Responsibilities
Key duties will include:

Accessibility Support

Providing specialist accessibility support as a reasonable accommodation for the Global Advocacy Manager – Social Inclusion (GAM-SI). This includes:

Supporting the GAM-SI to ensure correspondence, meetings and conference calls are effectively managed.

Ensuring that, where requested, relevant documents are shared in accessible formats. Convert information from non-accessible electronic sources into accessible formats as needed.

Liising with internal stakeholders as required, such as managing video recordings for speeches.

Working closely with the Senior Global Advocacy Advisor to ensure the efficient coordination and assignments of Sightsavers related tasks to the relevant internal stakeholders, primarily within PGA.

Assisting with daily administrative tasks, including travel arrangements, managing annual leave and TOIL, logistics with third parties or visa applications and overseeing the expenses of the GAM-SI.  

Travelling and accompany the GAM-SI on some work-related visits.

Administrative Support

Managing the administration of the Directorate, which includes managing the new starter induction process, assisting with travel logistics as needed, setting up and maintaining a team calendar and coordinating the team’s intranet pages.

Organising and managing designated Directorate meetings. Ensure those team meetings are effectively run by coordinating content and capturing outputs and actions. This includes the regular online team meetings as well as the annual in-person Directorate meeting.

Supporting key reporting processes including the monthly advocacy reporting cycle and other relevant reporting activities.

Participating in internal PGA and organisational processes as appropriate. This includes developing an annual budget that aligns with the role’s responsibilities.

Skills and Experience
As the successful candidate you will have experience of providing accessible support and possess experience working in an administrative role.

Further requirements include:

Experience of ensuring accessibility in documents and other communication.

Experience organising travel arrangements (although not making the bookings themselves, as we have a dedicated travel team).

Experience supporting administrative processes, such as facilitating reporting processes.Experience of working across different cultures (desirable, not essential).

Ability to travel internationally (although this is not mandatory).

This is a highly varied and involved role and the above is not an exhaustive list of duties or required professional skills. Please see the Job Description for full details.

Candidates are welcome to demonstrate their ability to match the person specification by expanding on how their experience, training and/or qualifications might have provided them with the knowledge or skills required for the role. Successful candidates will be appointed on merit.