View Vacancy - MNU - DIT Support Officer A2
The Department for International Trade (DIT) in Ulaanbaatar started its operations in 2013 with an objective to increase trade and investment between UK and Mongolia.
We are currently looking to recruit a full-time DIT Support Officer to join a small and busy team. The successful candidate will play a key role in assisting UK companies to do business in Mongolia through providing advice and market research, facilitating meetings, and organising events.
This position is advertised on a fixed-term basis for one (1) year.
Roles and responsibilities:
- To assist the DIT team in performing day to day work. This involves providing administrative support to the DIT team as required, including organising meetings and travel, processing expenses, preparing documents and issuing invitations for events.
- To update the local DIT contact database and the global DIT customer management system (Data hub), support the DIT team in responding to enquiries from British businesses, prepare bespoke market research reports, organise visits and events, and do follow up.
- Proactively scan the market for opportunities for British companies and publish those opportunities on the global database.
- To support wider Embassy activities (GREAT events, high level visits etc) as necessary. To look after social media pages of the DIT and implementing the marketing plan outlined by the Head of Mining and and Infrastructure (M&I) and Trade and Investment (T&I) Officer. As part of the marketing responsibilities, to be in charge of the marketing inventories and work with the relevant suppliers.
- To support the Head of M&I to shape and deliver an effective local stakeholder engagement plan, including meetings and events (e.g. receptions). To develop relationship with stakeholders at the working level and be the driving force in follow ups with stakeholders in Mongolia and in the UK.
- To support wider DIT/ Embassy priorities as these develop
- Educated to degree level
- Good written/spoken English and Mongolian
- Team work skills
- Effective time management skills
- An ability to take initiative
- Good command of Excel, Word & PowerPoint
- Understanding of campaign planning & event delivery
- Self starter who is able to work with little supervision
- Knowledge and experience of marketing and social media
- Some evening and weekend work will be required as there will be occasional travel to the UK and in the region
- Experience in organising events and managing projects would be an advantage
- Private sector experience is desirable but not essential
All applications must be received before 11:55PM (Ulaanbaatar time) on 12 December 2017.
Incomplete application forms will not be taken into consideration, so please ensure you provide the information requested. Applicants called for an interview will be assessed on the core competencies listed above.
This opportunity is closed to applications.