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• Personal assistant and project administrator

Please get in touch if you want to work for Kendra Initiative...

Skills needed:

• Highly motivated.
• Highly intelligent.
• Exceptional problem solver.
• Skype, IM and mobile access during working day essential. High availability and quick response.
• Persistent and able to 'chase' for required information.
• Understanding of technological concepts - such as programming and Internet - but no need to be a programmer.
• Conceptual design and visualisation skills would be a big bonus.
• Good head for numbers and ability to use and manipulate spreadsheets.
• Ability to time keep, track hours and stay within budget.

Tasks:

• Booking travel and accommodation. Gathering travel and accommodation options and presenting to all staff clearly. Then presenting 'best fit' options to director. Then booking directly online. In most cases renting a flat for a few days is preferable than staying in a hotel.
• Able to work with software developers to automate various parts of your job to facilitate more streamlined working. For example - form filling to gather required information.
• Bookkeeping. Updating accounts. Entering receipts and building reports in conjunction with director.
  • Note that there is no office so all materials need to be online. This means heavy use of scanned paperwork and receipts.
• Updating member contact information.
• Part-time work starting around 7 hours per week. Work will be spread over the week generally.

Future:

• Marketing and member liaison.
• An understanding of the media industry is helpful.
• Start part time and moving to full time over next few years dependent on funding from EU and other sources.
• To work on media standards project funded by EU.
• Understanding of metadata and semantic web would be useful.