🇳🇬 Job Vacancies @ U.S. Mission to Nigeria – 4 Positions

Job Title: Protocol Assistant

Announcement Number: Lagos-2025-004
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Summary

• The U.S. Consulate General in Lagos, Nigeria is seeking eligible and qualified applicants for the Protocol Assistant position in the Executive Office.
•  The U.S. Mission in Nigeria supports Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA). All genders are encouraged to apply.

Duties

• The incumbent is the chief protocol staff and aids the Principal Officer as a staff assistant.
• The job holder maintains relationships with Nigerian government officials, traditional rulers, diplomatic missions, and key members of the private sector.  She also arranges official meetings, events, and other activities for the Principal Officer, visiting U.S. officials (including the Ambassador and DCM), the Political and Economic Section and other senior staff.
• This includes liaising with the Abuja FO, the General Services Office, Public Affairs Section, Regional Security Office, FCS, FAS, and the official residence employees to coordinate all logistical support required.  The incumbent also prepares briefing materials and other documents as required.

Qualifications
For the Experience and Education Requirements, Applicants must meet either option 1 or option 2 to qualify:
Option 1:

• Experience: Minimum two (2) years of experience dealing with the public in a service-oriented environment is required.
• Education: A university degree in English, French, International Relations, Business, Communications, or Public Policy is required.
• Note: NYSC Certificate/Exemption/Exclusion document is required.

Option 2:

• Experience: Minimum four (4) years of experience dealing with the public in a service-oriented environment is required
• Education: Two (2) years of university studies in any field is required.

Salary
USD 24,860 Per Year.

Application Closing Date
16th January, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Job Title: Supervisory Visa Assistant

Announcement Number: Lagos-2025-002
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Summary

• The U.S. Consulate General in Lagos, Nigeria is seeking eligible and qualified applicants for the Supervisory Visa Assistant (Nonimmigrant Visa LE Staff Supervisor) position in the Consular Office.
• The U.S. Mission in Nigeria supports Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA). All genders are encouraged to apply.

Duties

• The Incumbent serves as the Locally Employed (LE) Staff supervisor of the twelve-person LE Staff in the Nonimmigrant Visa (NIV) Unit. The NIV Unit is the largest in Africa and is one of the highest-fraud NIV Units in the world. Coordinates the processing of all nonimmigrant visa work for the Lagos consular district, encompassing the full range of nonimmigrant visa classifications, including tourist and student visas, as well as petition-based work and performance visas.
• As supervisor, the incumbent supervises two-three FSN-08 Team Leads and indirectly supervises the four-six FSN-07 Visa Assistants on each team and serves as rater and reviewer for annual evaluations. The incumbent is responsible for actively contributing to an inclusive and diverse environment and ensure that all employees are treated equally. The incumbent oversees all onboarding and ongoing training for the NIV Unit. The incumbent also overseas all NIV processing for over 300,000 cases per year.
• Incumbent supervises all NIV scheduling, pre-screening, intake, data entry, visa printing and passback, screening documents and cases for fraud indicators, and providing guidance to consular officers. The incumbent acts as a liaison among NIV LE Staff, adjudicating officers, the Fraud Prevention Unit, and the NIV Chief in monitoring and modifying procedures to enhance the unit's operating efficiency and serves as the principal advisor to adjudicating officers. This position is a "hands-on" customer service position that requires decisive action and exceptional interpersonal skills.

Requirements
For the Experience and Education Requirements, Applicants must meet either option 1 or option 2 to qualify:
Option 1:

• Education: A University Degree in any of the following: Business Administration, Communications, Public Administration, Sociology, or Law is required.  Note: NYSC Certificate/Exemption/Exclusion document is required
• Experience: Minimum three (3) years of progressively responsible administrative/government work experience and prior customer service-oriented work is required. Must have acquired experience handling more complicated tasks and resolving unusual/difficult situations AND one (1) year of previous experience as a supervisor is required.

Option 2:

• Education: Two (2) years of university studies in any field.
• Experience: Minimum five (5) years of progressively responsible administrative/government work experience and prior customer service-oriented work is required. Must have acquired experience handling more complicated tasks and resolving unusual/difficult situations AND one (1) year of previous experience as a supervisor is required.

Salary
USD 31,148 Per Year.

Application Closing Date
21st January, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Procurement Agent

Announcement Number: Abuja-2025-001
Location: Abuja
Employment Type: Full Time

Duties

• The incumbent procures a variety of goods and services for all agencies at post.
• They will also perform contract administration on all formal contracts, purchase orders, and other contracting instruments.
• The incumbent is responsible for maintaining a filing system for all contracting activities and reports directly to the procurement supervisor.

Qualifications and Evaluations
Education Requirements:

• At least two (2) years of college studies is required.

Experience:

• Minimum of three (3) years of progressively responsible procurement related experience is required.

Requirements:

• All selected candidates must be able to obtain and hold a Public Trust security clearance.
• All selected candidates will be subject to a background investigation and may be subject to a pre-employment medical exam.
• Selected candidate must be able to begin working within a reasonable period of time (6 weeks) upon receipt of agency authorization and/or clearances/certifications or their candidacy may end.

Salary
USD 19,560 Per Year.

Application Closing Date
21st January, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Job Title: Generator Technician

Announcement Number: Lagos-2025-003
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full Time

Duties

• The Generator Technician is assigned to the Facilities Maintenance Section and is directly supervised by the Building Mechanical Engineer for all assigned duties.
• Carry out preventive maintenance, repair, installation, modification, troubleshooting, overhaul, testing adjustment and calibration of various diesel generators, automatic transfer switches, fuel tanks, batteries and chargers, transformers and associated mechanical and electrical systems.
• Incumbent receives written or verbal request for maintenance services and ascertains all the information to determine whether the work is of a routine or emergency nature.

Education Requirements

• Successful completion of Secondary School or Technical Training College and three (3) years of journey man knowledge in maintenance and repair of standby generator and /or uninterrupted power supply systems is required.

Experience:

• Experience: Minimum of Five (5) years experience in generator trouble shooting, repairing and installation is required.

Evaluations:

• You will be evaluated against the qualifications and requirements in this vacancy announcement.
• You may be asked to complete a pre-employment language or skills test.
• You must complete the application form and provide the required documents.  Your application must address all the position qualifications and requirements including education, experience, language, and any knowledge/skills/abilities listed.  If you fail to submit a complete application, then your application may be disqualified for this position.

Requirements:

• All selected candidates must be able to obtain and hold a Public Trust Security Clearance.
• All selected candidates will be subject to a background investigation and may be subject to a pre-employment medical exam. Selected candidate must be able to begin working within a reasonable period of time (6 weeks) upon receipt of agency authorization and/or clearances/certifications or their candidacy may end.

Salary
USD 17,082 Per Year.

Application Closing Date
21st January, 2024.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online