Administrative Manager (M/F) at French Embassy in Tanzania

Administrative Manager (F/H) at the Embassy of France in Tanzania - General Secretariat of the Embassy - Dar es Salaam

• Primary Function: Administrative Manager
• Job Type: Budgetary and Accounting Manager
• Activity Area: Administration - Financial Affairs
• Location: Embassy of France in Tanzania, 2 Kilimani Road, PO Box 2349, 14110 Dar es Salaam
• Posting Date: 01/09/2026
• Time Allocation: 50% Budgetary and Accounting Manager; 50% Visa Application Instructor

Summary Description

• Carry out tasks related to the budgetary and accounting management of the post
• Support the General Secretariat (SGA) team in the administrative monitoring of agents and management of works
• Serve as the Head of the Visa service
• Conduct the instruction of visa application files
• Provide occasional assistance on French administration subjects (specifically social affairs)
• Act as a partner to the agent in charge of miscellaneous chancery affairs and the manager

Main Activities

SGA (General Secretariat)

• Enter budgetary acts of prescribing services
• Verify supporting documents and control files before payment
• Handle cash funds and dematerialized payments
• Assist prescribing services, particularly through the production of restitutions
• Ensure administrative management of local and permanent agents (leave, recovery, SAGAIE...)
• Supervise the three agents of the Residence
• Participate in the monitoring of real estate works

Consular

• Apply and control the correct use of visa regulations
• Perform verification, instruction, and decision-making on visa application files
• Participate in daily monitoring and control of the service provider's activity
• Inform the head of chancery
• Participate in reflections on improving the quality of services rendered
• Organize and plan the team's work and provide professional support to the visa agent

Skills and Competencies

Knowledge

• Ministry and its networks: Practical
• Organization and operation of management and provider services: Practical
• Budgetary and accounting rules and processes: Mastery

Savoir-faire (Practical Skills)

• Analyze information, data, a situation, or a device: Expert
• Communicate: Expert
• Control: Expert
• Master deadlines: Expert
• Implement a method, technique, system, or device: Expert
• Prioritize, Propose, and Report: Mastery
• Work in a team: Expert
• Work in a network: Mastery

Savoir-être (Soft Skills)

• Team spirit, Initiative, Autonomy, Rigorous, Intellectual curiosity, Reactivity, and Sense of analysis: Expert

Tools and Languages

• Office automation: Mastery
• English: B2 (Advanced/Independent)
• Knowledge of a local language or the region is an asset