Executive Assistant for Cameroon
In order to provide the Country Director and his team with in administrative services and to ensure liaison with staff, stakeholders and partners, the WWF seeks an Executive Assistant for its Cameroon Country Programme Office.
Under the supervision of the Country Director, the Executive Assistant’s major duties and responsibilities are:
• Assists the Country Director in his/her management and functions in networking with the CARPO offices, the Regional Office, the secretariat, NOs, the wider WWF network as well as other organisations and partners;
• Coordinates and monitors multiple and diverse work processes and activities to ensure management decisions and directives are properly carried out and the timely delivery of products;
• Organises and prioritises the Country Director’s agenda for calls, meetings, appointments and streamlines requests and workload as necessary;
• Edits enquiries, reports and documents as appropriate and maintains filing and archiving systems;
• Follows up and ensures documents / contracts have the necessary authorisations and meet operational standards prior to the Country Director’s approval;
• Plans trips for the Country Director and designated CCPO MT members and ensures effective logistics items are up to date;
• Ensures the leave monitoring of the Yaoundé based teams, ensures leave planning and monitoring of the CCPO management team
• Coordinates logistics for all relevant meetings in Cameroon;
• Organize external events as necessary, including agendas, production of reports and monitoring follow up of recommendations;
• Follows up relations with the media;
• Liaises with a wide variety of high level contacts in government offices, other international organizations, NGOs and the public sector;
• Independently responds to extensive and diverse inquiries;
• Facilitates information sharing and lesson learning within the CCPO MT and all CARPO offices by providing regular updates for CARPO internal communications tools.
Profile:
Required Qualifications
• University degree in Administration or equivalent in related field;
• A minimum of five years experience as assistant to a senior management function, preferably in an international organisation/company.
Required skills and competencies
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation competence, with attention to details;
• Proactive attitude and ability to take initiative and work independently;
• Excellent team player with good networking and interpersonal skills;
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Operational in English and French (written and oral)
• Excellent computer knowledge, including internet, Power Point, spreadsheets.
• Familiarity with documentation layout and organization
• An interest in the field of nature conservation and natural resource management is an asset
Location: The position is based in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Interested candidates who meet the above requirements should send a cover letter and a detailed CV to the address recruitccpo@wwfcarpo.org by March 30, 2012 at the latest. The subject should read 004EA.
Under the supervision of the Country Director, the Executive Assistant’s major duties and responsibilities are:
• Assists the Country Director in his/her management and functions in networking with the CARPO offices, the Regional Office, the secretariat, NOs, the wider WWF network as well as other organisations and partners;
• Coordinates and monitors multiple and diverse work processes and activities to ensure management decisions and directives are properly carried out and the timely delivery of products;
• Organises and prioritises the Country Director’s agenda for calls, meetings, appointments and streamlines requests and workload as necessary;
• Edits enquiries, reports and documents as appropriate and maintains filing and archiving systems;
• Follows up and ensures documents / contracts have the necessary authorisations and meet operational standards prior to the Country Director’s approval;
• Plans trips for the Country Director and designated CCPO MT members and ensures effective logistics items are up to date;
• Ensures the leave monitoring of the Yaoundé based teams, ensures leave planning and monitoring of the CCPO management team
• Coordinates logistics for all relevant meetings in Cameroon;
• Organize external events as necessary, including agendas, production of reports and monitoring follow up of recommendations;
• Follows up relations with the media;
• Liaises with a wide variety of high level contacts in government offices, other international organizations, NGOs and the public sector;
• Independently responds to extensive and diverse inquiries;
• Facilitates information sharing and lesson learning within the CCPO MT and all CARPO offices by providing regular updates for CARPO internal communications tools.
Profile:
Required Qualifications
• University degree in Administration or equivalent in related field;
• A minimum of five years experience as assistant to a senior management function, preferably in an international organisation/company.
Required skills and competencies
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation competence, with attention to details;
• Proactive attitude and ability to take initiative and work independently;
• Excellent team player with good networking and interpersonal skills;
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Operational in English and French (written and oral)
• Excellent computer knowledge, including internet, Power Point, spreadsheets.
• Familiarity with documentation layout and organization
• An interest in the field of nature conservation and natural resource management is an asset
Location: The position is based in Yaoundé, Cameroon.
Interested candidates who meet the above requirements should send a cover letter and a detailed CV to the address recruitccpo@wwfcarpo.org by March 30, 2012 at the latest. The subject should read 004EA.
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