocation, budget or margin accountability, manager development and personally introduced operating systems.
• Strong spreadsheet and management-reporting capability; able to interpret financial forecasts and challenge assumptions while respecting the CFO’s finance ownership.
• Experience in at least two relevant settings is desirable: development consulting/programmes, renewable energy, enterprise or agribusiness services, technology projects or a multi-business group.
• Sound judgement, integrity and a constructive record of working with founders, clients and specialist leaders. A prior COO title is not required where the responsibility is evidenced.

What success will look like

• By day 90, a reliable portfolio dashboard, approved delivery plans, a working escalation matrix and repeatable operating reviews should be in place. By month six, target a 40% reduction in CEO time on routine operational coordination, measured against an agreed baseline without suppressing risk escalation.

Application Closing Date
21st November, 2026.