IMPORTANT: This Advertiser has requested that applicants MUST be National Residents / Valid Work Permit-holders. Other applicants need not apply.
We are looking for a highly motivated and conscientious Programme Administrator to work flexibly across programmes within the Centre. You will be responsible for providing extensive administrative support to a team of technical staff and assist with the implementation of a wide range of projects. You will meet with other Programme Administrators and the Management Information Officer to maintain effective administration processes and cross-programmatic consistency.
As Project Administration Assistant, you will use your excellent organisational and administrative skills to compile financial and technical reports and attend various meetings and events, liaising with clients and partners. You will support with the management of contracting and reporting for projects, responding to requests for information both internally and externally, alongside maintaining computer and paper filing systems.
You will be highly organised, flexible in approach and able to effectively manage multiple tasks and requests. You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, strong attention to detail and the ability to use your initiative to make improvements. You will demonstrate a professional approach and be capable of developing an excellent knowledge of the centres policies and procedures. Knowledge of key biodiversity issues and concepts; experience in coordinating partners, networks, stakeholder groups or steering committees and working internationally; and fluency in another UN language would be an advantage.
The Centre’s staff are experienced, ambitious and results-orientated, providing you with an opportunity to develop and contribute to your own skills. In addition to training and development opportunities, we offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including generous pension contributions.
If you are looking for a rewarding and challenging post where you can impress us with your organisational skills, motivation and commitment we want to hear from you. Please complete a WCMC application form and send it together with your CV and a short covering letter by clicking through the link here by 22nd March 2017
WCMC is a UK charity, based in Cambridge, which works in collaboration with UN Environment, under the banner of UNEP-WCMC. Our mission is to evaluate and highlight the many values of biodiversity and put authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making. Since our establishment in the 1970s, the Centre has been at the forefront of the compilation, management, analysis and dissemination of global biodiversity information, and has an outstanding record of achievement.
