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Departmental Officer - Policy Advocacy and Programmes

Employer
ActionAid
Location
EC1R 0BJ, London (Greater)
Salary
£29,634 - £30,530 per annum
Closing date
23 Sep 2018

Job Details

We are recruiting for a Departmental Officer to provide high quality administrative support to our Policy Advocacy and Programmes department.

 

The Policy, Advocacy and Programmes department is a key delivery partner in ActionAid UK’s new strategy to promote a world where women and girls are valued and live free from violence and can exercise their rights to promote their own economic empowerment, safety, equality and voice.

The Departmental Officer will provide high quality administrative support to the director, the advocacy team and support to the rest of the department as required, so this role is essential to ensure the smooth running of the department.

A large focus of this role is to provide administrative support to the Director of the department, so applicants must have previous experience of proactive, effective diary management, including appointment prioritisation, scheduling and planning meetings, and organising all travel arrangements including flights, health documentation, visas, and local currency and travel itineraries.

The post holder will also ensure regular and efficient financial administration and reporting on the Director’s budget, so applicants must have previous experience of working with budgets.

You will be a key member of the Policy Advocacy and Programmes department, as you will assist with departmental meetings and away days, including compiling meeting agendas, circulating any necessary paperwork beforehand and taking minutes.

Applicants must have extensive experience and expertise in using Outlook calendar and email, including diary management, coordinating meetings and making travel arrangements.

They must also have advanced IT skills, including Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint and use of databases.

To be considered for this role, you must also have experience and high level of expertise in taking minutes and of coordinating and liaising across teams, particularly in large and/or complex organisations.

We are committed to flexible working and therefore are open to flexible working arrangements, including the potential for a job share for this role.

If you are committed to promoting a world where women and girls are valued and live free from violence, can exercise their own economic rights, safety, equality and voice please complete an application form.

Company

ActionAid is an international development charity which works in 45 countries across Africa, Asia and Latin America. Founded in 1972, ActionAid is an international federation and has offices in Johannesburg, Nairobi, Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok and Washington DC, as well as London.

ActionAid UK is part of the international federation and almost all of the people and partners who run ActionAid programmes are from the developing world. This means its staff are on the ground, experiencing poverty at first hand. They see day-to-day how poverty affects people’s lives, and are uniquely placed to give a voice to the women and children who suffer most.

ActionAid’s work has several different components, unified by a commitment to place women and girls at the centre of its work. The charity aims to end hunger by giving millions of people in extreme poverty the skills they need to grow sustainable food, and campaigns to address the causes of hunger.

ActionAid also responds to emergencies and conflicts. It provided emergency assistance to more than 600,000 people in 2015 and trained nearly 46,000 others to protect lives and prepare for emergencies. In total the charity responded to 27 emergencies around the world last year.

Improving access to education is another facet of its mission. 59 million children, more than half of them girls, were out of school in 2013. ActionAid works with more than 5,000 schools across Africa, Asia and Latin America to help over a millions girls and boys get the free, quality education they are entitled to.

Women’s rights and gender equality informs all of ActionAid’s activities. The charity works with communities against female genital mutilation, gender-based violence and forced early marriage.

ActionAid also campaigns for tax justice, fairer wages and more effective aid which can tackle the roots causes of poverty. It estimates that poorer countries lose around $200 billion a year from tax dodging by companies.

A variety of different roles are available at ActionAid including policy adviser, fundraising offer and HR manager. Employee benefits are plentiful, encompassing the opportunity to develop new skills, a pension scheme, childcare vouchers and free advice services.

ActionAid also supports selected UK employees to travel to host countries in order to gain first-hand experience of its in-country work. Frequent secondments, whereby employees work, for a period, in another department or different country in the federation, take place. The charity encourages job shares.

Company info
Website
Telephone
020 3122 0561
Location
33-39 Bowling Green Lane
London
EC1R 0BJ
GB

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