Administrative Assistant
Description
The
administrative assistant shall be responsible for administrative and
operational support in the execution of Health programs, initiatives, and
activities in-line with the Foundation’s mission of championing access to
affordable quality healthcare services. He/she shall:
Responsibilities
- Be responsible for procuring venues, organizing
meals, stationery, accommodation bookings, vendor contracts, transport,
and other logistical components of the main events.
- Coordinate and work with vendors/suppliers to
ensure they provide proper services.
- Coordinate guest lists, food service arrangements,
menu planning, decorative and table set up.
- Monitor event registration and manage guest
participation with guidance from the programs manager
- Provide general administrative support during
conferences, workshops, and various trainings.
- Assist in developing and maintaining filing system
and data base for managing Program documentation, including concept notes,
project proposals, project agreements, contracts etc., ensuring easy
retrieval of the same.
- Maintain files for the Foundation and updating
Health Pillar’s policies and procedure manuals (PnPs).
- Improve/tighten storage/retrieval systems; update
and manage indexes.
- Ensure purchase requisitions for all goods and
services are well documented and in line with the group’s policies
- Work closely with EGF finance department to ensure
that all invoices are correct, and the service providers are paid within
one month from the date of the invoice
- Ensure supplier creation into the ERP system to
facilitate payments
- Handle correspondences for the program
- Respond to queries from walk in visitors about the
health program
- Organize transport for staff going for field
visits, meetings; both locally and internationally.
- Schedule program meetings and taking minutes
- Stationery control for the program
- Maintain an asset record for the program
- Handle dispatch for the program
- Handle new staff onboarding- work station
allocation, set up on emails and all systems in conjunction with HR and
IT.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree from a recognized university
- Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, and
PowerPoint)
- Prior experience & demonstrated ability in
administrative functions for programmatic work
- Experience handling donor requests and funding
related documentation and reports. Experience working with development /
funding partners presents an added advantage
- Ability to prioritize and take initiative
- A team player with strong organization,
communication, and interpersonal skills
- Creative, open-minded, flexible, able to analyze
and make decisions
- Able to set clear objectives, coordinate multiple
tasks, trouble shoot and & work across teams to meet short-and
long-term deadlines
- Results driven
How
to Apply