Internship at ActionAid International , 21 August 2015

ACTIONAID INTERNATIONAL

DIRECTORATE: Institutional Development

Position: Capacity Development Intern

Location: Johannesburg

Salary: R5000 per month

Duration: Fixed Term Contract 4 months

Local salary scales and terms and conditions will apply where applicable 

Purpose of the Role:

To provide support to the administration, co-ordination and project management of the 2016/7 capacity building planning and Feminist leadeship capacity development plan.

Key responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Provide logistics support to capacity building planning processes, includes but not limited to meeting co-ordination, minutes, follow up etc.
• Collect and collate capacity building needs assessment and priorities information at each stage of the planning process.
• Respond to requests for information from IS and Country teams related to capacity development planning.
• Support the development and implementation of the 2016/7 capacity development planning project plan.
• Follow up on information requests from IS and Country teams.
• Research and compile resource materials to support the roll out of the Feminist Leadership capacity development plan.
• Conduct interviews with ActionAid staff on Feminist Leadership and Learning and Development experiences. Transcribe and package the findings for sharing.

Desired Skills & Experience

The successful candidate will have:

• A bachelor’s degree in, business administration or related field from a nationally / internationally recognised university would be an advantage.
• Strong administration experience.
• Basic project management experience
• Experience with research and writing
• Well organized and able to apply skills to large amounts of information.
• Excellent people skills working across different levels and cultures
• Has experience of working to deadlines and the ability to prioritise and manage own workload.
• A proactive approach to duties, continually looking at ways to improve processes.
• Understands and values process and is customer oriented - focuses on internal customer needs at all times.
• Good communication skills.  Fluent spoken and written English. Good interpersonal skills.
• Good administration, planning and project management skills. 

Application Procedures

Applications should be sent with your CV, motivation cover letter by no later than 28th August 2015. You are requested to highlight in the motivation letter how specifically you meet the criteria for this role.  Please clearly indicate which position you are applying for.

Internal Applications send to: applications.jhb@actionaid.org

External Applications send to: IDD.jhb@actionaid.org

Due to high volumes of applications received, we can only correspond with short listed applicants.  Should you not have received feedback on your application within two weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful.  ActionAid International will not consider candidates from recruitment agencies.  We reserve the right to withdraw any of our vacancies at any time.

ActionAid International promotes diversity and welcomes applications from all section of the community especially females.