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Administrative Coordinator

Sama

Sama

Administration, Education
Nairobi, Kenya
Posted on Friday, September 13, 2024

About the Job:

The incumbent will assist in the day to day running of the administration department.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Ensure all administrative critical services are running smoothly and escalate problem areas on time.
  • Manage all outsourced critical services.
  • Ensure scheduling of staff transport is done in a timely and precise manner.
  • Receive communication from external parties and ensure it gets directed to the relative department and where required provide feedback.
  • Ensure reconciliation of meal and transport deductions is done on time and any errors are rectified before payroll closing.
  • Verify and reconcile all admin related vendor invoices and liaise with Finance for payment.
  • Maintain records for stock levels of office supplies and liaising with Procurement Team for purchase.
  • Facilitate planning of logistics for all company events including sitting on planning committees where required.
  • Work closely with all other departments to ensure that the admin department provides a clean, safe and friendly working environment to all staff at all times.
  • Work with the IT department to create and manage a meeting room scheduler including managing access to restricted areas.
  • Create and provide periodic and ad hoc reports.
  • Manage and supervise the Admin Assistant Team.
  • Any other duties as may be assigned from time to time.

Minimum Qualifications:

  • Degree in Business Administration or equivalent.
  • Proven minimum of 2 years supervisory experience in a reputable organization.

Good To Have:

  • Experience with MS Office applications with strong proficiency in MS Word and MS Excel
  • Solid knowledge of office procedures
  • Knowledge of people management skills
  • Flexible to work various shifts

About Sama

Sama provides high-quality training data that powers AI technology for Fortune 2000 companies such as Google, Walmart, Ford, Microsoft, and Marriott. We’re experts in data curation and data annotation for 2D and 3D image, video, and sensor data for machine learning algorithms.. Sama offers the highest quality SLAs in the industry, along with cutting-edge ML-assisted annotation tools, QA processes, and security and compliance standards.

Founded in 2008 on the belief that “talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not”, Sama is driven by the mission to expand opportunities for those who are underprivileged. As a certified B-corp, Sama has provided worker training programs to increase economic opportunity for more than 13,000 people from underserved communities. By connecting our customers with amazing talent in East Africa, we've impacted more than 59,000 workers and their dependents.

Today, our vision is to provide data scientists, ML engineers, and data operations teams with an indispensable, integrated platform for AI data preparation, labeling, and collection.

For more information, visit www.sama.com.

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Our Culture:

Sama is quite unique. We are a technology company with a social mission. People that thrive in a high-growth environment, love working on the bleeding edge of technology, and really care about having a positive impact on the world are a great fit for the Sama culture. Our core values are One Team, One Goal - Deliver. Period. - Trust & Transparency - Customer First - Humanity.

Our Benefits:

Sama is proud to offer competitive compensation corresponding to market data & level of experience. Sama also offers benefits packages based on country of employment, including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, and life insurance, holiday and vacation policies, professional development stipends and a paid sabbatical program. Our Talent Acquisition team would be happy to discuss our benefits packages with you in more detail during the interview process.

At Sama, we pride ourselves in being a diverse and equal opportunity employer.