The Sustainability Institute SI Available Job Opening – Apply Now!

The Sustainability Institute SI is a nonprofit, public benefit organisation striving to improve the lives of marginalised children and youth in the surrounding areas; transform education from the level of ECD all the way through to post graduate level; engage in research, teaching and enabling of a more socially just, sustainable generative way for humanity to interact with the natural world.

Job Title: Office Administrator 
Job Location: Stellenbosch.

Responsibilities:

• General administrative assistance across all adult learning programmes as requested, including the following:
• Student related administration, including contracts, file management and analysis of student related data
• Handle short course enquiries and administrative details in preparation for short courses
• Prepare contracts for consultants, ensuring consultants adhere to systems and processes, filling in Payment Request Forms for consulting projects, assisting with any other admin pertaining to consulting projects
• Assist with organising speaker events and student workshops
• Manage the alumni platform and collating alumni data
• Coordinate student related activities and events
• Handle of all hospitality bookings for events, tours, workshops and courses
• Handle of correspondence, quotations and invoicing of all bookings
• Manage the venues booking matrix
• Follow up on payment for hospitality bookings
• Ensure bookings are properly communicated and executed by the hospitality team

Requirements:

• A post-grade 12 qualification and five years of accounting/administrative experience
• Bookkeeping and Excel abilities essential as well as some knowledge of Pastel Accounting (in particular, quotes, invoicing and debtors)
• Ability to deal with email correspondence promptly and to communicate professionally both verbally and in writing
• Experience in working with Google Drive and Google Sheets
• Good planning and organisational skills
• Ability to work independently and within a team
• Interpersonal skills that contribute to a people-centred working environment
• It would be beneficial if the candidate has a good understanding of sustainability, is values aligned and also has keen interest in education in general

To apply

Submit your CV with a covering letter to Litha Magida at [email protected]

Application Deadline: Monday, 1 April, 2019