Uniserv Education aims to assist students with Careers Guidance, University Selection, University Admissions (Direct, postgraduate and UCAS applications) and UK Student Visas. We offer students expert advice on University Admissions and especially student visa guidance.
We represent universities with a good geographical spread and Program choice in the UK. We have well trained staff that provide impartial career counseling to students who require career guidance. Our Program Counselors are graduates from various universities and are undergoing a training program from the universities we represent. We organize and participate in exhibitions and education fairs in major East African cities, in consultation with the institutions we represent, to enable us to promote them as effectively as possible.
We now have 6 offices in major cities over East Africa: Nairobi and Mombasa in Kenya, Dar-Es-Salaam (Tanzania), Kampala (Uganda) and Kigali (Rwanda). We also have offices in London and intend so have three new offices set up by the end of the current calendar year.
Job Description - Office Manager
Salary scale: USD 1,000 to USD 3,000 per month gross
Experience Level:
- Relevant educational background with at least 2 years of relevant experience in a similar position.
- Computer literate
- Must show good attention to detail, judgment and hands on approach
Region: Multiple locations, work permit to be shouldered by the company
Role:
- Providing professional education advice and careers counselling service to students
- Representing the UK Higher Education Division at key promotional events e.g. exhibitions.
- Ensuring customer satisfaction and smooth functioning of the office activities
- Accurate reporting of the day-to-day activities to the Head Office
- Ensuring all the marketing activities are carried out as planned in liaison with marketing department
- Growing student recruitment for representing Universities by means of devising and implementing successful recruitment and marketing campaigns in the region
- Ensuring efficient usage of office resources
- Gaining and providing in-depth market knowledge on the global higher education market
- Exploring new areas and ways to achieve the set targets for self and all the staff of the particular office.
- Ensuring your and the office’s targets are met
- Supervising the work progress of the staff
- Petty cash
- Bank balances, reconciliation devising and implementing office budgets
- using a range of office software, including email, spreadsheets and databases; managing filing systems; depending on the organisation, duties of the role may extend to the management of social media;
- developing and implementing new administrative systems, such as record management; recording office expenditure and managing the budget;
- organising the office layout and maintaining supplies of stationery and equipment;
- maintaining the condition of the office and arranging for necessary repairs;
- attending and chairing staff meetings with recorded minutes sent to head office
- overseeing the recruitment of new staff, including training and induction;
- ensuring adequate staff levels to cover for absences and peaks in workload, sometimes by using temping agencies;
- carrying out staff appraisals, managing performance and disciplining staff;
- delegating work to staff and managing their workload and output;
- writing reports for senior management and delivering presentations;
Reporting to the
a) Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
b) Operations Manager
c) Financial Controller
d) Marketing Manager
b) Operations Manager
c) Financial Controller
d) Marketing Manager
Closing Date: 31st December 2013, CVs to be sent to Rahim (rahim@uniserveducation.com)