View Vacancy - MYR - Consular Assistant, A1(L) (Part-Time)

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Consular Roles)
Consular

The Consular Section in Rangoon provides consular assistance, advice and notarial services to British Nationals in Burma. This is a key supporting role. The successful applicant’s responsibilities will include that of office manager and providing administrative support to the UK based VC.  The successful applicant will assist on straight forward assistance cases. These can include hospitalisations, detentions, the death of British national and issues around mental health problems. They will also need to engage with Burmese government officials as well as other partners and stakeholders. There will be occasional travel within Burma. As a majority of our customers are British Nationals and the successful applicant will need to frequently interact with the Burmese authorities, a high degree of fluency in English and  Burmese (both written and spoken) are essential

Roles and responsibilities / what will the jobholder be expected to achieve?:

Office Management and administrative support to the UK Based VC

  • Contacts list kept up to date
  • Key information for customers up-to-date
  • Up-dating waiting room literature
  • Logistical support for outreach activity (flights, transport)

Consular Assistance to distressed British nationals:

  • Provide support by arranging and on occasion accompanying Vice Consul on consular visits including to prisons, detention centres and hospitals
  • Engaging with local Burmese officials including police, immigration officers.
  • Assisting with translations and interpretations

Crisis Preparedness:

  • The job holder will be a member of crisis training and exercising
  • Contribute to consular team planning
  • Provide first class consular  assistance to affected British Nationals in a crisis
  • Language requirement: Fluent in English and Burmese, both written and spoken
  • Administrative skill
  • Communication skill
  • IT skill
  • Experience of working in a customer service role
29 October 2018
Administrative Assistant (AA)
Part-Time, Fixed Term
17.5
12 months
Asia Pacific
Myanmar
Yangon
British Embassy
1
USD
350
19 November 2018

Employment offers are subject to successful clearance of pre-employment and security checks.

Only short-listed applicants will be contacted regarding the next phase of the selection process. To those applicants not short-listed, we extend our appreciation to you for considering the British Government as a potential employer.

Staff recruited locally by the British Embassy Rangoon is subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local employment law.

All applications must be received before 29 October 2018 at 23:55 Burma Standard Time.

Incomplete application forms will not be taken into consideration, so please ensure you provide the information requested. We regret to advise that we will only be contacting short-listed candidates. Applicants called for an interview will be assessed on the core competencies listed above.

The successful candidate should be able to start as soon as possible

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This opportunity is closed to applications.