Team Administrator (Programmes)
Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) · Johannesburg, Gauteng
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- Provide end-to-end administrative support, consolidate reports and maintain the records management system for the unit.
Key Responsibilities KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS
General Administration
Provide administrative support to the unit
- Manage day-to-day administrative activities
- Manage diaries and arrange meetings
- Organise refreshments when required for meetings
- Make logistics arrangements for internal and external engagements
- Take minutes, distribute for inputs and follow up on actions required
- Perform administrative duties including typing and editing of reports, confidential correspondence and general documentation, filling, faxing, photocopying, and administrative work.
- Perform secretariat functions for the internal committees that are part of the unit structures, ensuring compliance with governance prescripts.
- Draft, format, and proofread correspondence, reports, presentations, and other documents.
- Coordinate and assist in the preparation of cluster/unit submissions to the board, business review, management committees, and ad-hoc resolutions from division-specific committees secretariat.
- Administer the local and international travelling arrangements and the processing of claims for the units.
- Attend to general queries made to the Head and team members, answer and screen incoming calls.
- Support ongoing team projects by updating trackers, following up on deadlines, and organising documentation.
- Administer procurement processes and facilitate the submission and processing of invoices and claims.
- Coordinate, collate and assist in the preparation of reports and presentations for unit submissions.
- Coordinate internal audit and monitoring activities, including periodic review of the division and units.
- Manage office supplies, stationery, and equipment, ensuring stock availability.
- Collaborate with the events unit to coordinate plans for external stakeholders' events.
- Assist with processing invoices, purchase orders, travel requests, and claims.
Reporting and Database Administration
- Assist in the coordination/preparation and alignment of unit/s balanced scorecard BSC, and track and monitor plans to provide reports to the team.
- Coordinate the preparation of the divisional/unit budgets and monitor the spending together with the budget owner.
- Undertake project management tasks and provide project administration support on allocated projects.
- Prepare and present reports concerning activities, expenses, budgets and other items affecting the division/unit.
- Develop and maintain an advanced record-keeping manual/electronic and filing system to ensure an updated central repository and database for unit documents.
- Coordinate service providers' database administration to ensure a central repository of information on service providers.
- Maintain updated contact lists, distribution lists, and team databases.
- Undertake other administrative duties as assigned, from time to time.
Key measurements of outputs
- Timeous and efficient team administration support.
- Quality of presentations and reports.
- Management of budget, including operational expenses.
- Documents generated accurately.
- Minimal errors with regard to administration.
- Effective record-keeping management and retrieval systems.
Expertise & Technical Competencies QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Office Administration, Project Management or Business Administration.
Desirable Requirements
- Postgraduate Degree in Business Administration, Monitoring & Evaluation or Project Management.
Experience
Minimum Experience
- A minimum of 5 years' experience in providing administrative support to Teams.
- Experience in communicating verbal and written and drafting reports and presentations for Executives and Board level.
- Experience in coordinating, consolidating and tracking cross-functional projects and stakeholder engagements.
- High proficiency with Microsoft Office MS-Word, MS Excel at an advanced level of proficiency, MS PowerPoint, MS Outlook.
- Advanced SAP system experience.
Desirable Experience
- Experience in the banking and/or financial services sector.
- Some experience in Climate and Environmental space