Friday, 27 March 2015

Position Description

In this role, the successful candidate will support the quality and accuracy of content for hotel partners on Expedia, Hotels.com, and Venere brand websites. This fast-paced role offers a great opportunity for goal and process-driven people with a fine eye for detail to work on one of Expedia's exciting strategic initiatives. Lodging Content Associates onboard newly affiliated hotels, adding property amenities, photos, star ratings, and hotel data such as name and location, all within a due date.

Successful candidates will complete work to program standards, while working and communicating with sales teams (Market Managers), hoteliers, and colleagues from content, media, star ratings, data management, and localization teams. Successful Candidates will possess solid customer-service skills and be able to interact clearly and professionally with partners by email and telephone. Candidates will need to successfully pass a comprehensive content test inclusive of writing and editing test samples. Native level of English is required; fluency in Arabic and/or French preferred. This is a full-time and onsite position in the Dubai offices of Expedia, Inc. Please apply only if you feel you will fit in with a strong team whose members are exceptionally conscientious, hardworking, and thorough.

Responsibilities:

• Help create new hotel content and perform ongoing maintenance of hotel content by capturing and confirming data about property amenities, on-site services, and contact information. This may be performed in local language or English and involves calling the hotel to gather information as well as using a checklist to ensure requisite data is gathered.

• Edit existing hotel content in English, including paragraphs, amenities, and photos; address change requests, clarifying details, when necessary, while adhering to style guidelines, defined processes, classifications, and image standards; call the hotel to gather information; and answer a checklist of questions about the property

• Assign star ratings within star rating criteria guidelines, and categorizing by themes and structure types

• Solidly understand different lodging/property types in the travel industry and the differing services and amenities featured

• Make decisions and apply content appropriately following defined processes and classifications

• Acquire photos through web scraping and contacting hotels; moderate and load photos; classify photos per criteria

• Work efficiently towards daily targets and team metrics (due dates); complete all work to program standards as defined for each process; focus on continuous improvement

• Train hotel partners on tools and processes that will optimize their products on our sites

• Provide project support for other content tasks, as assigned

Work Experience and Education Guidelines:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Hospitality/Hotel Management, or English/Communications

• Hotel-industry experience required

• 2 years of content experience at an e-commerce site is a plus

Core Competencies:

• English native speaker or equivalent required; fluency in Arabic and/or French required.

• Thorough understanding of the hotel industry and differing amenities that appear in different types of hotel product

• Excellent writing, spelling, and grammar skills in English, with strong attention to detail, speed, and accuracy

• Ability to learn quickly and ask good questions

• Able to complete work to program standards by making independent decisions by applying definitions & criteria

• Knowledge of photo production, aesthetics and digital media a plus

• Excellent ability to work and learn independently, as well as collaborate with larger teams

• Excellent telephone manner

• Fluency with Internet and online search; ability to learn new software, tools, and technical

Job Details

Date Posted:	2015-01-24
Job Location:	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Job Role:	Other
Company Industry:	Other

Preferred Candidate

Career Level:

Entry Level

Apply Now - Jobs in UAE - Jobs in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Jobs in Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Other Jobs in UAE - Search All Jobs

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Click Here To Apply http://ift.tt/1prwVXh Here to Apply for

IT Jobs

Sales Jobs

Finance Jobs

http://ift.tt/1uwicyF

http://ift.tt/eA8V8J Click Here To Apply http://ift.tt/YwEV43 Here to Apply for

IT Jobs

Sales Jobs

Finance Jobs

Labels: 2015 at 03:07PM, January 24

SECRETARY - The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

Standard Function Description

 Performs general secretarial duties independently.

 Screen mail, telephone and draft correspondence

 Translate simple documents (English into Arabic and vice versa).

 Organizes meetings and maintain schedules and calendars for the management upon request.

 Maintain paper and physical simple filing

Duties and Responsibilities

 Provide secretarial support to the Chancellery and Management team

 Distributes paper mail, as well as electronic messages from Amman Team box and ensures follow up

 Drafts correspondence and ensures that the ICRC Protocol is well respected

 Responds to standard messages

 Arranges meeting venue, reception, and transportation upon request.

 In coordination with the Head of Chancellery (HoC), makes sure that the letterhead stationery, business cards, envelopes, etc. comply with the applicable visual identity rules.

 Ensures the delegation organizational chart and the telephone lists are updated.

 In charge of the Diplomatic Mail out/ In.

 Reminds the Management team about various deadlines [Periodical Reports…ect]

 Updated the content of databases; DB Contacts, DB Départ en Mission, General DocSharing DB…

 In coordination with the HoC, files electronic messages in Amman Ref Files

 Responsible for photocopies and scanned works for the HoC and Management

 Runs stock of promotional items for Management

 Organises the dispatch of the greetings card to interlocutors

 Follow up the latest changes / evolution on office tools and take necessary time for self-learning in order to transmit own knowledge to Colleagues.

 Deals with external interlocutors upon request: [contact them, escort them from the reception area to the HoD office/meeting room, update contact details, and send meeting invitations]

 Upon request, translate documents from Arabic into English and vice versa for the management team: incoming/ outgoing letters, emails, invitation cards and faxes.

Office Management

 Replaces the HoC during her absence to ensure smooth running of the chancellery

 Replaces the Receptionist during absence (handle switchboard, take message and relay information, receive visitors, etc…)

Job Details

Date Posted:	2015-01-23
Job Location:	Amman, Jordan
Job Role:	Secretarial
Company Industry:	Community/Social Services/and Nonprofit
Monthly Salary:	US $1,500