This is quite a revealing text, its a job advert from the Office of the Minister of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities. It is not clear what happened to the two young ladies that were in these posts earlier on in the year. It says nothing about the salary.
Vacancies for Administrative Assistants
The Ministry of State for Antiquities in Cairo, Egypt (MSA, formerly the Supreme Council of Antiquities), seeks to hire Administrative Assistants for two one-year positions, renewable on an annual basis. Both positions are under the direct supervision of the Minister. [...]
1. Administrative Assistant (Media Content)
This Administrative Assistant offers support to the Minister for media content requiring native proficiency in the English language and a background in Egyptology. The tasks associated with this position include, but are not limited to: · accompanying the Minister on site visits and to press and cultural events, and keeping a photographic record of them
· editing and organizing images for the Ministry’s Image Bank database
· creating and posting content on the Minister’s personal website in the form of blog entries, event information, photos, publications and press releases
· answering fan mail received through the Minister’s website and Facebook
· researching Egyptological and administrative topics in order to support the Minister in his activities and decisions
· compiling and presenting information in the form of database records, spreadsheets and narrative reports
· assisting with the gathering of content, editing and uploading of material for the English MSA website
· coordinating with Egyptian colleagues to carry out other assignments as necessary
Desired skills include: [...]
2. Administrative Assistant
This Administrative Assistant offers support to the Minister in administrative tasks requiring native proficiency in the English language and a background in Egyptology. These tasks include, but are not limited to:
· editing written correspondence in English from handwritten drafts or dictation
· editing English language reports, articles and other written material prepared by the Minister or his staff
· researching Egyptological and administrative topics in order to support the Minister in his activities and decisions
· compiling and presenting information in the form of database records, spreadsheets and narrative reports
· building and maintaining a database of images for use by the Ministry, including basic manipulation of digital images and identification of images for database records
· assisting with the gathering of content, editing and uploading of material for the English MSA website
· coordinating with Egyptian colleagues to carry out other assignments as necessary
Desired skills include:[...]
the full advert
can be seen here. It is interesting to note that this suggests that all those texts covering the events of 28th January onwards on his "personal blog" might not have been written by Hawass at all, but were ghost-written by a temporary employee in his ministry. I wonder how many other ministers of culture anywhere in the world use state funds to employ an administrative assistant to deal with "fan mail"?
This is quite a revealing text, its a job advert from the Office of the Minister of the Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities. It is not clear what happened to the two young ladies that were in these posts earlier on in the year. It says nothing about the salary.
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