We’re hiring: Junior Administration & Communications Executive

We’re hiring: Junior Administration & Communications Executive

The Noakes Foundation seeks to appoint a junior Administration & Communications Executive. This role is to support the overall administration of the foundation and work closely with some of the senior team members.

Role responsibilities include:

• Support general administration of the business
• Responding to social media and email enquiries
• Supporting ad hoc website updates
• Manage diaries, travel and speaking engagements for the senior team
• Research funding and fundraising opportunities for the Foundation and Eat Better South Africa
• Support events planning, accounting, and administration
• Attend key team and other meetings and take and distribute minutes and actions to the team involved
• Manage books, product samples and general stock take and control of foundation material and assets
• Support with the general smooth running of the foundation including the communications with our interns and other staff
• Support staff with administrative tasks
• Actively seeking fundraising opportunities for the foundation and generating fund raising leads, events or other creative ideas
• Processing applications for online courses: establish eligibility, verify eligibility, send info pack and invoice, follow up
• Enrolling students, troubleshooting issues with the course
• Course development & customer support
• Sales & marketing support – campaign planning and execution, conferences, advertisements etc

Required attributes:

• Two or more years experience as a PA or communications Exec in a busy office
• Skillfully anticipate and proactively provide top class administrative and HR support where needed
• Strong relational and communication skills (phone and email)
• Good command of English and possibly one other language
• Ability to see the big picture and understand/talk about nutrition, health and the medical sector
• A willingness to learn about nutrition and low carb eating as well as attendance at an online training
• Discretion and confidentiality
• Articulate, professional and courteous at all times
• Proficient in all MS word packages including PowerPoint and basic excel
• Good writing and copy editing skills

Role start date: 1 May 2019

Salary: Negotiable

Place of work: Cape Town – Office and home-based 

Terms: One year contract subject to a three month trial period

To apply, please submit a cover letter and CV to jana@thenoakesfoundation.org