About this job

Sapienza Consulting is recruiting an Administrative Assistant to support the HIF Directorate at ESA-ECSAT on a part-time basis for 20 hours per week.

Responsibilities

• Day-to-day support to Unit personnel regarding business travel arrangements, leave management, coordination of training.
• Dealing with incoming telephone calls and information requests.
• Analysing incoming correspondence and documentation and managing distribution of outgoing correspondence and documentation.
• Provision of various logistic support to the Unit.
• Arrivals (office, phone, computer, security, access to databases, information systems) and departures (deregistration, etc.) of Unit personnel.
• Ordering of office supplies and maintenance of stationary.
• Room and resources bookings for meetings and/or events falling under the responsibility of the Unit.
• Administration and handling of shipment of goods and express mail.
• Tasks related to documentation management, distribution/registration of mail and documents.
• Organization of agenda and of meetings.
• Maintaining documents libraries for the Unit, including maintenance of change log, distribution lists, issue information notes to concerned users.
• Maintaining and following up actions lists for the Unit and taken minutes of coordination meetings for the Unit.
• Participation to organisation of events (e.g. workshops, conferences) as required.

In addition to the above that correspond to standard activities in support to an organisational unit, the work package may also cover the following tasks:

• Support to the Project Review Process.
• Support to visitor service: including access control, preparing visa applications, distribution of information material.
• ESA site administration: including periodical update (e.g. daily) of site schedule, updating and distribution of the site telephone list.
• Participation to the preparation and the publication of internal and external documents, including editing and proofreading.
• Data collection, extraction from various Corporate applications (e.g. SAP, PRISMA) and from various internal sources and data consistency checking and coherence analysis.

Specific for ECSAT:

• Pro-actively supporting the ECSAT Site Manager in following up of actions, and interfacing with nominated external partners
• Minute writing support for meetings called by ECSAT Site Manager, according to needs
• Ad-hoc support to the ECSAT Site Manager in restructuring the document set-up for the unit, or other secretarial tasks as and when needed

Profile

• Completed secondary education and professional training in administration and/or clerical support
• At least 2 years of relevant work experience
• Highly proficient with modern electronics office automation tools, in particular the Microsoft Office suite and electronic mailing (preferably Lotus Notes)
• Familiarity with ESA working environment in a similar position is a distinct advantage
• Fluent in English, additional knowledge of another ESA member state language is desirable.
• Candidates must be eligible to work in the EU.