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Administrative Assistant, International Development Policy and Practice

Employer
ActionAid
Location
EC1R 0BJ, London (Greater)
Salary
£25,120 - £25,878
Closing date
24 Mar 2019

Job Details

ActionAid UK are recruiting for an Administrative Assistant to support their International Development Policy and Practice team

 

ActionAid is an international charity that works with women and girls living in poverty. Our dedicated local staff are ending violence against women and girls and helping change lives, for good. We won’t stop until women and girls are out of danger, out of poverty and on track to create the future they want.

ActionAid UK are recruiting for an Administrative Assistant to support their International Development Policy and Practice team. This is a key role within the Policy Advocacy and Programmes Department.

The Administrative Assistant will take responsibly for providing high quality administrative and targeted support to their specific technical team within the department.

This will include managing the scheduling of meetings and appointments and ensuring meetings are well serviced.

The post holder will be responsible for collating, formatting and circulating core organisational and team documents and for taking minutes in meetings.

The Administrative Assistant will act as the first point of contact for team visitors to the office, ensuring they are welcomed in an appropriate and timely fashion.

An important part of this role is the organisation of travel arrangements for overseas partners and guests including arranging flights, providing travel health advice, visas and local currency, and also preparing detailed travel itineraries as required.

We will look to the Administrative Assistant to support the work of business development, programming and policy.

The Administrative Assistant will also process expenses and invoices and in doing so, will ensure that the relevant approval processes are followed and that appropriate records are kept.

In order to succeed within this role applicants must have good attention to detail, proven administration skill and the ability to support a busy team to function smoothly.

It is important that applicants are willing to adhere to our feminist principles and that they have a good understanding of international development issues.

ActionAid is committed to driving improvement through digital channels, tools and ways of working. We will ensure that we provide the technology and the training to enable all staff to perform their roles to the best of their abilities. In return, we ask that all staff are committed to continually improving their digital skills and knowledge within the working environment. Our recruitment processes will evaluate the digital skills of all applicants.  

Please note that this role is being offered as a fixed term contract for up to 12 months to cover maternity leave.

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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