African Collaborations Group Seeks Founding CEO to Lead Continent-Scale Sport Infrastructure Initiative

LONDON, United Kingdom, January 19, 2026 — African Collaborations Group (ACG)

Location: Flexible (Africa or Europe, with frequent travel)
Employment Type: Full-time
Start Date: Q1 2026

African Collaborations Group Appoints Founding Chief Executive Officer

African Collaborations Group (ACG), a strategic project origination and collaboration platform focused on the industrialisation of sport in Africa, has opened recruitment for its Founding Chief Executive Officer.

ACG has recently been awarded an exclusive mandate by a major African country to originate, structure and advance a landmark sport and entertainment district, taking the project from early concept through feasibility and toward full bankability.

This founding CEO role presents a rare opportunity to lead a first-of-its-kind, continent-scale initiative at the intersection of infrastructure development, urban regeneration, sport, youth employment and long-term economic transformation.

About African Collaborations Group (ACG)

African Collaborations Group is a strategic project origination and collaboration platform dedicated to industrialising sport in Africa through bankable sport and entertainment infrastructure ecosystems. ACG convenes the full stakeholder ecosystem—governments and PPP authorities, DFIs, private investors, developers, operators, designers, academics, and specialist advisers—to move complex projects from concept to feasibility and toward investment readiness under disciplined governance and measurable impact frameworks.

ACG’s flagship initiative, Victory District™, is a co-creation framework for integrated sport and entertainment districts designed for year-round activation, diversified revenue streams, sustainable operations and strong social and economic outcomes.

Role Purpose

The Founding CEO will lead the Victory District™ proof-of-concept from mandate-driven mobilisation and feasibility through bankability and financial close, while establishing the governance, operating cadence and stakeholder alignment required for successful execution.

A central responsibility of the role is to architect, secure and institutionalise ACG’s commercial and income model for the flagship project—ensuring it is coherent, defensible and embedded directly within the feasibility and transaction pathway, rather than treated as an afterthought.

Beyond the inaugural project, the CEO will build the platform, playbook and institutional credibility required to scale ACG into a repeatable, continent-wide sport infrastructure origination engine.

Role Summary

The Founding CEO will be responsible for:

• Leading the first Victory District™ project from feasibility through bankability and financial close, and overseeing the transition into delivery.

• Coordinating a high-calibre international consortium of advisers and delivery partners under a disciplined governance and reporting structure.

• Managing senior-level relationships with governments, DFIs and institutional partners, maintaining trust, alignment and momentum.

• Designing and securing ACG’s commercial model and revenue architecture, ensuring it is contractually documented, bankable and embedded in transaction structures.

• Driving commercial structuring, SPV preparation and multi-stakeholder alignment across public and private actors.

• Building ACG into Africa’s leading sport infrastructure origination platform, with a scalable pipeline and repeatable development playbook.

This role is suited to a senior infrastructure executive with deep project origination experience across PPPs, DFIs and sovereign development, ready to step into a founding, continent-scale leadership mandate.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership

• Lead the full development lifecycle of Victory District™ (concept → feasibility → bankability → PPP/SPV → financial close).

• Define ACG’s long-term strategy, positioning and expansion across African markets.

• Establish a disciplined operating cadence, including workplans, steering committees, reporting and risk management.

Government & Institutional Engagement

• Represent ACG with Ministers, Heads of State, DFIs and international organisations.

• Lead negotiations on MoUs, PPP and concession frameworks, and SPV structures.

• Maintain a credible, controlled institutional interface aligned with confidentiality and governance requirements.

Consortium Management

• Coordinate global financial, legal, design and technical partners with clear accountability and delivery standards.

• Ensure feasibility and transaction outputs meet DFI and investment committee expectations.

• Maintain ACG’s authority within consortium governance structures.

Commercial & Financial Structuring

• Design and embed ACG’s revenue architecture within feasibility assumptions, SPV budgets and transaction documentation.

• Safeguard ACG’s commercial entitlements throughout procurement and structuring processes.

• Lead investor engagement and readiness for financial close, including risk allocation and capital formation strategies.

Required Profile

The ideal candidate will bring:

• 15+ years’ experience in infrastructure finance, PPP development, project origination, DFI engagement or sovereign advisory.

• Proven leadership of complex, multi-stakeholder infrastructure programmes in Africa or emerging markets.

• Strong credibility and relationships across governments, DFIs and leading advisory or engineering firms.

• Gravitas to operate at ministerial, board and institutional level, with strong negotiation capability.

• Demonstrated ability to translate political ambition into bankable commercial structures.

• A genuine commitment to youth development, impact and Africa’s long-term transformation.

• Experience in stadium development, urban regeneration or large-scale mixed-use real estate is an advantage but not essential.

Compensation and Platform Value

This is a founder-level CEO opportunity, not a conventional corporate appointment.

The package includes:

• A lean fixed base reflecting the early-stage, high-impact nature of the platform.

• Significant long-term upside through participation in revenue streams generated by the first Victory District™.

• Exceptional visibility and career positioning as a champion of sport industrialisation in Africa.

Through APO Group, the role also benefits from:

• Continental media positioning and personal brand development.

• Invitations to major African and global conferences.

• Coverage in leading international media outlets.

• Access to elite networks across government, sport and development finance.

Full compensation details will be shared during confidential discussions.
All applications will be treated with strict confidentiality.