The Administration and Communication Officer will assist in preparing, implementing and promoting CaLP activities in West Africa whilst ensuring adherence to Oxfam’s procedures and current agreements with partners. The post involves working in close collaboration with the Regional Focal Point and CaLP regional trainer from day to day, and daily contact with the administrative and financial departments of CaLP’s global secretariat, based in Oxford, and CaLP’s partners, in particular with the host agencies (regional office of the ACF in West Africa and Oxfam GB, in Oxford and Dakar).
Skills and Competencies:
- Extensive experience of international organisations, but also experience of working in consortium, or at least in partnership and networking, in a variety of ways: primarily in administration, but with a knowledge of finance, logistics and communication as well.
- Versatility: great discipline, with excellent organisational capacities, and at the same time possessing great flexibility, an ability to show initiative and act autonomously, whilst also having the capacity to work as part of a team.
- Proactive and focused on coming up with solutions for obstacles, within permitted guidelines.
- Literate in English. Comfortable with working in this language – including alongside colleagues who are not French speakers and for whom English is not their first language.
- Good communication and mediation skills.
- Excellent knowledge of MS Office For more information on the role please visit our website here:http://bit.ly/1O01GiT
HOW TO APPLY:
Interested people are invited to send CV and cover letter in French or English atwestafrica@cashlearning.org before January 9, 2016. Please note that CaLP may close the application process earlier if enough satisfying applications are collected before that date.
