Project Assistant

About the role

The Project Assistant will support the Programme Lead in documenting, organising and communicating programme activities across multiple projects. This role focuses on turning meetings, field activities and implementation experiences into professional reports that guide decision‑making.

Key responsibilities

• Prepare professional meeting minutes
• Develop daily, weekly and monthly programme reports
• Produce field activity reports and implementation summaries
• Support proposal and technical document preparation
• Maintain document version control and programme repositories
• Organise project files, track decisions and action points
• Develop lessons‑learned registers and support institutional knowledge management
• Assist with monitoring and evaluation reporting, activity trackers, issue and risk logs
• Consolidate implementation updates for performance reporting
• Coordinate programme documentation, schedule meetings and follow up on assigned actions
• Support stakeholder communication and prepare presentations or briefing materials

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Development Studies, Project Management, Public Administration, Communications, English, Monitoring & Evaluation or a related field
• Excellent written and spoken English
• Exceptional report‑writing skills
• Strong analytical and organisational abilities
• High attention to detail
• Ability to work independently and meet deadlines

Required skills

• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft Excel
• Microsoft PowerPoint
• Google Workspace