Facilities Assistant

at mothers2mothers
Location Jinja & Kampala, Uganda
Date Posted March 28, 2020
Category Management
NGO
Job Type Contract
Currency UGX

Description

Job Profile:
The Facilities Assistant will be part of a pool of resourceful persons who will be engaged from time to time on temporary assignments. The position ensures that office premises are maintained at the highest level of hygiene and facilitates staff welfare, in line with m2m administration policies and procedures

Mothers2mothers (m2m) Uganda Profile:

mothers2mothers (m2m) is an Africa-based NGO that unlocks the potential of women to eliminate paediatric AIDS and create healthy families across eight sub-Saharan African countries. m2m trains, employs and helps empower HIV-positive women to work as community healthcare workers in understaffed health centres and underserved communities. Through a peer-to-peer approach, these ‘Mentor Mothers’ deliver a range of health services, advice, and support to women and their families. Started in Cape Town, South Africa in 2001 with an initial focus on preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV, m2m has innovated and built on its strengths and now provides family-centred support for a range of related health and social issues spanning pregnancy, birth, childhood, and adolescence.

Key Performance Areas:
  • Maintain the office premises clean.
  • Ensure office compound is well maintained
  • Facilitate staff wellbeing through the preparation of refreshments for staff
  • Dispatch / deliver mail and other packages to rightful persons as may be assigned
  • Liaise with the Administrative Assistant on courier and general management of the office post office mailbox
  • Work with Administrative Assistant on all logistical, refreshment and other requirements for Office-based meetings
  • Monitor and report problems or issues in relation to the: phone, electricity, building and equipment to the Administrative Assistant
  • Maintain office supplies store as per m2m store management processes and procedures
  • Coordinate and manage the office supplies

Minimum Qualifications:

    • Minimum of an Uganda level of Education (UACE) or related qualification.
    • At least 2 years of relevant working experience
    • Basic filling experience is desirable
    • Excellent interpersonal relations skills, within a multicultural environment
    • Self-starter, able to multi-task and deliver results under pressure
    • Good customer service orientation
    • Unquestionable level of integrity
    • Empathetic
    • Teachable
    • Flexible
    • Strong time manager – willing to be at the office very early
    • Fluent in spoken and written English.  Fluency in either Luganda or Lusoga is an added advantage
    • Good numeracy skills
    • Good planning and organizational skills
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