Office Administrator GSMA - Nairobi

The GSMA’s members are truly global and Africa has become one of the most significant markets for mobile consumers when measured by scale and perhaps innovation.  Many of our members are African companies and many others have investments in the continent.

The GSMA seeks to tightly engage with our members and increasingly by locating resources close to the markets within which they operate.  As part of this strategy our aim is to establish a cross functional team of industry experts to work more closely with our African members and to provide a two way link to our major initiatives and projects.

The Office Administrator for the Nairobi office will support the activities of the Nairobi team in relation to any administration.

• Office budget management
• Ensuring all office equipment and facilities are fit-for-purpose and well maintained
• Ensuring appropriate IT support is secured and available for the team
• Ordering stationary, catering and other supplies for the office
• Management of office suppliers
• Generic administrative support for all Nairobi staff, e.g. couriers, post, etc.
• Offering refreshments to visitors
• Travel booking and scheduling
• Processing expenses
• Arranging meetings
• Preparing dossiers or other documentation for meetings or for other requirements.
• Taking minutes as required.
• Invoice processing as required.
• To ensure health and safety arrangements meet statutory requirements
• Other duties as required and requested

Desired Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in an office management role, undertaking duties ranging from administrative tasks to ensuring health and safety policies, budget management, managing office suppliers, booking travel and contract management
• Quick learner
• Ability to work well under stress
• Ability to work well across cultures
• Personable
• Fluent written and verbal in Swahili/English
• Willing to work with overseas offices on different time zones, when required, though this will be kept to a minimum

Excellent Microsoft Office skills

Company Description

GSMA  -

The GSMA represents the interests of the worldwide mobile communications industry. Spanning 219 countries, the GSMA unites nearly 800 of the world's mobile operators, as well as more than 200 companies in the broader mobile ecosystem, including handset makers, software companies, equipment providers, Internet companies, and media and entertainment organizations. The GSMA is focused on innovating, incubating and creating new opportunities for its membership, all with the end goal of driving the growth of the mobile communications industry.

In addition, the GSMA also embraces more than 200 major vendors, partners and suppliers to the industry as Associate Members. These include many of the world’s leading mobile brands, from Ericsson, Nokia, LG and Huawei to major content and internet companies.  Furthermore, we are established as a major inter-industry resource, partnering with those sectors seeking to leverage mobile to reach their strategic goals, for example financial services. Finally, we engage with a wide range of governments, & regulators, NGO’s, for example The World Bank or UN and philanthropic organisations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

The GSMA is governed by a 25 member board, comprising CEO level representatives from many of the world's leading mobile operators, among them AT&T, Bharti Airtel, China Mobile, NTTDoCoMo, Orange, Telefonica, Telecom Italia-TIM, T-Mobile International and the Vodafone Group.

The GSMA's work is focused on three areas:

• Mobile Broadband - Development of a ubiquitous Mobile Broadband infrastructure and the proliferation of devices that will connect the world’s population to the Internet.
• Mobile Lifestyle - Creation of innovative services and experiences that are delivered on the mobile infrastructure and unite the attributes of the web and communications world.
• Mobile Planet - Leverage mobility to help enrich and improve the lives of individuals across the developing world, bringing services to these markets in a socially responsible manner.

Additionally the GSMA is focused on the development of a range of managed services. These will provide an essential role in the development of the mobile value chain; examples include PathFinder, a number translation service or Mobile Media Metrics which will provide operators and advertisers with the key metrics in which to drive their businesses and data services.

Please visit www.gsmworld.com for a wealth of further information.

GSMA – Our Organisation -

Our people include some of the best talent from around the world focusing on developing industry initiatives. We are a truly international organisation with offices in London, Atlanta, Barcelona, Brussels, Hong Kong and Santiago, and through our different offices we embrace the diversity that has allowed the mobile industry to be acknowledged as one of most fast moving and dynamic industries in the world.

Our envied position at the centre of the industry allows us to collaborate with our diverse membership and support them through some of their most complex challenges that they face as an industry.