British Council RecruitsTemporary Project Officer – Lagos

The British Council is the UK's international organization for educational opportunities and cultural relations. We work in over 100 countries worldwide to build engagement and trust for the UK through the exchange of knowledge and ideas between people.

We are recruiting to fill the below position:

Job position: Temporary Project Officer

Location: Lagos
Duration of Job: Indefinite
Reports to: Project Manager

Purpose of Job

• To support the achievement of country plan objectives in Nigeria by delivering examinations.
• To support the direct and indirect delivery of a portfolio of large scale and local projects, increasingly through partnership , to meet the British Councils objectives and targets and partner expectations in Nigeria.
• To support a network of internal and external service providers and partners to meet all project targets.

Context and environment:

• The post will involve supporting large scale projects in Nigeria under the supervision of the Project Manager-Schools or other named Project Managers.
• The post will be based in Lagos and required to work across various project portfolios as necessary.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:
In line with EOD and other overarching corporate policies

Project delivery:

• To provide support for projects and organise events to a high standard and within deadline.
• To make arrangements for visitors including booking travel, accommodation and preparing programmes.

Financial administration:

• To provide financial support to the supervising project Manager and other named project managers, including raising of purchase orders, getting quotes from suppliers, tracking payments and correcting mispostings.

Scorecard:

• To administer our monitoring and evaluation tool called Scorecard.
• Collect and record all data within deadline and according to corporate standards.

Marketing and Communications:

• To provide communication support to internal and external contacts marketing projects where required to the highest standards.
• Other administrative work: As required.

Key relationships

External

• Schools, Education Stakeholders and contacts, venues, consultants and supplier.

Internal

• Coordination and cooperation with colleagues in both regional and local Schools team
• liaison with finance colleagues to ensure that all financial tasks and deadlines are fully met Other Project Management Teams.

Qualifications and Skills

• Relevant post-secondary school qualification.
• Experience of organizing projects or events.
• Experience of basic financial administration.
• Good communication skills - Level 2.
• Computer Skills - Level 1 .

Remuneration
N94, 016.00 per month. This includes allowances commensurate to experience and qualifications.

Application Closing Date
2nd May, 2013

Method of Application
Please read through the Temp Project Officer Role Profile. Download and complete the Temporary Application Form Project Officer. To help you understand and complete the application form, read through the ‘How to complete the application’ document. Listed within the role profile document, you will find a number of listed 'behaviours' and 'skills and knowledge'. Evidence against those criteria's will need to be provided in your role application form. To help you understand those criteria's, we have provided a 'behaviours and generic skills' dictionary at the top of this page.

Completed application forms should be submitted to: [email protected]

Note:
Only applications received on the British Council application form will be considered and only short-listed candidates will be contacted.