Action Appointments Ghana Vacancies 2018

Special Olympics transforms lives through the sports. Special Olympics is the world’s largest sports organization for people with intellectual disabilities: with more than 4.5 million athletes in 170 countries around the world and millions more volunteers and supporters. Since the establishment of Special Olympics in 1968, the number of people with and without intellectual disabilities who are involved with the organization has been growing, but the unmet need to reach more people with intellectual disabilities is staggering.

The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competition in a variety of Olympic-type sports for children and adults with intellectual disability, giving them continuing opportunities to develop physical fitness, demonstrate courage, experience joy and participate in a sharing of gifts, skills and friendship with their families, other Special Olympics athletes and the community..

Job Description

Job Title: BILINGUAL ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT, FRENCH AND ENGLISH

Preferably located in any of the Francophone West African counties  or any other west Africa Countries, Special Olympics seeks to appoint a BILINGUAL ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT, FRENCH AND ENGLISH to assist the Senior Organizational Development Manager in providing administration support such as follow ups on reports, translations of emails and important documents.

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Ensuring critical documents and correspondences to French countries are translated
• Translating of grant reports after review by Sr. Organizational Development Manager
• Following up on grants reports as well as other documents and send updates to Sr. Organizational Development Manager for action.
• Sending monthly update reports to Sr. Organizational Development Manager
• Delivering assigned or delegated duties on schedule

Required Skills or Experience

Bilingual Organisational Development Assistant, French and English must be able to demonstrate:

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher
• Be able to travel, to work beyond core hours when necessary and be able to meet deadlines
• Proficient bilingual (French and English) translation and interpretation capabilities, both written and spoken
• Knowledge and experience in the intellectual disability community and/or Special Olympics desired
• Editorial capability in both English and French is an advantage
• Computer knowledge/internet experience
• Knowledge of working with persons with intellectual disabilities
• Ability to compile proposals and concept notes
• Sound knowledge of volunteer management
• Strong skills and experience in planning and evaluation
• Strong organizational skill

How to Apply

View the full job description and application instructions on the Vacancies page at www.actionappointments.co.za and email your application by Friday 15^th June 2018 to [email protected]