Project Officer at British Council Nigeria - Abuja & Lagos

The British Council in Nigeria is looking for two suitable and qualified candidates to fill the post of a Project Officer in our Abuja and Lagos offices.

Job Title: Project Officer

Location: Abuja and Lagos

Context and Environment:
The post will support a small team providing tailored marketing solutions to UK Universities that wish to attract Nigerian students. It will also involve supporting projects focussed on Nigerian Universities through our ‘Internationalising Higher Education’ offer.

Job aim:
To support the direct and indirect delivery of a portfolio of Higher Education projects, to meet the British Council’s objectives, targets and partner expectations in Nigeria and the UK.

To support a network of internal and external customers and partners to meet all project targets.

Responsibilities:
In line with Equal Opportunities & Diversity and other overarching corporate policies:

• Project delivery: To respond to queries efficiently through seeking accurate information. 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 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 ensure that projects are marketed to the highest standards in print (press, publications), digitally (websites, social media, TV, radio) and at events (conferences, workshops, meetings).
• Other administrative work: As required.

How To Apply?
Read through the Abuja role profile document or Lagos role profile document. Download and complete the application form. 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.

Please read all the documents carefully before you fill in the job application form. Telephone applications will not be considered. Completed applications should be sent via email to Hposts@ng.britishcouncil.org by no later than 27 August 2012.

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered. Only candidates shortlisted for interview will be contacted. We do not accept CV's, handwritten applications or expressions of interest. The application form must clearly explain how your experience matches the above profile and include names and contact details of 3 references.
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