Administrative Assistant at IITA - International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

Ref. IITA-HR-NRS2016-021
Location: Ibadan
Recruitment Type: National (3-year renewable contract)

Responsibilities
Successful candidate will among other things perform the following duties:

• Assist in day to day project administrative duties
• Handling correspondence, photocopying, binding and other paperwork.
• Assist in the preparation of Travel Authorization and Cash Advance/Expense Claims for traveling arrangement of project staff.
• Assist in the preparation of requests for internal purchases and Purchases Order of office stationery and machineries.
• Assist in basic financial record positing and verification on the budget
• Assist in the following up and handling purchases/ oracle requests.
• Taking minutes at project meetings.
• Such other duties, properly assigned, as may be occasioned by the exigencies of the duties by the Supervisor.

Qualifications and Skills

• HND/B.Sc in Business Administration and other related fields with minimum of 2 (two) years’ experience in Project Administration.

The ideal candidate must possess:

• Good understanding of budgeting and financial management procedures.
• Excellent computer skills with good grasp of spreadsheets, word processing and other MS office applications, and ability to learn new applications quickly.
• Excellent writing and oral communication skills.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word and Power Point).
• Strong ability to coordinate, prioritise workload
• Good team spirit and also participate as a team member in the accomplishment of project task.

Remuneration
We offer highly competitive salary with equally attractive benefits and excellent working conditions in a pleasant campus environment.

Application Deadline
10th May, 2016.