About the Role
This role is crucial as we adapt and scale our model to engage and empower families facing poverty in local planning and action. The position supports all Spark activities in Rwanda, overseeing office administration, planning, coordination, and the delivery of critical tasks to ensure the smooth operation of office activities, while also supporting the leadership of Spark Rwanda. The Administrative and Logistics Officer is responsible for ensuring efficient office operations, managing administrative and logistics procedures, and working closely with the Finance Manager to ensure transparent and fair procurement of goods and services in compliance with Spark’s procurement and financial regulations. The role also involves handling ad hoc requests as they arise.
You will be responsible for ensuring that Spark offices in Rwanda (Kigali, Musanze, and Huye) run efficiently, handling all administrative and operational tasks.
Requirements
Minimum of 4 years of relevant work experience in logistics and office administration.
High proficiency in MS Office software applications and technology for efficiency and information sharing.
Good understanding of competitive procurement practices.
Demonstrated ethics and integrity.
Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills.
Excellent organizational skills with an emphasis on planning and attention to detail.
Strong understanding of and dedication to strict confidentiality.
Specialized training in administration and logistics operations and practices is an added advantage.
Technical Proficiency:
Strong knowledge of MS Office suite and Google Workspace (Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Forms).
Familiarity with collaboration tools (e.g., Slack, Trello, Asana) used for administrative functions.
Communication Skills:
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to communicate effectively in both English and Kinyarwanda, both written and spoken.
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, tailoring messages to the audience.
Flexibility: Ability to adapt to change and work in a dynamic environment.
Deadline: 23rd september 2024
Apply: http:// https://sparkmicrogrants.bamboohr.com/careers/115
About the Company
Spark Microgrants believes in a world where everyone lives with dignity and determines their own positive future. Decades of prescriptive aid have sidelined the poor from the very programs meant to uplift them. We believe in local solutions and catalyzing rural villages facing poverty into action. At the heart of Spark’s model, the Facilitated Collective Action Process (FCAP), are ‘town-hall’ style weekly meetings, in which women, men, young, old, plan together for their community’s future. Each village elects a leadership committee, establishes a village savings account, and launches a project of their choice. Members receive training on financial management, transparency, leadership, village planning, and advocacy.
Spark trains partner organizations and works with governments to scale the FCAP as the model of choice to advance social and economic development, improve lives, and secure lasting change. Spark is now active in 500+ villages in 6 countries, improving the lives of over 560,000 people.
In Rwanda the Spark Microgrants, in collaboration with MINALOC and LODA, is implementing the FCAP in locations of Burera, Gakenke, Gicumbi and Huye districts under a memorandum of Understanding to implement the FCAP in 249 partner communities currently.