PA/Receptionist/Secretary/Administrator

JOB PROFILE: 

Providing administrative support, customer service and other services to ensure the smooth running and advancement of an international education consultancy. You will be in direct communication with the director of DegreeAngel UK Ltd. You will need to be well-spoken, hard-working, ambitious and eager to listen and learn. You will often be responsible for specific projects so you need to be able to demonstrate the ability to work on your own under minimal supervision and to lead or instruct others. This vacancy is based in Lagos and mainly an office based role but you will quickly progress into a marketing role so you need to be flexible and free to move around Lagos and perhaps Nigeria.

TYPICAL WORK TASKS:
*General word processing
*Sorting mail and sending mail
*Dealing with telephone calls
*Maintaining library
*Email enquiries
*Creating and maintaining filing systems
*Keeping diaries and taking appointments for staff
*Using a variety I.T. packages to produce correspondence and documents
*Maintaining presentations, spreadsheets and databases
*Booking rooms/venues
*Using content management systems to maintain and update websites and internal databases
*Arranging meetings, taking minutes and keeping notes
*Invoicing
*Creating and following budgets
*Liaising with members of staff in other departments or external contacts
*Ordering and maintaining stationery and equipment supplies
*Using shorthand and audio tapes or copytyping to produce letters
*Organising and storing paperwork, documents and computer-based information.

Other duties may include (but are not limited to):
*Recruiting and training junior staff, and delegating work as required
*Market research
*Travelling with the team or manager to take notes at meetings/events, take dictation and provide general assistance with presentations (across Nigeria and to the UK);
*Arranging travel and accommodation;
*Arranging both in-house and external events.

KEY QUALITIES/SKILLS
Potential candidates will need to show evidence of the following:

    * organisational skills;
    * the ability to plan your own work, work on your own initiative and to deadlines;
    * the ability to manage pressure and conflicting demands, and prioritise tasks;
    * oral and written communication skills;
    * tact and discretion;
    * a pleasant, confident telephone manner;
    * teamwork;
    * reliability and honesty;
    * project management skills.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE
Any qualifications and experience that demonstrate an in depth understanding and ability of the key responsibilities and skills listed (e.g. English, Secretarial, Mass Communication, I.T. , Marketing etc qualifications from a tertiary establishment - university/polytechnic).

DegreeAngel UK Ltd is an equal opportunities employer.

Please send your CV (no more than two pages) and a cover letter explaining why you would like this job and suit the role to:
director@degreeangel.co.uk
or
ellaoku@gmail.com (please don't email both)

Please note we will investigate any claims you make on your CV, honesty is inevitably more important to us than experience as we will train the right candidate.