Bilingual Administration Assistant - CRAFT-Sustainable Development
Would you like to be part of an exciting new research project to understand how the rainforests of the Congo Basin are changing, and help deliver new knowledge to increase forest protection and improve local livelihoods? Do you have a background in project administration and communication, with strong organisational and communication skills needed to support researchers and co-ordinate key activities? Do you have excellent French language communication skills?
This is a new role which will provide bilingual administrative assistance and help create communications to support the aims and objectives of the Congo Basin Science Initiative (CBSI) and its first major affiliated project, CRAFT-Sustainable Development (Congo Rainforest Alliance for Forest Training for Sustainable Development). CRAFT-Sustainable Development is funded by the UK government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), as part of its Congo Basin Forest Action Programme.
CBSI and CRAFT are co-led by the Ecology and Global Change Cluster in the School of Geography, University of Leeds, and the Congo Basin Water Resources Centre, University of Kinshasa. You will work closely with leading scientists and early career researchers in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, the UK, and elsewhere in the world.
CRAFT will implement part of the CBSI Science and Capacity Building Plan. The project will support 12 leading scientific research groups in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, plus six groups in the UK. This will include 20 new PhD studentships and 12 MSc/MRes studentships, for early career scientists from the region. The project will produce a step-change in both the scientific understanding of the region and the scientific capacity, and then deliver this new knowledge to policy makers and civil society.
As a Bilingual Project Communication and Administrative Assistant, you will assist in the management and administration of CRAFT and wider CBSI project. You will work with a Bilingual Project Manager to ensure that project commitments and deliverables are achieved in a timely manner, including organising meetings, travel and other logistics, and lead on communication of the CRAFT and CBSI project externally, via our website, social media and other channels, in French and English.
The post-holder will assist a CRAFT Project Manager administer the project, including collating the information to report to the funder; organising project meetings, including one large conference each year in central Africa; coordinating logistics for overseas travel for meetings and fieldwork; assisting students to obtain travel documents as part of their studies; liaising with the project partners, including in French; leading on drafting digital content for the project website, databases and social media channels and translating these and other project documents typically from English to French and more occasionally French to English.
This role is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Information on other visa options is available at: https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas
What we offer in return
- 26 days holiday plus approx.16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
- Generous pension scheme options plus life assurance
- Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
- Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
- Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.
And much more!
To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:
Professor Simon Lewis
Email: s.l.lewis@leeds.ac.uk
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