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Personal Assistant (Start up)

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Available for flexible, full-time hours
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • 5+ years of experience with Microsoft Office
  • Bachelor's degree (required)

Responsibilities

  • Act as the point of contact between executive and internal/external clients/partners
  • Manage calendars and make internal arrangements proactively
  • Handle email and messaging correspondence on behalf of the executive
  • Assist with the preparation of reports, briefs, presentations and other materials for meetings and events

Key facts

Other skills

  • Time Management
  • Microsoft Office
  • Detail Oriented
  • Non-Verbal Communication
  • Critical Thinking
  • Calmness Under Pressure

About the company

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Duapa Africa

DUAPA AFRICA is a business and development firm committed to driving the socioeconomic transformation and sustainable development of Africa and the world through innovative solutions. We believe that a critical mass of passionate and purposeful people can make a positive difference through sound business practices with social impact by working with like-minded partners. Our value proposition lies in the creation of products and services that improves and impact positively the lives of people and communities. In China, we work at promoting business, investment and development cooperation amongst African countries and the rest of the world. Our activities include human capital development, capacity building, development projects, investment facilitation, business support, events and general consulting. Our activities through boot camps, consulting, opportunities platform and other capacity building over the past 6 months has directly benefited and impacted more than 5000 people mostly businesses, governments, individuals and organizations across Africa, China and globally.

Company details

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Job description

Company Description

Dua Pa Initiative is a social enterprise that provides human resources and strategic development support to clients globally. 

Dua Pa Consultancy supports the goal of growing business that will increase the GDP of the country by 1%

Job Description

Dua Pa is seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Personal Assistant to support Dua Pa's projects and teams. Renewal is dependent on performance. The ideal candidate will have strong written communication and digital marketing skills, as well as experience working with business owners. The person should have experience working with senior level management.

Below are some of the key duties of the role:

  • Act as the point of contact between executive and internal/external clients/partners.
  • Manage calendars and make internal arrangements proactively.
  • Handle email and messaging correspondence on behalf of the executive, including responding to inquiries and drafting professional communications.
  • Draft comprehensive notes and create project plans.
  • Assist with the preparation of reports, briefs, presentations and other materials for meetings and events. 
  • Organizing documents.
  • Travel to neighboring regions as needed.
  • Handle very sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
  • Provide general administrative and technology implementation support as needed.

Success (and promotion) look like:

  • Having timely communication 99% of the time.
  • Creating workflows that allow all team members to partner efficiently (time saving strategies).
  • Creating calendar automations.
  • Paying attention to detail with no grammatical errors.
  • No monetary loss of budgets that you are assigned to support.

Qualifications

  • Available for flexible, full-time hours.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills are critical; must be take initiative and think critically.
  • Attention to detail.
  • Solid time management skills are preferred.
  • Ability to work well under pressure and manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
  • 5+ years of experience with Microsoft Office (Word, Powerpoint, Excel, etc.)
  • 2+ years of experience with Business Whatsapp, Slack, Google tools (Gmail, Gcal, etc.)
  • 3+ years of experience with working from home/remote.
  • Fluent in English.
  • Driver's License (preferred); able to lift 5 - 9 kg to set up and move items around.
  • Bachelor's degree (required).
  • Marketing and/or project management experience  (preferred).

Additional Information

Schedule: Full-time for 6 months (renewable upon performance)

Additional Information: Reliable and stable internet is a must as this role is hybrid and often times you will be remote. If you do not have stable internet, you will be required to come to an office location.

Salary: 2,000 - 4,000 GHS per month for full time.

 

If you are a highly motivated and organized individual. We encourage you to apply for this exciting opportunity. 

We are an equal opportunity employer.

 

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