The Head of Legal will provide legal oversight and advisory support to Ojah Scholarship Foundation across its key initiatives, including OSF scholarships, Her Next Step, and METS — Minds in Emerging Technology & Science.

 

This role will support the review, drafting, and improvement of contracts, partnership agreements, memorandums of understanding, volunteer and mentor agreements, scholar terms, sponsorship documents, privacy and data protection materials, safeguarding policies, and internal governance policies. The role will help ensure that OSF’s agreements and policies are clear, ethical, practical, and aligned with the organisation’s mission.

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This role is ideal for a legally trained professional who is thoughtful, discreet, reliable, and passionate about education, youth development, nonprofit governance, and social impact. The volunteer will gain meaningful experience supporting a growing organisation at leadership level, while helping OSF strengthen its governance, manage risk, protect its people and programs, and build trusted relationships with partners, scholars, mentors, volunteers, and sponsors. Benefits include professional recognition, strategic advisory exposure, access to OSF’s growing network, and the opportunity to shape the legal and policy foundations of OSF’s next stage of growth.

The Success and Development Coach will support Ojah Scholarship Foundation across its key initiatives, including OSF scholarships, Her Next Step, and METS — Minds in Emerging Technology & Science.

 

This role involves helping scholars, mentees, and emerging young professionals build confidence, direction, discipline, and practical life and career skills through goal-setting, coaching conversations, development workshops, group sessions, reflection activities, and accountability support. The coach will contribute to topics such as academic growth, career readiness, communication, personal branding, productivity, resilience, leadership, and navigating life and professional transitions.

 

This role is ideal for someone empathetic, mature, reliable, and passionate about youth development, education, mentorship, and social impact. The volunteer will gain hands-on experience in coaching, mentoring, leadership development, nonprofit programming, and community-building, while directly supporting young people in Nigeria to make the most of the opportunities available to them. Benefits include professional development, recognition for contribution, access to OSF’s growing network, collaboration with OSF management and program leads, and the opportunity to help scholars and mentees turn ambition into clarity and meaningful progress.

The Head of Counselling will provide wellbeing, counselling, and psychosocial support oversight across Ojah Scholarship Foundation’s key initiatives, including OSF scholarships, Her Next Step, and METS — Minds in Emerging Technology & Science.

 

This role will help OSF develop a safe, ethical, and supportive approach to emotional wellbeing, resilience, safeguarding, confidentiality, and referral pathways. The role may include advising on participant wellbeing concerns, supporting group wellbeing sessions, developing mental health awareness resources, and helping volunteers and mentors understand the boundaries between mentorship, coaching, counselling, and crisis support.

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This role is ideal for a qualified or experienced counselling, psychology, mental health, social work, pastoral care, or youth support professional who is compassionate, discreet, culturally sensitive, and passionate about education, youth development, and social impact. The volunteer will bring meaningful leadership-level experience supporting a growing organisation, while helping OSF build a culture where scholars, mentees, and community members feel seen, safe, supported, and equipped to thrive beyond academic and career opportunities. Benefits include OSF board participation and recognition, advisory experience, access to OSF’s network, and the opportunity to shape OSF’s wellbeing and duty-of-care framework.

*(Four Positions Available for Immediate Start)

The Student Success Advisor (SSA) will support a handful of OSF scholars and HNS mentees across their scholarship duration and their time  in the Her Next Step mentorship program from entry to successful completion.

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This role involves providing encouragement, check-ins, accountability, and practical guidance to help the scholars/HNS mentees stay focused, build confidence, navigate university life, prepare for opportunities, and take meaningful steps toward their academic, personal, and career goals. The advisor may also support mentoring conversations, student engagement activities, reflection sessions, workshops, and community-building moments across OSF initiatives.

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This role is ideal for someone approachable, kind, reliable, and passionate about helping young people grow. The volunteer will gain hands-on experience in mentoring, student development, youth engagement, nonprofit programming, and community support, while making a direct difference in the lives of students and emerging professionals. Benefits include professional development, recognition for contribution, access to OSF’s growing network, collaboration with mentors and program leads, and the opportunity to be a steady, encouraging voice that helps students believe in themselves and keep moving forward.

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The Researcher will support Ojah Scholarship Foundation across research, opportunity mapping, content development, and strategic insight, with a primary focus on our new community, METS — Minds in Emerging Technology & Science. This role involves identifying relevant scholarships, fellowships, grants, internships, STEM opportunities, emerging trends, partner organisations, and useful resources that can support young people, students, graduates, and early-career professionals. The Researcher will also contribute to OSF’s ongoing initiatives by supporting impact research, program development, mentorship activities, communications, and partnership research.

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This role is ideal for someone who is curious, organised, analytical, and passionate about education, technology, science, social impact, and youth development. The volunteer will gain hands-on experience in nonprofit strategy, research, communications, community-building, and opportunity curation, while contributing to a growing organisation committed to expanding access and opening doors for talented young people. Benefits include professional development, portfolio-building, recognition for contributions, access to OSF’s growing network, and the chance to help shape METS from its early stage.

The Graphic Designer will support Ojah Scholarship Foundation across its key initiatives, including OSF scholarships, Her Next Step, and METS — Minds in Emerging Technology & Science. This role involves creating clear, engaging, and professional visuals for social media, newsletters, reports, campaigns, presentations, events, and website content. The designer will help transform OSF’s stories, data, trends, scholar journeys, program updates, and community opportunities into strong visual content that communicates impact and inspires action.

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​This role is ideal for someone creative, organised, and passionate about storytelling, education, youth development, STEM, women’s empowerment, and social impact. The volunteer will gain hands-on experience in nonprofit branding, campaign design, data visualisation, visual storytelling, and impact communication, while contributing to a growing organisation that supports talented young people. Benefits include portfolio-building, professional development, recognition for creative contributions, access to OSF’s network, and the opportunity to use design as a tool for visibility, connection, and meaningful change.