Office Assistant
Internal/External Vacancy Announcement #166/2018
GIZ-Sustainable Training and Education Programme II
Background
As an international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations, the federally owned Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports the German Government in achieving its development-policy objectives; and in Ethiopia, GIZ has been working for more than 40 years in bilateral cooperation on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and on commission of the Ethiopian government and international donors.
The BMZ/ Germany funded, and GIZ/ German Cooperation implemented “Sustainable Training and Education Program” (STEP) is supporting the Ethiopian Government with its reforms in Higher Education and Technical Vocational Education and Training/ TVET.
Reform of post-secondary education, particularly in the technical sector, is a critical aspect for moving Ethiopia towards its development goals. STEP supports its partners in the Ethiopian government to change the higher educational and TVET sectors targeting on the improvement of graduates’ competences needed in the labor market. The Ethiopian partners are government offices on federal and regional levels as well as educational institutions.
Position: Office Assistant
Place of Work: Hawassa
Application deadline: October 29, 2018
Required Candidate: One
Responsibilities
The persons are responsible for:
· keeping the office premises clean and tidy
· provides services at meetings, e.g. serves coffee and tea for guests and visitors
· sets up and prepares the conference rooms as instructed
· supports office or project logistics (mail runner, copy, binding etc.)
· running errands and carrying out other tasks needed to run the office smoothly
· facilitating reception area by handling incoming and outgoing calls
· handling visitors
Required qualifications, competences and experience
Qualifications
General Duties
Professional experience
Other knowledge, additional competences