job description - Technical Excellence Coordinator
- The Technical Excellence Coordinator provides administrative, systems and project support to a department of approximately 30 public health professionals. This position assists with a variety of administrative tasks and processes, such as organizing department intranet sites; supporting use of software systems; and scheduling and supporting meetings and workshops, both in person and through virtual platforms.
- The coordinator also assists with budget development, expense tracking, invoice processing and vendor/consultant contract setup. The coordinator proactively identifies improvements to processes and systems that support effectiveness and efficiency of the department.
- The coordinator supports the Senior Program Manager with department-level coordination and communication, including creation of monthly newsletters. Provided support should strengthen the department, teams and individuals’ capacity to focus on organizational objectives.
Primary Responsibilities
- Maintains and updates databases; organizes online files and maintains intranet sites; supports use of software systems, liaises with other departments to problem solve and address system issues
- Coordinates logistics for domestic and international meetings and conferences, including vendor selection, contract set-up, coordination of participant travel, tracking expenses against budgets and flagging budget issues with project manager
- Coordinates webinars and other virtual meetings, including keeping a department webinar schedule, organizing interpretation, and supporting the use of virtual conferencing platforms.
- Supports internal meetings by scheduling, note-taking, room set-up, preparing meeting materials, providing A/V support, and running virtual meeting software
- Assists with adherence to organizational deadlines, policies and procedures, such as procurement
- Submits requisitions and payment requests and tracks vendor payments
- Tracks various email accounts and routes messages to appropriate parties
- Provides project assistance, including creating and monitoring project schedules, developing and formatting materials and coordinating translations as needed, monitors risks/issues and supports problem-solving; tracks level of effort and expenses against budgets, creates and updates expense tracking spreadsheets
- Coordinates and supports completion and internal approval of donor proposals and reports
- Administrative duties such as shipping, travel arrangements, data entry, formatting references, etc.
Requirements
Minimum:
- B.A, B.Sc or other Baccalaureate / Undergraduate Degree
- 2 years of administrative experience; 1 year of project management experience including budget support
- Ability to travel 10%
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (especially Excel, PowerPoint, and Word)
- Event planning experience
- Experience with conferencing/virtual meeting platforms
- Strong interpersonal and communications skills, verbal and written
- High attention to detail and ability to prioritize multiple tasks/projects
- Readily learns new software systems and technologies
- Excellent written and spoken English language skills
- Spanish and/or Portuguese proficiency.
Preferred Skills:
- Working knowledge of Microsoft SharePoint
- Non-profit experience, especially experience with donor proposals/reports and budget tracking
- Working knowledge of women’s sexual and reproductive health and rights
- International event planning experience
- French proficiency.
Competencies:
- “I’ve got this” Attitude - You can juggle multiple competing deadlines without getting flustered.
- Lean - You bring awareness and commitment to doing work effectively and efficiently. We want people who will see a way to streamline or improve a process and who won’t hesitate to share their ideas in making it happen.
- Communication & Collaboration - Actively listens and communicates -connects easily with her/his team and gains their trust and respect. Works well across all organizational teams. Demonstrates clear and concise information and idea-sharing
- Flexibility - You are able to shift gears quickly as priorities shift.
- Detail-oriented - You have a strong attention to detail and maintain a high quality in your work.
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