Deputy Chief of Staff
People & HR, Operations
Remote
Posted on Nov 10, 2026
About Us
We’re combining global medical and technological expertise to reimagine how healthcare should fit into people’s everyday lives.
Job Description
This is a remote position.
About Reliance Health
We're a healthcare technology company of 400+ people using technology to make healthcare affordable, accessible, and delightful in emerging markets. We operate across Nigeria, Egypt, Senegal, and Côte d'Ivoire, with 300,000 people depending on us for their healthcare. We're one of Time Magazine's World's Top Healthtech Companies (2025).
We're a data-driven team that values ambitious thinking, simple communication, and working without micromanagement. We move fast, learn by doing, and our diverse team spans multiple nationalities and backgrounds.
The Role
As the Deputy Chief of Staff, you will work directly with the Group CEO and assist the Chief of staff to cover the full scope of the CEO’s office. This includes board and investor reporting, leadership meetings and retreats, KPI and performance tracking, process design and systems automation, legal and corporate document coordination, client communications, and cross-functional projects.
You will translate the CEO’s priorities into clear plans, decks, memos and follow-ups, and keeps them moving to deadlines. The role needs someone with strong analysis and numeracy who writes clearly, builds and presents decks well, manages projects tightly, and uses AI tools well without producing low-quality AI-generated work.
As the Deputy Chief of Staff, some of your responsibilities will include:
1. CEO Executive Support
- Turn the CEO’s priorities into clear action plans with owners and deadlines, and track them to completion.
- Prepare briefing notes, memos and decks for the CEO’s meetings and decisions.
2. Board & Investor Reporting
- Coordinate quarterly board packs: collect inputs from business and division owners, check the figures, and build the final deck.
- Run investor communications, including monthly updates and biannual updates to existing and prospective investors, on Zoho Campaigns.
3. Leadership Meetings & Retreats
- Run the Monthly Leadership Meeting: agenda, running order, materials and follow-up actions.
- Plan and run the leadership retreats held twice a year with a vendor, including all pre and post actions.
4. Project Management
- Lead cross-functional projects from plan to delivery, keeping timelines, owners and risks visible.
5. Client & Stakeholder Communications
- Draft and send clear, accurate communications on behalf of the CEO’s office.
6. Team Leadership
- Guide and review the work of junior staff in the CEO’s office.
7. Ad hoc Support
- Other reasonable work typical of a CEO’s office.
Requirements
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Completed NYSC with a discharge certificate or valid exemption letter.
- 3–5 years’ post-NYSC experience in an executive assistant, strategy, consulting, operations or project management role.
- High aptitude, numeracy and analysis skills; comfortable working with financial and operational data.
- Strong presentation skills, including building and presenting decks to senior audiences.
- Strong project management skills.
- Clear, structured and concise writing.
- Ability to write thoughtful work without low-quality AI-generated content.
- Strong AI skills for research, generation and producing work.
- Demonstrable discretion with confidential information.
- A remote work setup with reliable internet and power backup.
Nice to Have:
- Experience in health insurance or healthcare.
- Experience working across more than one country.
- Board or investor reporting experience.
Benefits
- Salary: ₦350,000.00 monthly
- Remote role based in Lagos, Nigeria
- Unlimited leave – take the time you need
- Premium health insurance for you and your family
- Learning and development allowance to support your growth
Ready to Join Us?
If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you. Apply today.
