Job Vacancy at Islamic Development Bank, Saudi Arabia

Position: Scholarship Program Associate

Responsibilities

The Scholarship Associate assists senior staff members in the development and administration of the scholarship program. In addition, s/he will be doing the following duties in particular

• Provides technical and administrative support in the development of the annual work plan and budget of the Division.
• Collects and compiles the data for the strategy and impact studies related to the Division’s programs.
• Assists in the development, implementation, and improvement of processes and procedures related to the assessment of candidates.
• Supports senior staff in the design and implementation of activities for various stakeholders and partners.
• Maintains a database of all existing and potential partners, beneficiaries and graduates.
• Responds to queries by scholarship applicants. Similarly, verify applications in terms of completeness for different scholarship programs as per established guidelines.
• Initiates and follows up on disbursements, reimbursements, insurance payments and other support services to the Counterpart Organizations (CPOs), IDB Graduates’ Associations (IGAs), universities, Honorary Students’ Counsellors (HSCs) and students/scholars.
• Assists monitoring of payments, recording in General Ledger, reconciling and coordinating with external Banks.
• Assists in planning and implementation of meetings and events as well as assist to maintain communication with scholarship programs’ recipients and partners.
• Compiles performance reports of the selected candidates during their scholarship tenure.
• Furthermore, responding to emails, letters, telephone queries from prospective applicants seeking scholarships; also ensure proper maintenance and archival of all information exchanges.

Requirements

The ideal candidate will have the following qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology or any other related field.
• In addition to that, 3 to 5 years of relevant experience in scholarship programs management or education-related institutions, ideally in similar type multilateral institutions.
• Strong Knowledge of the English language. Similarly, knowledge of Arabic and French preferred.

Islamic Development Bank is a multilateral development financial institution that delivers the Islamic financial services in its 57 member countries.