Executive Assistant at Oxfam Nigeria

Oxfam is an international non-profit organization committed to ridding the world of poverty. We have a conviction that once given the chance to do so, people are well capable of building a livelihood without poverty on their own. To do this, we work with local organizations, build their capacity and provide strategic funding to local projects in developing countries. We also lobby governments and companies to take into account the interests of the poorest people and campaign to involve men and women also in our work.

We are recruiting for the position below:

Job Title: Executive Assistant

Location: Abuja
Job Type: Full-time
Report to: The Country Director

The Main Tasks

• Accountable to the Country Director for the management and delivery of information, correspondence, and organizational procedures related to the agenda and work of the Country Director and Oxfam's senior management.
• Be highly flexible with outstanding organisational skills, the ability to juggle the demands of the Country Director and Country Leadership Team, to effectively respond to constantly changing demands.
• Ability to manage an extremely busy diary, organising meetings, arranging travels including visa and ensuring that materials are ready for meetings.
• Ability to be involved in ad-hoc projects, or event management and research as required.
• Ability to develop new ways of doing things that will help to make CD and CLT work run as smoothly as possible and provide business support for the day-to-day running of the CD's Office.
• Ability to understand how large-scale organisations operate and handle everything with diplomacy and sensitivity - maintaining the highest level of professionalism at all times.
• Upon request from the Country Director and/or the Country Leadership Team or similar governance groups, produce, assimilate, analyse and use program and other information from varied sources and disseminate them accordingly.
• Management of a network of relationships across affiliates and a wide range of internal and external partnerships and alliances so as to ensure consistency of messaging across a range of information and communication needs.
• Support the Country Director and the Country Leadership Team or similar governance groups on the quality of all outgoing information products, processes, and documents, and guarantee that approval procedures are in compliance with standards.
• Support the One Oxfam change and implementation process and ensure that change documentation and associated communications and reports are delivered successfully inside Oxfam in Nigeria and to regional governance groups.
• Work with the Country Leadership Team to develop materials associated with program activity, and eventually summarize working meetings and similar events.
• Support the Country Director and the Country Leadership Team or similar governance groups in other relevant task and special assignments.
• The candidate will have a sharp mind, great relationship development skills and a cool head under pressure.
• Have numeracy skills meaning, the person will have no problem handling a substantial budget.

Requirements

• Fluency in written and spoken English.
• A good University Degree.

Application Closing Date
13th October, 2015.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Application letter and Curriculum vitae as one attachment in English to: [email protected] to the attention of "The Recruiter"

Note: For questions on this position you can contact, Doris Nwankwo at [email protected]