Equipment Stores Officer
| Location: | Port Elizabeth |
| Education level: | Diploma |
| Type: | Contract |
| Company: | AFDA |
AFDA is inviting applications for the position:
equipment stores officer.Roles and responsibilities As the Equipment Stores Officer, AFDA is looking for a committed and dedicated professional to assist the stores officer to run the equipment stores. The applicant should have good listening skills and a thorough knowledge of professional camera and lighting equipment.
The position requires someone who is organized, efficient and computer literate and interacts well with people. The successful candidate will demonstrate a willingness to embrace AFDA’s unique pedagogy, which is the basis of the interdisciplinary teaching at AFDA.
Essential duties and related skills include:- Intermediate computer literacy (Advanced Excel, Internet Research, email, MS Word, PowerPoint, MS Projects 2010)
- Management of the stores and offering advice to the students on technical matters arising.
- Ensure that all equipment for the terms teaching and term projects are maintained and functional.
- Ensuring that resources for the term are adequately planned for.
- Participate in working with counter-parts to ensure parity across all campuses.
- Providing administrative and practical support to the students, including dealing with students’ queries and training on equipment.
- Attending Open Days.
- Schedule meetings, prepare Lost and Damaged reports, ensuring accurate record keeping and filing. This includes equipment management in distribution and return in good working order.
- Managing Asset registers and statistics.
- Managing all equipment reservations online via Cheqroom asset managemetn system.
- Working with financial records and spreadsheets.
- Letter writing in email or hard copy with a good command of written English.
- Ability to work co-operatively with other teaching staff.
- Ability to manage inventory of facilities and equipment.
- Facilitating Equipment dispatches In alliance with the approved schedules.
- Collating Statistical Reports: Arranging deadline dates, updating spreadsheets, calculating averages.
- Preparing LDD reports for the Registry.
- Organizing correspondence / office filing and following up on pending matters with limited direction and reconciling.
- Timetable scheduling for the purpose of hiring in equipment if required.
- Deadline priority scheduling according to the timetable.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, dealing with the general public, staff and students.
Requirements and personal attributes:- Clerical and administrative competency for running the administrative functions of the Stores.
- Honest and trustworthy – committed to high integrity of excellence.
- Loyalty and a high level of confidentiality.
- Punctuality and reliability.
- Highly developed organizational skills.
- Initiative.
- Maturity to handle a range of situations and to perform under pressure.
- A meticulous and thorough nature.
- An ability to work to tight deadlines.
- Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
- Willingness to support student development.
- Culturally aware and sensitive.
- Respectful and open to learning and guidance.
Selection Criteria:- A minimum of one year industry experience.
- Knowledge of the entrepreneurial environment.
- AFDA Alumni preferential
Drivers licence and own transport
Company Description
Background
AFDA (The School of the Creative Economy) is the leading school of its kind in South Africa, offering higher certificates, undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Motion Picture Medium, Live Performance, Business Innovation and Technology. AFDA is a full member of CILECT, the association of the world's major film and television schools. The AFDA values are passion, self discipline, integrity, reliability and humility.
Posted on 17 May 11:00, Closing date 16 Jul
