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Apply by: 20 November 2026

Job description

Management of Group Executive Office

• Manage and work closely with the GE performing day to day administrative tasks.
• Plan and schedule critical engagements for the executive, aligning these to the planning and budget cycle.
• Coordinate speaking events and engagements of the GE.
• Ensure that the GEs calendar/diary is up to date and efficiently managed as changes occur, or new meetings are scheduled.
• Attend to phone calls and messages either through first line response or forwarding as appropriate.
• Review and summarize miscellaneous documents, prepare and outgoing correspondence for the GE.
• Provision of day-to-day service (internal and external) in the Office of the GE.
• Maintain absolute confidentiality in respect of all tasks and duties performed.
• Undertake ad hoc tasks assigned by Executive Management.

Communication and Protocol

• Reviewing Internal and External Communications: drafting speeches or presentations for the GE.
• Receive guests to the GE’s office including public office and parliament officials including business partners.
• Develop and deliver user-friendly orderly and logical filing system that can be easily accessed when absent.
• Assist the GE in consolidating several management documents for distribution and co-ordinate feedback.
• Manage the flow of documents into and out of the GE’s office and ensure that every document can be accounted for.
• Execute complex assignments with maximum efficiency and confidentiality.

Financial Administration and Reporting

• Manage the procurement of goods and services and execute services within budget.
• Enter Purchase Requisitions (PR) on SAP.
• Monitor progress to ensure PR is translated into a PO timeously.
• Coordinates collection and preparation of operating reports, such as expenditures and statistical records.
• Ensure that orders and invoices are done.
• Prepare all expense reports for Executive.
• Coordinate and distribute monthly and quarterly reports to Executive.

Meetings and travel arrangements

• Arrange bookings, venues, refreshments, equipment (laptop, projector etc.) for the GE’s Office.
• Take minutes of EXCO or Mancom.
• Arrange travel and related requirements for the GE.

Minimum requirements

EXPERIENCE:

• Five (5) years relevant experience or more
• SAP, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS-Office
• Strong organization skills
• Business Acumen
• Resourcefulness
• Adaptability
• Interpersonal skills
• Multitasking
•  Ability to cope in a stressful and demanding environment

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Office Administration or equivalent.
• Ideal: Honour’s Degree in Office Administration or equivalent.

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES:

• Business writing skills
• Maintain strict confidentiality and exercise discretion
• Possess strong writing, and communication skills
• Be attentive and detail oriented
• Able to work efficiently within time constraints and deadlines
• Computer literate
• Office Administration

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Apply by: 30 November 2026

Job description

Leadedership

• Formulates R&D questions within a single field of S&T He/she is aware of trends in the relevant field, and is able to formulate ideas relating to technical projects, frame and develop research questions, design experiments, identify problems, and evaluate and implement solutions.
• Play a leading role in execution of work as a chief investigator of a project, within the division/group.

Innovation (subject to career ladder implementation)

• Operational: Establish specifications, improve workflows, and introduce operating procedures – project level.

Financial sustainability

• Prepare proposals under direct/limited supervision, including Open Call proposals.

Execution, People and Planning

• Perform routine scientific and engineering research using standard methods, procedures and equipment. Act as Principal investigators on such projects.
• Perform complex scientific and engineering research under supervision.
• Design, operate and oversee discipline specific experimental work and ensure that procedures are complied with, and quality control and continual improvement are applied.
• Collect and interpret data at a quantitative and qualitative level using discipline specific standard methodologies and procedures. Including the preparation of analytical and descriptive narratives.  Ensure that the interpretation is based on sound scientific/ engineering theory.
• Plan and manage projects to ensure efficient use of time, equipment and facilities, including coordinating with others.

Governance and Risk Management

• Ensure proper care in the use and maintenance of equipment and supplies, promote continual improvement in the workplace, adhere to and enforce all SHEQ requirements.
• Ensure that the project team understands and adheres to all SHEQ requirements.
• As Principal Investigator responsible for the assessment and management of all risks at a project level.
• May be responsible for equipment / facilities.

Relationship Management and Reporting

• Present at local conferences and publish conference papers, journal papers.

Interactions

•  Staff in own division, across other divisions to head level; suppliers and vendors (engineers), clients/collaborators at technical level.

Minimum requirements

EXPERIENCE:

• 2- years vocational experience following first graduation (BSc Hon/BEng).

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Be able to work in a team
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Attention to detail, ability to follow up and take initiative
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to cope in a stressful and demanding environment
• Be able to work under pressure.

QUALIFICATIONS:

•  Minimum: B. Sc. Hons or 4-year Engineering degree.
•  Ideal: MSc, MEng (NB: other lower degrees, must attain the minimum requirement to stay in this position)

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES:

• Project management.
• Competent in the chemical analysis of metallurgical samples or inorganic samples. 
• Should have good verbal communication.
• Must have good work ethics to maintain credibility of work.