Centre for Accounting Studies (CAS) is the leading Accounting training institution which is moving into a business school. CAS is looking for an energetic, committed and passionate Executive Assistant for the Rector’s Office.
Purpose of the Job;
To provide a full range of administrative and organizational support for the Rector. This position may handle confidential and sensitive correspondence and requires exercising a high degree of professionalism, discretion, tact, resourcefulness and initiative.
Summarised Duties;
Executive Support
• To provide proactive confidential, high level, efficient and effective PA executive and administrative support to the Rector.
• Act as first point of contact in Rector’s office, demonstrating a high level of autonomy and independent working and ability to manage conflicting demands to deal with all communication to the officer, including highly sensitive material.
Secretarial Duties
• Arrange, prepare and distribute documentation for Council meetings to Council members and liaise with Council members as far as meetings are concerned.
• Handle all necessary logistics with regards to Council meetings e.g. venue and refreshments.
• Do all necessary typing e.g. memos, sent e-mails on behalf of the Rector.
• Projects and Research
• Assist in coordinating projects and events under Rector’s Office and produce reports for the Rector.
• Assist in monitoring of projects and activities against agreed action plans.
• Draft documents or conduct research for further Rector’s work and/or other developments.
• Prepare briefing memo, and relevant updates for Rector on outstanding projects.
• Coordinate and administer all aspects of internship programme.
• Draft reports and proposals for internships.
• Office Security
• Generally keep the office of the Rector secure & information confidential at all times.
Qualifications, experience and desirable attributes
• Degree in Business Administration/Management or equivalent with a flair for figures or equivalent professional qualification, should have at least 2 years’ work experience
and
• Must be flexible, have good time management skills, minutes taking skills and computer literacy
• Ability to work independently
• Highly developed written communication with excellent attention to detail
• Previous experience of working in a customer oriented environment
• Experience of utilizing the full suite of Microsoft office applications (including word, PowerPoint, excel to an advance level)
Remuneration
CAS offers competitive market related remuneration.
Interested applicants should send their detailed CV to the Human Resource &Organizational Manager at the Centre for Accounting Studies, 46 Bowker, Old Europa or email to [email protected] on or before 18th August 2019.
Detailed job description can be accessed from HRODM office, CAS.