Position Title: Education Scholarship & Admin Officer
Reports To: ICM/Founder
Location: Hoi An, Vietnam
Status: Full time
Working Hours: 8am to 5pm Monday to Friday with one hour for lunch
8.30am to 5.30pm Saturday with one hour for lunch
Start Date: As soon as possible
Qualifications:
- Minimum: College Degree (English, Economics preference given for International study experience/Accounting);
- Professional work experience in a similar position;
- Excellent organizational skills. Excellent communication with national and international programme’s partners.
- Excellent attention to detail. Works well under pressure.
- Ability to meet deadlines with 100% accuracy.
- Good working knowledge of modern telecommunication systems (including e-mail, fax and internet, related software) and relevant computer applications (e.g. MS Office);
- Excellent proficiency in written and spoken English and Vietnamese;
- Dynamic and self-motivated personality with a strong desire to work in the NGO field, willingness to learn and develop.
Duties:
Education Scholarship:
- Updating student and sponsor information
- Ensuring that letters and photos from students are sent to sponsors twice a year in a timely manner
- Translating letters into English and sending to a foreigner for editing
- Finding potential educational scholarship recipients to be interviewed
- Meeting with principals when required and to act as interpreter
- Administering the payment of school and other student fees (every month).
- Ensuring that students continue to meet our financial and academic criteria
- Keeping accurate records of all scholarship information
- Sourcing funding for university scholarship students from companies within Vietnam
- Sourcing funding for scholarship students
- Mentoring and guidance of scholarship students
Workshop:
- Assist the Workshop Manager in overseeing the staff and makers, and dealing with any problems or concerns
- Customer service
Administration and General:
- Ad hoc assistance for Founder and Assistant In Country Manager
- Purchase equipment and deal with tradesman
- Organize and upkeep important files for Lifestart Foundation
- Advise customers on local customs and culture
- Research the purchase of special equipment and materials in Vietnam
- Any other tasks assigned to you by the Founder, the In Country Manager or Assistant In Country Manager
Salary:
- Very competitive salaries.
Application Information:
- Interested candidates should send cover letter and curriculum vitae in English to: [email protected] and [email protected] [1]
- Application closing date: November 10, 2014
- Only those selected for interviews will be contacted.