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The Receptionist is responsible for providing secretarial, clerical and administrative support to Resident Office (RO) staff in order to ensure an effective and efficient operation of the office. provides comprehensive high quality secretarial support to staff from various teams represented in RO and also works in cooperation with service providers (travel agencies, courier companies, etc.) Acting as the first point of contact the Receptionist deals with general enquiries, answers phone calls and greets visitors as they arrive at the office. They also ensure that the office activities are running smoothly in terms of supplies and equipment and support the Resident Office staff with basic clerical duties and tasks.
Job Responsibility
Screening incoming telephone calls (internal and external), determine purpose of calls, and forward calls to appropriate personnel or department, take and deliver messages when appropriate personnel are unavailable
Answer questions about organization and provide callers with address, directions, and other information
Deal with general inquiries in a professional and courteous manner, in person, on the telephone or via e-mail
direct inquiries as appropriate
Greet and receive visitors, determine nature of business, direct and accompany visitors to appropriate personnel, keep visitors log
Depending on RO may prepare meeting room with presentation equipment/materials and refreshments Arrange passes, monitor visitors to the RO and prepare periodical statistics regarding the visitors from HQ
Assist visiting missions if required
Arrange couriers’. Screen, sort and process mail for RO staff
Scan, copy and send documents
May assist with maintaining the archives and filing
Depending on RO may schedule appointments for RO staff, maintain appointment diary electronically in MS Outlook
Organize conference and meeting room bookings
Depending on RO may organize and register drivers working schedules
Arrange transportation for the EBRD visitors on request
Provide assistance and secretarial back up to support Banker/s if required
Depending on RO may be required to provide ad hoc support to the secretaries/administrative staff/Office Manager
May be responsible for the maintaining of staff whereabouts schedule
May be responsible for checking general RO e-mail and forwarding to the relevant staff member for further action
May be entitled to ITC duties
Depending on RO may assist with arranging local visas for staff and coordination with the foreign ministry
Requirements
Minimum secondary education, university preferred
Previous experience in a receptionist / secretarial capacity
Familiarity with the use of office equipment, such as, photocopiers etc.
Excellent verbal communication skills with a good telephone manner
Good interpersonal skills
Computer literate, with keyboard skills and experience of word-processing, (Microsoft Word) and e-mail (Microsoft Outlook) combined with ability to acquire other skills as necessary
Ability to work on own initiative and take responsibility where necessary and to work as part of a team
Multilingual – English plus relevant country of operation language
A good phone manner and excellent organisational skills with ability to deal with people effectively