{"id":13131,"date":"2016-05-16T15:12:19","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=13131"},"modified":"2016-05-16T15:12:19","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:12:19","slug":"ifc-job-program-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/ifc-job-program-assistant.html","title":{"rendered":"IFC Job : Program Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The International Finance Corporation(IFC)<\/strong>\u00a0Sub-Saharan Africa Department, is seeking to recruit a highly motivated and well-organized Program Assistant, who can ensure the effective support to officers\/analysts working in the Ghana Sub-region including Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Niger, and Togo. The position will be based in Accra.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job Description: Program Assistant<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Note<\/strong>: If the selected candidate is a current Bank Group staff member with a Regular or Open-Ended appointment, s\/he will retain his\/her Regular or Open-Ended appointment. All others will be offered a 2 year term appointment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Background \/ General description<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>Provide full administrative and analytical support to assigned officers.<\/li>\n<li>Assist officers with meetings (including preparing minutes), presentations and events.<\/li>\n<li>Maintain a good knowledge of work programs to ensure timely delivery of tasks.<\/li>\n<li>Track project timetables, provide feedback and help with project team coordination.<\/li>\n<li>Perform integrity due diligence searches and prepare reports. Conduct industry\/sector research on project related areas<\/li>\n<li>Participate in mission field work when required.<\/li>\n<li>Provide quality control by monitoring documents for accuracy, ensuring adherence to unit and World Bank Group guidelines and procedures, and assisting in editing, formatting, and production of documents and correspondence.<\/li>\n<li>Coordinate calendars, schedules and travel arrangements.<br \/>\nLiaise and build relationships with counterparts in key private client offices, as well as with various ministries, departments and agencies of Government, to facilitate the scheduling of meetings.<\/li>\n<li>Perform assigned general administrative tasks for the smooth running of the Accra office.<\/li>\n<li>Solve non-routine problems, and perform ad-hoc duties as required.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Duties and Accountabilities<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: disc;\">\n<li>University, polytechnic or equivalent degree\/diploma preferred, with a minimum of 5 years\u2019 relevant work experience.<\/li>\n<li>Excellent organizational, administrative, multi-tasking and time management skills.<\/li>\n<li>Proven ability to work promptly and efficiently under pressure and meet tight deadlines with minimum supervision.<\/li>\n<li>Advanced knowledge of computer applications such as Word, Lotus Notes, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Proactive, willing to go extra mile, ability to take ownership of tasks.<\/li>\n<li>Maturity, discretion and good judgment; absolute integrity and discretion in handling confidential information.<\/li>\n<li>Good interpersonal skills to interact effectively with a range of internal and external contacts.<\/li>\n<li>Proven ability to work well in a team-oriented, multi-cultural environment, and function effectively in groups.<\/li>\n<li>High degree of resourcefulness, ability to anticipate and solve problems. Strong written and verbal communication skills.<\/li>\n<li>Ability\/willingness to work late occasionally, as required.<\/li>\n<li>University, polytechnic or equivalent degree\/diploma preferred, with a minimum of 5 years\u2019 relevant work experience.<\/li>\n<li>Excellent organizational, administrative, multi-tasking and time management skills<\/li>\n<li>Proven ability to work promptly and efficiently under pressure and meet tight deadlines with minimum supervision.<\/li>\n<li>Advanced knowledge of computer applications such as Word, Lotus Notes, Excel, Powerpoint, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Proactive, willing to go extra mile, ability to take ownership of tasks.<\/li>\n<li>Maturity, discretion and good judgment; absolute integrity and discretion in handling confidential information.<\/li>\n<li>Good interpersonal skills to interact effectively with a range of internal and external contacts.<\/li>\n<li>Proven ability to work well in a team-oriented, multi-cultural environment, and function effectively in groups.<\/li>\n<li>High degree of resourcefulness, ability to anticipate and solve problems.<br \/>\nStrong written and verbal communication skills.<\/li>\n<li>Ability\/willingness to work late occasionally, as required.<\/li>\n<li>Fluency in English essential; fluency in French would be an advantage.<\/li>\n<li>Fluency in English essential; fluency in French would be an advantage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Submit your CV and Application online<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Finance Corporation(IFC)\u00a0Sub-Saharan Africa Department, is seeking to recruit a highly motivated and well-organized Program Assistant, who can ensure the effective support to officers\/analysts working in the Ghana Sub-region&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6721,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-3pN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6721"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}