Project Director (Upstream & Midstream Gas Development)

Job Summary

• The Project Director holds overall accounability for actively developing a portfolio of upstream and micistream gas projects, leading a cross-functional team through subsurface and drilling and compelion, corporate structuring, commercial and financing strategy and regulatory alignments.
• The Project Director leads the core project team. coordinales all workstreams, and serves as the primary point of accountability to senior leadership on programme delivery, risk and decision-making.

Key Responsibilities

• Hold overall accountability for programme delivery against an agreed roadmap to final investment decision (FID) and into execution.
• Lead anci coordinate all workstreams including. subsurface, driling and completion, commercial and financing, regulatory and organisational development.
• Build, lead and develop the core project leam, including direct oversight of workstream leads.
• Own the master programme schedule, budget, and risk and issue register; escalate material risks and decisions to senior leadership in a timely manner.
• Establish and maintain programme govemance - steering committee structure, reporting cadence. and decision rights.
• Represent the project in senior stokeholder engagements, including senior leadership and the
• Board, government and regulatory bodies, financiers, and technical and commercial partners.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Geosciences or a related technical discipline; an advanced degree or relevant executive qualification is an advantage.
• At least 20 years in the upstream oil & gas industry. with substantive, hands-on experience spanning the full upstream value chain: subsurface data acquisition and interpretation, reserves and resource evaluation, drilling/completion engineering and operations, well completions, and production and facilities.
• A demonstrated frack record leading major upstream project developments from concept through FID and inlo execulion. ideaily including greenfieid or major brownfield development.
• Prior experience operating al a senior leadership level (eg. Project Director, VP Projects, General Manager. or Asset/Country Manager). specifically in the development of liquelied natural gas (LNG) projects, with direct accountabilily to a Board or Investmeni Committee.
• Experience managing multi-disciplinary teams and a broad sel of external stakeholders. including partners, regulators, financiers and contractors.

Advantageous:

• Experience operating within the Nigerian upstream regulatory and operating environment.
• Experience raising or securing project finance for a major capitol project.

Key Competencies:

• Deep technical credibility across subsurface, drilling and completions - able to engage as a peer with technical specialists. not simply manage process from a distance.
• Strong executive presence: comfortable and effective engaging senior leadership and the Board. government officials, and intemational financiers and partners.
• Programme and risk management discipline appropriate to a major capital project.
• Decisive and structured, with the ability to operate at pace under time pressure and against a compressed timeline.
• High personal integrity, sound judgement. and the ability lo operate with a degree of independence while remaining closely alignec to leadership direction.

Application Closing Date
19th August, 2026.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should submit their applications, quoting relevant references, attaching Curriculum Vite and scanned passport-size photograph to:  using the job title as the subject of the email.

Note : All applications will be treated in strict confidence and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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