{"id":5516,"date":"2011-09-20T04:42:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T04:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/?p=5516"},"modified":"2013-12-26T16:12:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T16:12:48","slug":"fao-ghana-careers-programme-assistant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/fao-ghana-careers-programme-assistant.html","title":{"rendered":"FAO Ghana Careers: Programme Assistant"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>GENERAL SERVICE VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT NO: GS-01\/11-RAF<br \/>\n<\/em><strong>Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Accra, Ghana<br \/>\n<strong>Grade:<\/strong>\u00a0G-5<br \/>\n<strong>Organizational Unit:<\/strong>\u00a0FAO Sub-Regional Office for West Africa (SFW)<br \/>\n<strong>Duration:<\/strong>\u00a01 year (Renewable)<br \/>\n<strong>Post Number:<\/strong>\u00a01074113<br \/>\n<strong>CCOG\u00a0Code:<\/strong>\u00a02102<\/p>\n<p><strong>Duties and Responsibilities:<br \/>\n<\/strong>Under the general supervision of the FAO Sub-regional Co-ordinator for West Africa and the direct supervision of one or more officers as assigned, the incumbent provides responsible secretarial\u00a0 and programme support duties as follows.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Collects, processes and summarises data and other relevant background information on the countries and on the sub-region as a whole for briefing and review by the requester and use of SFW;<\/li>\n<li>Maintains, logs, files and databases, and updates records in prescribed format for subsequent use covering the different technical and administrative areas relevant for SFW (focal point for the unit&#8217;s secretarial)<\/li>\n<li>Assists in the preparation\/consolidation of the unit&#8217;s travel plan, work plan and budget including periodic budgetary reports and income processing;<\/li>\n<li>Assists in the logistics of the professional officers&#8217; missions, the preparation, approval and monitoring of Letters of Agreement, and the initiation and follow-up on expert\/consultant contracts<\/li>\n<li>Organizes meetings\/workshops held within the sub-region (i.e. preparation of budgets, co-ordinating travel and accommodation of participants, paying DSA, compilation of related presentations; recruitment of appropriate personnel and organization of secretariat; and other related logistics)<\/li>\n<li>Translates correspondence and documents from French to English and vice-versa;<\/li>\n<li>Participates in internal meetings to provide information on administrative matters, take notes and prepare respective minutes;<\/li>\n<li>Supervises and co-ordinates the work of the other Secretary\/Programme Clerks (G4) ensuring that all the Unit offices are properly assisted;<\/li>\n<li>Performs other duties as required<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Required Skills or Experience\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Applications are normally not considered from candidates who do not possess ALL of the Essential Qualifications:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Senior Secondary School Education including or supplemented by secretarial\/clerical training<\/li>\n<li>Five years of office experience, including secretarial and clerical\/programme work and experience in record keeping and processing information and at least 1 year at G-4 level<\/li>\n<li>Language: Working Knowledge (level C) of English and French<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The incumbent must possess typing skills and short hand in languages required in line with the organization&#8217;s requirement, computer literacy and ability to use word processing, excel and other office technology equipment; ability to use the organization;s computerised financial and administrative systems; attention to detail and the ability to carry out complex assignments; initiative, courtesy and ability to work harmoniously with people of different national and cultural backgrounds<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Desirable Qualifications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work experience: in an International organisation and preparing sub-regional\/regional meetings<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>How To Apply<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Applications: Should be submitted to the:<\/p>\n<div>\n<strong>Snr. Administrative Officer<br \/>\nAdministrative Support Unit<br \/>\nFAO, Regional Office for Africa<br \/>\nP. O. Box 1628<br \/>\nAccra<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<strong>Staff members:<\/strong>\u00a0Complete form ADM75<br \/>\n<strong>Other entitled candidates:\u00a0<\/strong>Complete FAO Personal History Form available on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/\">www.fao.org<\/a>\u00a0(<strong>type&#8221;vacancies&#8221; and CLICK search then current vacancies to select the Personal History Form<\/strong>)<\/div>\n<div>Closing Date:<\/div>\n<p>22 Sep, 2011<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENERAL SERVICE VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT NO: GS-01\/11-RAF Location:\u00a0Accra, Ghana Grade:\u00a0G-5 Organizational Unit:\u00a0FAO Sub-Regional Office for West Africa (SFW) Duration:\u00a01 year (Renewable) Post Number:\u00a01074113 CCOG\u00a0Code:\u00a02102 Duties and Responsibilities: Under the general supervision&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6715,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[38,3,29],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2nO32-1qY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516"}],"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\/6715"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joblistghana.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}