Senior Program Assistant

6 days ago

Nairobi, Nairobi Area, Kenya Gates Foundation Full time $60,000 - $80,000 per year
The Foundation

The Team

Application Deadline: 7/7/25

Your Role

What You'll Do

Executive and Leadership Support
  • Manage complex calendars across multiple time zones and participants, strategically prioritize and schedule a high volume of appointments, meetings, and travel.
  • Partner with teams across the foundation to ensure the Africa PAC leadership is well-prepared for upcoming meetings (meeting agenda, pre-reads, etc.), including the need to "connect dots" and flag vital information, when appropriate.
  • Prepare agendas, materials, and follow-ups for leadership meetings and decisions

Project and Program Delivery Support
  • Provide project management support to manage team workloads, coordinate projects and provide consistent administrative support across the team.
  • Work on division-specific special projects as needed.
  • Drive execution of pivotal initiatives, ensuring alignment with Africa regional priorities.
  • Track project timelines, deliverables, and proactively address risks or delays.

Meeting and Event Management
  • Coordinate high-level meetings and events involving internal teams and African leaders.
  • Manage team meeting logistics; take and synthesize meeting notes; track and ensure follow-up of action items. Provide communications support to ensure timely responses to inquiries, including answering and prioritizing correspondence for the Africa PAC Director/Deputy Director.
  • Lead the logistics, planning, and coordination for internal and external events, meetings, conferences, retreats, and presentations, which may include coordinating arrangements for participants, handling logistics, and preparing and disseminating materials and in-the-moment problem solving.
  • Maintain meeting cadence and negotiate scheduling with PSTs and other stakeholders.

Communication and Briefing Support
  • Interact and communicate clearly and consistently with grantees and partners in the field.
  • Develop concise, tailored briefing materials for events and leadership engagements.
  • Anticipate information needs and ensure leaders are well-prepared.

Operational Excellence and Planning
  • Provide operational support including but not limited to, maintaining organized files and records, developing a system for tracking, monitoring, and prioritizing tasks and projects, and managing the team SharePoint site to ensure knowledge management across the team.
  • Perform basic financial duties, including expense, budget, invoice reconciliation, and adherence to organizational policies.
  • Maintain oversight of team calendars and ensure seamless coordination of workstreams.

Stakeholder Engagement and Coordination
  • Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to support Africa's strategic presence.
  • Facilitate clear communication and timely resolution of cross-team issues.
  • Partner with team leaders to execute team priorities, establish team processes, and deliver against tight deadlines, while helping develop a strong and cohesive team culture.

Strategy Execution and Problem-Solving
  • Support strategy reviews and planning processes with analysis and coordination.
  • Identify challenges, recommend solutions, and support effective decision-making

Your Experience
  • A bachelor's degree is required; an advanced degree is a plus. Equivalent experience may be considered. Must have a minimum of 5 years' experience supporting senior executives in a complex and fast-paced environment.
  • Experience in an environment requiring diplomacy and good judgment in managing interactions inside and outside an organization, with individuals at all levels, including senior executives and other high-level officials.
  • Sense of initiative, robust organizational and project management skills, ability to work autonomously and cross-functionally while remaining flexible to changing tasks, priorities, and roles and responsibilities.
  • Clear and consistent communication skills, both verbal and written; bias for collaboration and partnership.
  • Results oriented. Works with a sense of purpose and consistency and is able to reliably set and meet deadlines.
  • People oriented, open-mindedness and eager to engage with partners, colleagues and stakeholders with whom principals interact.
  • Knowledge of the wider African business environment and standards is desirable.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
  • Demonstrated proficiency using Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint is required. Experience in learning and mastering new software applications.

Other Attributes
  • Must be able to legally work in the country where this position is located without visa sponsorship.

Hiring Requirements

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