The U.S. Mission to Nigeria comprises of the Embassy in Abuja, FCT, and the Consulate General in Lagos. U.S. Consulate General Lagos is the Mission’s representative to the Nigerian people in the southern region.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Finance and Administrative Assistant
Announcement Number: Abuja-2026-022
Location: Abuja
Work Schedule: Full-time – 40 hours per week
Summary
- The U.S. Embassy Abuja, Nigeria is seeking eligible and qualified applicants for the Finance and Administrative Assistant (Public Health Administrative Management Assistant) position in the Health Assistance Office.
Duties
- The Finance/Administrative Assistant will report to the Deputy Coordinator and be responsible for managing health assistance information flow in the office, interagency communications, logistics for meetings and conferences, the Health Assistance Office calendar, organizing and tracking numerous interagency assignments and projects.
- The incumbent also serves as the lead budget and financial advisor to the Senior Foreign Assistance Coordinator. This is a senior level administrative support position.
- The incumbent, along with the interagency finance team helps prepare the annual funding requests, including sections of the Operational Plan including the Health Assistance Office budget.
- The incumbent utilizes, maintains and provides administrative and technical support for various budget and programmatic databases including FACTS Info (Foreign Assistance Coordination and Tracking System), Expenditure Analysis and the GHSD Exchange.
Requirements
Education:
- A Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration or related fields is required. NYSC Certificate/Exemption 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.
Experience:
- Four (4) years of progressively responsible work experience in budget development, accounting, finance, budget analysis, planning and execution is required.
- At least two years of this experience must be in health assistance programs.
Language:
- Fluent speaking/reading/writing in English is required.
Job Knowledge:
- Knowledge and understanding of professional accounting principles, theories and practices and terminology as well as principles and accepted practices of US Government budgeting and reporting are required.
Skills And Abilities:
- Ability to collect and analyze data and prepare precise and accurate reports is required. Excellent written and communication skills to communicate with the interagency health team and external stakeholders is required.
- Incumbent must be able to think critically and have excellent problem solving and interpersonal skills to work efficiently with all the USG agencies.
- Ability to use MS office applications including Word, SharePoint, Teams, Excel, and PowerPoint is required.
- Ability to manage complex budget data including ability to use database management applications to manage increasingly complex budgets is required.
- Keyboarding and numerical skills are required.
Salary
USD $25,357 / Per Year.
Application Closing Date
27th August, 2026.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online