Bilingual Secretary at Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is a regional group of fifteen West African countries. Founded on 28 May 1975, with the signing of the Treaty of Lagos, its mission is to promote economic integration across the region. Considered one of the pillars of the African Economic Community, the organization was founded in order to achieve collective self-sufficiency for its member states by creating a single large trading bloc through an economic and trading union. It also serves as a peacekeeping force in the region. The organization operates officially in three co-equal languages French, English, and Portuguese.

We are currently recruiting for the position below:

Job Title: Bilingual Secretary

Reference: ECW-COMM/REC/HR-G/001/2015
Grade: G5
Location: Abuja
Department: Human Resources
Directorate: Human Resources
Supervisor: Director, Human Resources
Duration: Permanent

Duties and Responsibilities

• Management of the Supervisor&'s schedule: receive and welcome visitors; organise and manage appointments; keep the Supervisor's timetable; make telephone calls; verify in-coming calls to ensure their importance and possibility to respond; manage the Experts diary and schedule;
• Administrative management: organise meetings; receive, draft, type and make follow-up on administrative letters; meeting room bookings; provide supplies to the office;
• Management of mail: create a recording system of in-coming and out-going mails; ensure archiving and filing of documents; manage documents (in-coming and out-going, filing of letters); ensure follow-up on documents submitted to the Director for signature;
• Undertake any other duty assigned by the superiors.

Qualifications/Experience/Skills

• Vocational Training/Diploma or equivalent in Secretarial work or Administration;
• At least 6 years experience in a similar position;
• Excellent command of computer applications: MS-Office (Windows, Word, Excel, Internet);
• Document and database management skills;
• Sense of confidentiality;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills;
• Able to work under pressure in a multicultural environment;
• Organised and high sense of responsibility and relations;

Age:

• The officer should not be over 50 years old at the point of recruitment.

Language:

• Fluency (written and oral) in two of the official languages of ECOWAS: French, English and Portuguese. A working knowledge of a third ECOWAS language would be an advantage.

Remuneration
Annual Salary: USD 19,388 - USD 25,781

Application Closing Date
30th June, 2015.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online

Note: This position is a locally recruited position which means that candidates applying for this position must be legally resident in the Member State of the duty station at the time of application.