Job Title: Administration Coordinator
Organisation: Educate!
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Administration Manager
About Educate!:
Educate! develops young leaders and entrepreneurs in Africa. Educate! provides a proven mix of a leadership and entrepreneurship course, long-term mentoring, and practical experience starting an enterprise for ‘A’ Level students. Educate! is working with over 20,000 diverse youth across Uganda, growing to a staff of 53 in just five years, and has already incorporated its curriculum into Uganda’s national education system to reach 25,000 students annually. The organization has received the Ashoka Fellowship and several international awards and grants, proving out a program model that can be replicated across Africa.
Job Summary: The Educate! Administration Coordinator to support the Administration Manager in External Relation Support and Office Management among others.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- External Relations Support: Communicate with key Educate! donors and visitors via email and phone calls. Oversee donor visits.
- Office Management: Supervise the Administration team, Store, Office and Staff Housing Management.
- Program Materials distribution: Oversee the arrangement, packaging and distribution of all program stationary and materials to regional coordinators.
- Scholarship Program Management:
- Make sure that scholarship students are aware of performance expectations and conduct.
- Effect school fees payments for the scholarship students according to the respective school fees structure.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The ideal candidate should exhibit a passion for working with young people;
- A minimum of two years’ programmatic and administrative leadership experience
- The candidate should hold a University degree in Business Administration, Management, Commerce or any other related field.
- Preferably, the candidate must have experience in leadership as well as team management.
How to Apply for the job:
If you desire to join us in the aforementioned capacity, please email a maximum 2 page CV with at least 3 professional references and 1 page cover letter ONLY, with subject header “Administration Coordinator – Where you found the job advert – Your Name” to ugandajobs@experienceeducate.org . If someone referred you for this position, please include his/her name in the subject as “Referral: Name”.
Deadline: 15th May 2014