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Teach For Senegal hiring an Executive Assistant.
About Teach For Senegal:
At Teach For Senegal (TFS), we believe that every child in Senegal regardless of their socio-economic background deserves an opportunity for an excellent education. Our mission is to enlist, develop, and mobilize as many of our nation’s future leaders to collectively will work to end educational inequity in our country. We recruit, train and place top university graduates and young professionals in high need primary schools across Senegal to serve as full-time teachers committed to transforming the education outcomes of less-privileged children through significantly improving their achievements and aspirations in a 2-year teaching fellowship.
Through the highly selective, highly rigorous Fellowship, participants (Fellows) develop critical knowledge and first-hand understanding of the education system in Senegal and the challenges it faces. With intensive training and support from TFS, Fellows help transform the lives of their students while enhancing their own leadership skills. As Alumni of the program (and, over time, their students) will become the next generation of Senegalese leaders in education, business, non-profits, medicine, law, government, journalism and other fields. Informed by their experience, they will work from inside and outside the education system to affect the fundamental changes necessary to ensure quality and equitable education for all children.
Job description: The executive assistant will assist the CEO in day to day operations of TFS, engagement with placement schools, students, donors, volunteers, and partners. We are looking for an executive assistant who is creative, a self-starter, adaptable, a problem solver and enjoys working with local communities and children. We are a growing company with a need for an executive assistant with a growth mindset!
Responsibilities
- Preparing financial statements, reports, memos, invoices, letters, and other documents. – Answering phone calls, emails, and requests via our website (in coordination with our social media intern).
- Communicate with volunteers, members, donors, and partners on a specified schedule.
- Handling basic bookkeeping tasks.
- Filing and retrieving records, documents, and reports.
- Researching and conducting data to support the preparation of documents for review and presentation by boards of directors, committees, and executives.
- Helping prepare for meetings.
- Accurately recording minutes from meetings.
- Using various software, including word processing, spreadsheets, databases, and presentation software.
- Reading and analyzing incoming requests, partnerships, and resources. – Performing office duties that include ordering supplies and managing a records database.
- Opening, sorting and distributing incoming faxes, emails, and other correspondence.
- Provide general administrative support.
- Support CEO with onboarding
- Develop and implement team culture, practices, and policies in collaboration with CEO
- Manage internal documents and communication systems
- Special projects as identified in conjunction with specific expertise
Minimum Qualifications:
- Strong belief in TFS’s mission, vision, and core values.
- Fluent in French and one local language ( Wolof, Pulaar, or Sere)
- Speak intermediate English ( B1) and have to desire to want to improve
- Must be a Senegalese national
- Ability to work strategically and collaboratively
- Effective, versatile and action-oriented
- Strategic thinker, data-driven and analytical in approach to solving problems
- Excellent communication skills; strong written and verbal communication; listens well and can easily learn to communicate in someone else’s “written voice”
- Excels at building relationships and networks; influences others to achieve outcomes
- Systems and process-thinker; loves creating order out of chaos
- Strong, demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity & inclusion – Deep passion for mental health, equitable opportunities, success, and transformational change in the Senegalese education system.
Teach For Senegal’s Core Values
- Integrity: We consider integrity a virtue. We commit to uphold the highest standards of ethical expectations in our actions.
- Sense of Possibility: We believe the issue of quality education is an urgent one. We take each and every action with the full realization that our work now means that children in underprivileged communities could have significantly better life opportunities than what is possible today.
- Locally Rooted & Globally Informed: We believe in the possibility of transformational change in Senegal. We have faith that each child can excel, grow and become what s/he wants. Each individual has the capacity to transform oneself and others.
- Continuous Learning: We commit to learn from each other, our partners, and our stakeholders. Through constant learning, we strive to create excellence in outcomes.
- Leadership:We stand up when others give up. We dream and take actions to achieve our dreams. We lead and inspire others to follow. We make the impossible happen.
- Humility and respect; we treat each other with dignity and respect, appreciate each other’s strengths, perceptions and experiences and acknowledge our own limitations. We value our relationship with communities, leaders, schools and parents and constantly engage them to advance our work of providing an excellent education to all children.
- Teamwork; we support and challenge one another, work co-operatively with enthusiasm and appreciation, respect each other’s views and make our work environment fun and enjoyable.
Compensation:
Salary is competitive and depends on prior experience.
How to apply:
Please email your resume and a one-page cover letter to rgueye@teachforsenegal.org. Please indicate the position applied for in the subject line of your email. Your cover letter should include why you are interested in Teach For Senegal and in this position. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. For more information about Teach For Senegal, visit us at www.teachforsenegal.org
Application deadline: 29 Dec 2019.