Summit Recruitment and Search Africa is a leading Recruitment and Executive Search agency head quartered in Kenya providing outstanding talent to a wide range of companies and NGO’s in various business sectors across Africa.
Our client, a leading IT and Cybersecurity consulting company in Texas, is seeking to recruit a highly motivated The company supports Small to medium business by providing strategic IT services. The successful candidate will be responsible for the secretarial and administrative work on a one-to-one basis on a variety of tasks related to Managing the CEO’s working life and communication. The ideal candidate should have at least 7 years’ experience.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as the CEO’s first point of contact with people inside & outside the organization.
- Manage the executive’s calendar, workflow, and service delivery charter timelines.
- Coordinate and prepare regular and special meetings of the board committees as requested.
- Demonstrate strong self-leadership and autonomy through high levels of planning, prioritization, organization and time management.
- Take accurate meeting minutes.
- Coordinate response to all email addressed to the CEO
- Management of the CEO’s calendar and appointments.
- Relay accurate and timely messages from telephone callers and answer queries where possible.
- Develop and carry out an efficient documentation and filing system
- Draft, type and dispatch CEO’s correspondence.
- Liaise with relevant individuals and external parties to arrange meetings, prepare agendas, and capture minutes.
- Maintain a comprehensive filling system.
- Coordinate senior management team travel.
- Tabulate and retrieve CEO’s office expenditures and claims.
- Arrange local transportation when necessary to further the work of the office of the CEO.
- Perform and coordinate all administrative activities for the senior management team.
- Undertake any other duties as instructed.
- Demonstrable ability to work in a fast-paced organization and interdependent effective delivery of results.
- Exceptional interpersonal and verbal communication skills and excellent phone skills are required.
- Capability to focus and take initiative to drive positive outcomes even when things are not clear by applying critical thinking and seeking timely guidance.
- High level of demonstrable planning, prioritization, and execution.
Qualifications
- Must have a bachelor’s degree international business relation or any related degree.
- Must have at least 7 years in a similar role.
- Must have excellent organization and planning skills.
- Must have discretion and confidentiality.
- Comfortable working in GMT-5 hours
- Strong computer skills
- Very strong proficiency in Microsoft Suite of Applications.
- Discretion and confidentiality
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