Provide high-level administrative support to a senior leader, including managing complex calendars and acting as a gatekeeper. Responsible for recording meeting minutes, tracking technical action items, and creating professional presentations for stakeholders.
This is a remote position.
A pioneering South African systems integration firm that delivers complex engineering projects is seeking a professional fully remote Half-day Personal Assistant to provide elite administrative support to a senior leader on a 6-month fixed-term contract. It is an exceptional opportunity for a digitally fluent professional to serve as a high-level gatekeeper, capturing technical discussion points and systematically driving action items across diverse industry verticals.
Key Responsibilities:
- Executive Calendar Architecture: Oversee and optimize the executive’s daily diary, managing call routing and scheduling appointments to shield strategic engineering focus time.
- Meeting Governance: Attend critical project and corporate meetings to record comprehensive, accurate minutes and capture technical talking points.
- Deliverable Tracking: Extract action points post-meeting, distribute them to relevant cross-functional engineering teams, and maintain systematic follow-ups to ensure project milestones are achieved.
- Presentation Design: Synthesize operational data and project briefs into polished, professional presentations tailored for corporate and technical stakeholders.
- Project Support: Support with ad-hoc tasks and projects.
Requirements
- Highly articulate with impeccable written and verbal English communication abilities, essential for professional stakeholder engagement.
- Highly organised, with a proven track record of handling confidential corporate data with absolute discretion.
- Strong experience in complex diary management, minute-taking, and tracking executive deliverables.
Benefits
- This is a half-day, remote position from 08:00 - 13:00, Mondays to Fridays.
- Contract type: 6-month fixed-term, with the potential of permanency based on performance.