Office Assistant
The Office Assistant will perform a variety of administrative and clerical tasks. Duties include providing support to managers and employees, assisting in daily office needs and managing the organization’s general administrative activities. This role will be offered on a two(2) year fixed term contract, subject to availability of funding and will be based in Nairobi, Kenya.
- Organizes and manages the meeting rooms prior to any meetings being held.
- Collaborate with the Office Administrator on all the hospitality and catering services in the office e.g. preparing office tea and snacks for the staff and the guests.
- Assist the Senior Administrative Assistant in postage and shipment services.
- Responsible for cleanliness of the office environment, including working hours, desks, washrooms, windows etc.
- Collaborate with the Senior Administrative Assistant to ensure operation of office equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements; escalates issues for repairs; maintaining equipment inventories.
About you
The ideal candidate should have demonstrated office assistant work experience in other organisations in both the private and NGO sector. You should be able carry out various administrative tasks and possess a high sense of responsibility, courtesy, and the ability to work with people from different nationalities and cultural backgrounds.
The position holder should possess basic administrative skills and flexible to work outside the working hours.
You should have a minimum O-Level certificate
The starting gross salary on offer for this role is from KES 780,296 – KES 891,876 per annum, depending on experience.
GAIN has a fair and competitive salary structure that allows for annual progression subject to good performance. In addition, GAIN offers a total of 37 days holiday per year (including annual leave, public holidays and additional office closure days), an attractive pension scheme and competitive insurance cover including health, travel and life assurance. We are committed to the health of our staff, especially in these challenging times, and have developed a programme of wellbeing that includes flexible and hybrid working, additional leave allowances, wellbeing days, mindfulness coaching and access to independent and confidential counselling.
GAIN also has a strong commitment to professional development. We will support you to grow in your career through both formal and informal training, and are committed to providing opportunities through internal recruitment, secondments, and promotion. All of this is delivered in a supportive and collaborative environment.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN) is a Swiss-based foundation launched at the United Nations in 2002 to tackle the human suffering caused by malnutrition. Due to COVID19, conflict in Ukraine and climate change, malnutrition and hunger have worsened significantly since 2019, reversing a decade of progress. There is growing recognition that our food systems need to change if we are to reverse these trends.
GAIN’s Strategy aims to transform food systems to make healthier diets from sustainable food systems accessible to all people and especially those whose are most vulnerable to shocks. By 2027, we aim to improve the access of 1.5 billion people to nutritionally enhanced staple foods, improve the access of 25 million people to healthier diets, and support positive food system change in 10 countries. This is bold and complex, and the only way to achieve this is to work together with partners including governments, businesses, and civil society at the country and global level. These goals, and the ways of achieving them, build on our twenty-year legacy of transforming people’s lives with improved nutrition through concerted action and effective policy change.
We provide a flexible working environment that includes a combination of home and office working opportunities through our global hybrid working policy. This encourages our staff to have a healthy work-life balance and increases staff motivation, enriches employee wellbeing, and improves performance and productivity.
All of our positions are based in one or more of GAIN’s designated offices as stated on our job advertisements. Successful candidates will be based in one of GAIN’s country offices and must have the existing right to live and work within a reasonably commutable distance of the relevant city / cities in which the role is advertised. Please note, that GAIN does not sponsor working visas and relocations.
GAIN reserves the right to withdraw an offer of employment for candidates who are considered to ineligible under the above conditions during or after the recruitment process.
Applicants must have the right to work and be currently based in the advertised country location, to be eligible to apply for this position.
For more detailed information please see the attached job description. To apply, follow the "Apply Now" link.
This advert closes on 22nd May 2024. Early applications are encouraged. GAIN reserves the right to close this advert early should we receive suitable candidates ahead of the closing date.
The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition is committed to equality of opportunity and creating an inclusive environment where diversity is valued. We are keen to reflect the diversity of our society at every level within our organisation and therefore welcome applications from talented and committed people from all backgrounds, representing the diverse societies we operate in.