CIDR Assistant to the Director Job Opening in Kenya June 2014
Center International for Development and Research (CIDR) is a French based international development NGO operating in East Africa and Indian Ocean through its regional office based in Nairobi. Its main fields of intervention are agricultural value chain development, health micro insurance, inclusive finance, and devolution / decentralization.
CIDR is recruiting an Assistant to the Director, whose main duties and responsibilities will be:
- Organize and manage meetings and agenda of the director and other team members.
- Write up meetings minutes.
- Organize, file, process and broadcast information.
- Proof reading and edition of reports and documents.
- Ensure permanence at the office, and relations with the partners in the absence of the director.
- Thematic monitoring for the different areas of interventions of the office.
- Monitoring of tenders / bids and other events related to the regional office areas of interventions.
- Setting up of dossiers (tenders and bids, recruitment notice, …).
- Manage contracts with consultants.
- Organize regional office team members and head office staff missions.
- Manage and monitor planning and leaves for the office staff.
- Keep basic accounting for office short term missions.
- Monitor use of the office vehicles.
- Manage office equipment, and orders and purchases for office equipment and supplies.
- Relations with office landlord and local administration (staff contracts, registration, …).
Profile:
- At least a graduate degree.
- Experience of at least 3 years in a similar position.
- Excellent command of office computer softwares (Word, Excel, Power Point), and internet.
- Excellent writing skills.
- Basic accounting skills.
Position based in Nairobi.
One year contract renewable.
Applications to be sent before June 20, 2014 to paul.picot@cidr.org