REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education

Completed secondary education, technical or vocational education.

Work Experience

Minimum three (3) years of relevant experience in administrative and/or secretarial tasks in programme support services.

Skills and Competencies

• Excellent communication and coordination skills.
• Excellent organizational and planning skills.
• Capacity for accuracy and attention to detail in preparation of correspondence and documents.
• Good interpersonal skills, discretion, good sense of judgement and capacity to deal efficiently and tactfully with people of different cultural backgrounds.
• Cooperative behaviour and attitude to work in a team successfully.
• Excellent IT skills with proficiency in the use of MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel. PowerPoint, etc.).
• Ability to work under pressure and flexibility to adjust work schedules and priorities.

Languages

• Excellent knowledge (spoken and written) of English.
• Knowledge of the local language.

DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS

Education

• University degree in a relevant field, including education, social sciences or related fields.

Languages

• Knowledge of other official UNESCO languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish, Russian) would be an asset.