Job Purpose:
The Administrative Officer will provide secretarial, clerical, and administrative support in an effective and efficient manner.
Main Accountabilities:
· To provide outstanding administration support for the School, ensuring it operates efficiently and effectively.
· To answer the telephone in a friendly, professional, and efficient manner - to troubleshoot and solve problems where appropriate, be proactive in decision making, and support in addressing issues.
· To support and manage the preparation and execution of School events.
· To work under the general direction of the Operations Manager supporting the day-to-day operations of the School.
· To act as an integral part of the School team, to be a welcoming point of contact for parents and children both face to face and remotely, and as such contribute to the overall aims of the School.
· To record and respond to correspondence via the School office.
· To support the office function, including general administration duties as directed by the Operations Manager.
· Maintain security by following procedures and controlling access (monitor logbook, issue visitor badges)
· Maintains supplies inventory by checking stock to determine inventory level; anticipating needed supplies; placing and expediting orders for supplies; verifying receipt of supplies.
· Work collaboratively with various stakeholders to complete key tasks & projects.
· Compliance with all policies and procedures of the school.
Job specification:
· Candidate must be a UAE National with a bachelor’s degree in business administration or management.
·. Minimum of 4 years of professional administrative experience
· Excellent customer service skills
· Ability to effectively communicate information and ideas in written and verbal format and build and maintain relationships.
· Strong computer skills with demonstrated proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc
· Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to work effectively with all levels of staff and management.
It is observed that some people start their job from lower ranks and remain in lower ranks for the long period of time while others start their job in lower ranks and use that low rank as their launching pad and start flying in a very short time. Actually the people who got rapid promotion have some capabilities and one could develop those capabilities in him so that he could get the rapid promotion in the job. Some of these capabilities are mentioned here under:
Continuously improve the qualification: It is the best tool which could come to help you to progress in your rank to have the higher qualifications. No doubt learning with earning is not an easy job. But once you get determined than you could get the task done in desired way.
Keenly observe the field and try to understand the technical tasks: It is observed that those people rise in their rank that could handle the technical aspects of their job in right way. Therefore, it is suggested to keep those secrets of job with you as soon as possible.
Try to show your worth to higher authorities: After getting good qualification and knowing the technical aspects of your job, it is good idea to give a good presentation to higher authorities so that you could get entered your name in the good book of higher authorities. In this way you could get the big boost in the promotion.