British Embassy Jobs in Addis Ababa - Ethiopia - Accommodation Assistant Vacancies

British Embassy Jobs in Addis Ababa - Ethiopia - Accommodation Assistant Vacancies

Job Category
  • Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Operations and Corporate Services)
    Job Subcategory
  • Estates

    Job Description
  • Ensuring office and staff accommodation is fully furnished, estates inventory maintained and compliant with OneHMG accommodation standards and health and safety policies.

    Roles and Responsibilities:

    Warehousing and information management

  • Day to day maintenance of warehouse and float stores, keeping accurate inventory list of all estate assets - furniture, float and fittings.
  • Ensure adequate inventory cover for all estate accommodation and office needs. Advise Estate Manager on future needs and purchasing requirements.
  • Maintain correct information on Pyramid for the whole of estate and housing stock.
  • Completing disposal of goods in line with Post’s Disposal of Assets policy.
  • Maintain up to date electronic and hard copy filing systems.
  • Housing stock/Estate furnishing and maintenance
  • Furnish all the properties in accordance with OneHMG accommodation policy, ensuring required standard.
  • Manage individual property inventory lists, including float, furniture and fittings.
  • Ensure furnishings and float items requested by officer are in place on arrival.
  • Ensure the officer signs and returns float list to accommodation section within three days of arrival.
  • Property checks on arrival and departure – ensuring inventory is correct and accounted for, notifying Estate Manager of damaged and missing items and ensuring the relevant officer is charged as appropriate.
  • Ensure all property is maintained to required standard and manage work request with TWG as required and ensure timely completion.

    Resources managed:

  • Warehouse and float stores, rolling inventory.

    Essential qualifications, skills and experience
  • Diploma in business and/or related field.
  • Class 3 Ethiopian Driving license.
  • Customer Service Background in property or logistics.

    Desirable Qualifications, skills and Experience
  • Microsoft Office suite of applications, general computer and internet search engine skills.

    Required Competencies
  • Changing and Improving, Making Effective Decisions, Managing a Quality Service, Delivering at Pace

    Other benefits and conditions of employment
  • Learning and development opportunities:
  • All the FCO Mandatory e-learnings should be completed.
  • The individual should also complete Requisitioning & Receiving in Prism e-learning.
  • There are also opportunities for learning and development Global Learning Opportunities (GLO) Network.

    Internal system courses and training:

  • Prism
  • Pyramid

    Additional information
  • Annual Leave and Public Holidays:

    Locally engaged staff of all grades will be entitled to paid annual leave as follows:

  • Up to 2 years 22 days
  • After 2 years services 25 days
  • After 5 years services 30 days
  • In addition to annual leave, the British Embassy observes up to a maximum number of 14 Ethiopian, British and Religious public holidays each year.
  • A list of such Embassy holidays will be published each year.
  • Office Staff required to work on these holidays will be granted time off in lieu or overtime where circumstances permit.
  • Please complete the application form in full as the information provided is used during screening.
  • Please check your application carefully before you submit, as no changes can be made once submitted.
  • The British Embassy will never request any payment or fees to apply for a position.
  • Employees recruited locally by the British Embassy in Addis Ababa are subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local employment law in Ethiopia.
  • All candidates must be legally able to work and reside in the country of the vacancy with the correct visa/work permit status or demonstrate eligibility to obtain the relevant permit.

    The responsibility lies on the successful candidate to;

  • Obtain the relevant permit
  • Pay the fees for the permit
  • Make arrangements to relocate
  • Meet the costs to relocation
  • Employees who are not eligible to pay local income tax: e.g. certain third-country nationals and spouses/partners of UK diplomats will have their salaries abated by an equivalent amount.
  • Information about the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Competency Framework can be found on this link:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-competency-framework Please note: Job grade AA=A1, AO=A2, EO=B3, HEO=C4, SEO=C5
  • Reference checking and security clearances will be conducted on successful candidates.
  • Please log into your profile on the application system on a regular basis to review the status of your application

    How to Apply
  • Interested and qualified candidates should apply online by 12th April 2019
  • For more information and job application details, see; British Embassy Jobs in Addis Ababa - Ethiopia - Accommodation Assistant Vacancies

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