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Programme Administration Assistant (AD893)

This post provides administrative, organisational and technical support to the Business and Biodiversity (BBP) Programme at WCMC.

As Programme Administration Assistant, you will use your excellent organisational and administrative skills to support the programme with activities such as organising meetings and supporting travel planning. You will act as communications focal point for the programme, including review, update and publishing of website content, compile internal bulletins and reports from the Programme.

You will be provided with valuable exposure to our numerous projects and will play a key role in supporting project administration by maintaining excellent programme information management records and running internal reports.

You will be highly organised enabling you to effectively manage multiple tasks and requests and preferably have experience in a scientific field, particularly with natural or social sciences focus. You will have an understanding of the essential characteristics of successful partnership-building and will be able to demonstrate the ability to work collaboratively.

The Centre staff are experienced, ambitious and results-orientated, providing an excellent environment to develop and contribute to your own skills. In addition to training and development opportunities, we offer a competitive salary and benefits package, including generous pension contributions.

If you are looking for a rewarding and challenging post where you can impress us with your organisational skills, motivation, and commitment we want to hear from you. Please complete a WCMC application form and send it together with your CV and a short covering letter through the link below by the closing date of 15 May 2015.

Please note that this is not a UN post. 

WCMC is a UK charity, based in Cambridge, which supports the United Nations Environment Programme. We work in collaboration with UNEP, under the banner of UNEP-WCMC. Our mission is to evaluate and highlight the many values of biodiversity and put authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making. Since our establishment in the 1970s, the Centre has been at the forefront of the compilation, management, analysis and dissemination of global biodiversity information, and has an outstanding record of achievement.

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