Position Overview 

The Administration Officer serves as the backbone of operational efficiency, orchestrating seamless support across four pillars: Administrative & Logistics Support, Front Desk & Office Management, Hotel Bookings for Staff, and Asset Oversight. By ensuring staff and guest needs are met, maintaining a secure and well-functioning office environment, coordinating travel and accommodation, and safeguarding organizational property, the Administration Officer transforms routine operations into a reliable framework that empowers teams, enhances productivity, and sustains organizational excellence

What You’ll Do🌟 

Administrative and Logistics support to staff and guests (30%)

• Prepare monthly airtime, Closed User Groups(CUG), and data schedules in a timely and accurate manner.
• Ensure availability and functionality of work tools (phones, laptops, MiFi devices, etc.) for all staff.
• Coordinate with service providers and the IT team to maintain reliable office fibre internet connectivity.
• Manage meal delivery services (breakfast and lunch), ensuring accuracy of orders and addressing staff feedback on vendor performance.
• Respond promptly to issues raised through the Admin Help Desk, providing timely resolutions.
• Arrange transportation, hotel bookings, and meal provision for international guests, update guest trackers, and ensure a pleasant visitor experience.
• Support international travel for local staff, including booking flights, airport transfers, travel insurance, updating the international travel tracker, and ensuring a smooth travel experience.
• Book accommodation for local staff traveling within the country, ensuring adherence to defined SOPs.
• Plan and manage logistics for office-based events (e.g., retreats), including booking meeting rooms, coordinating meal delivery, and arranging necessary materials such as stationery, projectors, and speakers.

Front Desk and General Office Management (30%)

• Welcome and attend to guests at the reception desk, ensuring timely assistance and a positive overall experience.
• Maintain cleanliness and presentation of the front office area, including the lounge, throughout the day.
• Monitor office access and register visitors to uphold safety, security, and protection of office property.
• Report suspicious activity or individuals to safeguard staff and premises.
• Manage office communications, including calls on the landline, mail delivery, and guest messages to staff.
• In charge of  opening and closing office premises and ensuring individual offices are well locked at the close of day.
• Ensure safety of premises by enforcing security protocols, maintaining security lighting, and reporting irregularities or violations promptly.
• Oversee security operations by monitoring guard transitions, conducting spot checks, and coordinating with supervisors when necessary.
• Enforce security protocols for office equipment and ensure staff compliance.
• Supervise office cleaners to ensure a clean, safe, and secure working environment.
• Manage general office facilities, including lease administration, repairs, and overall infrastructure support.
• Organize and allocate office space to optimize functionality and efficiency.
• Ensure indoor lights, ACs and fans are switched off at the close of each day and security lights are on for the night
• Monitor usage of utilities such as electricity and water and investigate any abnormal increments in monthly bills to identify root causes, verify billing accuracy, prevent wastage, and implement cost‑control measures.
• Ensure constant supply of drinking water at the office by coordinating delivery with the vendor as per the established schedule
• Ensure that water dispensers, ACs, Solar Equipment, Fire -Extinguishers and other office equipment are serviced in a timely manner
• Manage compound maintenance (mowing, watering of outdoor plants, weeding and tree trimming) as per established schedule

Office Equipment and Asset Management (20%)

• Review and propose improvements to equipment management policies and train staff to ensure adherence to established guidelines.
• Keep the equipment tracker updated in real time, clearly recording the location and status of all items.
• Enforce item sign‑out and return procedures, ensuring accountability for all equipment under Admin custody.
• Arrange insurance coverage for valuable equipment immediately upon acquisition by Educate!.
• Support the Logistics and Stores Assistant with verification and shipping of program materials.

Central Management of Hotel Bookings for Local Staff (20%)

• Monitor hotel booking requests submitted by staff via email to ensure compliance with organizational requirements, and take appropriate action on non-compliant requests.
• Maintain and update the hotel booking tracker in real time, ensuring accuracy and accessibility.
• Collect and provide feedback to both hotels and staff to strengthen relationships and improve service quality.
• Respond to inquiries from hotels and staff regarding bookings and services.
• Maintaining cordial relationships with partner hotels to ensure seamless operations 
• Collect EFRIS invoices from hotels after staff checkout and compile with all relevant supporting documents and share promptly with the Finance Officer to facilitate timely payments to hotels.
• Conduct training sessions for new staff and refresher sessions for existing staff to ensure full understanding and adherence to hotel booking policies.
• Lead the process of identifying, evaluating, and contracting new partner hotels.
• Maintain an up-to-date tracker of hotel contracts and spearhead contract renewals to ensure continuity before agreements lapse.

Who You Are 🦸‍♀️🦸‍♂️

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or any relevant field, at least 2 years of professional experience.
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite, with excellent MS Word and Excel skills
• Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Thoroughness when accomplishing tasks
• Systems oriented, 
• High integrity 
• Excellent customer service, general management and strong personality.
• Experience in multitasking in a fast – paced environment, set priorities, work independently as well as thrive a team.
• Fits our Five Culture Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below); Learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here 

What We Offer 

• A vibrant, mission-driven environment with a supportive and fun team. 
• Competitive salary based on experience.
• Learning & growth opportunities  

Application Process: Rolling basis, interviews happening soon!

Terms 

• Location is Kampala, Uganda

Job Title: Field Officer - Internal Audit

Location: Kaliro District, Uganda

Reports to: Associate Field Manager - Internal Audit

About GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly (GD) provides cash grants directly to people living in extreme poverty. GD has raised over $800M since launching in 2011, delivered cash to more than 1.2 million recipients, and launched offices in 11 countries. We’re continuing expansion across the Global South. Over the past decade, GD has also supported large-scale, experimental research, expanding the evidence that cash has a positive short and long-term impact on  recipients. As a result, GD has been celebrated as one of the most innovative non-profit companies by Fast Company, while the growing cash transfer movement (and GD’s leading role within it) has been featured in the New York Times Magazine, This American Life, Foreign Affairs, and The Economist.

Across our global offices, our culture is candid, analytical, non-hierarchical, and agile. We work alongside 750+ individuals who come from 21 different countries and speak 69 different languages. Team members at GiveDirectly attest that diversity, equity, and inclusion are not just buzzwords, but a fundamental part of our culture and values. We actively seek to recruit individuals from the communities we serve, and use DEI as a lens in our hiring practices, programs, and initiatives. Our goal is to maintain a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, and feel valued and respected for who they are. We continue to grapple with balancing inclusivity of all cultures and experiences while maintaining cohesion in our values. While there is much that we are still learning, we take care of one another, have fun, as well as provide flexible working hours wherever possible. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or any other status protected by law.

Role Overview
Field Officer - Internal Audit
The Field Officer - Internal Audit will play a critical day-to-day role in delivering GiveDirectly’s gold-standard cash transfer product to donors and recipients. He/she will be responsible for reviewing the recipient surveys and associated processes that facilitate GiveDirectly’s unique cash transfer model. The role will reward high-quality judgment on operational questions and challenges, work ethic, communication skills, and a strong commitment to GiveDirectly’s mission and model. In brief: The Field Officer- Internal Audit will be expected to audit the work of the enrolment team, whose core responsibility is surveying households and enrolling them in our programme.

Key responsibilities:

Engaging with GiveDirectly recipients in the field, to:
1. Assess our field processes and recommend any corrections and improvements as and where seen.
2. Measure the quality of Field Officer data against set data quality standards and report any cases of inconsistency.
3. Assess our field team’s compliance with GD field processes and policies.
4. Identify and report key risks associated with GD’s program in the community.
5. Report any cases of fraud and bribery by GD staff and or recipient(s).
6. Examine local stakeholder’s assessment of GD’s program within their community.

Desired Attributes

• Language requirement: Lulamogi (mandatory) and Lugwere
• Possess at minimum a bachelors degree in relevant fields
• Previous working experience in the field with preference to disadvantaged communities (2 years minimum).
• Ability to audit recipient surveys and associated processes.
• Some Monitoring and Evaluation Experience
• Good computer and mobile device data entry and assessment ability or experience
• Critical thinking ability and good judgment in resolving operational glitches
• Particularly skilled with interpersonal skills with high honesty, and integrity.
• Strong interest in the mission of GiveDirectly and commitment to advancing GiveDirectly’s distinctive values.
• Physical fitness and the ability to cope with difficult weather conditions or terrain.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to represent the organization effectively to external parties.

This is a field based role role on a temporary project (5 months) and applications for this role will be processed on a rolling basis.