United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: Programme Support Officer
Country: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Closing date: 02 Oct 2013
This is an exciting opportunity to play a part in WaterAid’s work of providing sustainable access to safe water and sanitation in developing countries across the world. If you are passionate about making a difference and have excellent organisational and administrative skills we want to hear from you.
The job is based within WaterAid’s Programme Support Unit (PSU) in London from where we provide technical support to our country programmes. We are looking for a Programme Support Officer who can help drive efficiency through a variety of effective administrative support tasks which will ultimately enable us to serve more of the world’s poorest people.
You will have experience in undertaking project based administrative support, such as report writing, editing documents and budget tracking. Strong communication and analytical writing skills will be invaluable to support the activities undertaken by the research, learning and documentation team in PSU. Your responsibilities will require a basic knowledge of water, sanitation and hygiene programming. International field experience and additional language skills would be advantageous for the job.
We are looking for candidates who are enthusiastic, committed and able to move efficiently between administrative tasks whilst taking on some technical activities when required.
Your covering letter must focus on how you meet the first six highlighted bullet points of the essential criteria in the person specification. However, if you are invited to an interview, all elements of the person specification will be covered.
WaterAid is committed to offering a competitive benefits package. Working with us, you will gain from a wide range of employee benefits such as an exceptional pension fund, medical cash plans, an employee assistance programme, generous annual leave and Save as you Learn schemes, as well as fitness and lifestyle programmes.
How to apply:
Please visit our website to apply: www.wateraid.org/ukjobs
