Administrative Assistant at The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA)

The International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) is a non-profit organisation that develops agricultural solutions to address Africa’s most serious issues of hunger, malnutrition, poverty, and natural resource depletion. We promote lives, improve food and nutrition security, boost employment, and protect natural resource integrity by collaborating with numerous partners across Sub-Saharan Africa. IITA is a member of the CGIAR, a worldwide agriculture research alliance dedicated to ensuring food security in the future.

Title: Administrative Assistant

Location: Ibadan, Oyo

Contract: 1-year renewable Contract

Duties

• Assist the Project Manager and the Director, Development and Delivery Office in the day-to-day project administrative processes and function.
• Assist in handling logistical arrangements for project meetings, workshops, official travels and accommodation (flight and hotel booking, travel authorization requests, travel advances and retirement of claims as needed).
• Assist in raising the projects’ internal/external requisitions with supply Chain and assist to follow up with finance Office on processing of invoices and payments.
• Assist in managing the projects’ related inventories, raise work order and follow up till execution stage.
• Perform administrative activities of other related projects that falls under the purview of the Project Manager.
• Assist in coordinating, recording and document minutes of the Project Annual Review Meeting, project advisory committee and other meetings for the project management team.
• Assist in sending monthly reporting template and collating the monthly reports of all the projects’ partners.
• Perform any other job-related task as may be assigned by the Supervisor.

Requirements                   

• HND / B.Sc in Business / Public Administration or related field with a minimum of two (2) years’ experience performing a similar role in a well-structured environment.

Competencies:
The ideal candidate must:

• Have excellent oral and writing communication skills in English.
• Be well organized, able to multitask and work under pressure with minimal supervision.

Deadline: 10th November, 2023.

How to Apply: Interested and qualified candidates should Click Here to apply online