Johannesburg - Gauteng
Administrator
Hybrid in the Johannesburg Area
R120 000pa
Client Background
My client is a youth development NPO, working in Alexandra, focusing on addressing the inequalities and disparities experienced by youth from disadvantaged backgrounds. By helping them build the skills and character needed to transcend their circumstances to succeed in their tertiary education, their careers, financially, and in life in general. The wrap-around support offer includes: career guidance, training, mentoring, coaching, work readiness programmes, psycho-social support, and personal development initiatives. Individuals stay in the programme from the end of grade 11, through university and includes their first working year.
Key Performance Areas
- Event Planning:
- transport and logistics, communications, planning and admin around various events throughout the year, attendance at events
- Administer the application and recruitment process:
- including interview and selection
- Various data capture requirements:
- from capturing applications, to updating existing course database, tracking progress of beneficiaries and student outcomes in databases
- Programme admin
- Communications with beneficiaries:
- various media including phone calls - assisting learners with online university applications, student follow up and support, etc.
- Communications with external stakeholders:
- setting up job shadowing opportunities, events communications, sending out reports, etc
- Social media support:
- Canva creation and interacting on social media sites
- Building rapport and trusting relationship with learners and students
- General Student Support
- Must live in Johannesburg area, able to easily travel to Alex and Sandton with good internet connection at home.
- At least 3 years work experience, in administration/ data handling.
- High proficiency in Excel (PowerPoint and Word). An Excel test will be given.
- Ability to work in other programs, like Google Forms and Canva
- Strong, proven admin and coordination capabilities
- Ability to meet deadlines and to high standards
- Meticulous data capture eye for detail, error checking and problem solving around data
- Professional communication skills
- Be available for weekend functions and to make evening phone calls to school goers
- Be positive about the future of SA, and eager to make a difference in the lives of youth
- Self-starter and takes initiative
- Work well unsupervised, and communicate well with the team, and able to ask for help when needed
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