The Administrator will play a vital role in ensuring that the Director receives the support required to ensure efficient operations, in particular information regarding directorate operations, for instance the status of programme activities and budgetary spend.
Main Duties:
- Manage
the annual portfolio calendar
- Offer
planning support to the Portfolio Director and help to enhance efficiency
and timeliness of Directorate activities.
- Offer
Support to the Sector Teams in respect to the planning of their work and
data gathering
- Analyze
incoming and outgoing memoranda, submissions and reports and prepare and
co-ordinate the preparation and submission of summary briefs and reports
to the Director
- Prepare
agendas and make arrangements for committee, board and other meetings
- Conduct
research, compile data, and prepare papers for consideration and
presentation by the Director.
- Meet
with individuals, special interest groups and others on behalf of the
Director to discuss issues and assess and recommend various courses of
action
- Liaise
with departmental and corporate officials and with other organizations and
associations on behalf of the Director.
Academic Qualifications
- A
minimum of a degree in a relevant field such as business management,
agriculture, development studies, Social Sciences etc.
- At
least 1 year experience of providing support to a busy NGO team of
professional staff, where a considerable amount of analytical skills are
called for.
- Some
understanding of and / or experience in budget management
- Independent
and able to work with minimal guidance and instruction.
- Good
communication and interpersonal skills
- Good
analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent
Computer skills – Microsoft Office
How to Apply;
Applications will be accepted up to 17th March
2021. Interested applicants should submit: (a) a confidential cover
letter; (b) detailed CV with names and addresses of 3 referees, including
e-mail addresses; and (c) a statement illustrating their suitability against
each of the listed qualifications/competencies/abilities, and skills. All
applications to be sent to dkimberly@focusafrica.org.
