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Executive Assistant to Multi-Portfolio Businesswoman

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Full Time Expired
Location
Harare
Application Deadline
Oct 21, 2025

Job Description

Are you a highly organized, resourceful, and discreet professional ready to take ownership of a fast
• paced executive office?
A dynamic and successful businessperson with several active portfolio businesses and non
• profit commitments is seeking a dedicated Executive Assistant (“EA”) to be the anchor of her office operations. This is a critical role for an individual who thrives on responsibility and can manage complex planning, stakeholder relations, and office management, often in the principal’s absence.

Key Responsibilities:
The Role: What You'll Be Doing
As the Executive Assistant, you will be the principal's trusted partner and the primary manager of her professional world. Your core Responsibilities will include:
• Office Management: Establishing and maintaining a highly efficient, organized, and secure executive office environment. You will be responsible for filing systems, supplies, and technology management.
• Calendar & Travel Management: Proactively managing a complex, ever
• changing calendar, scheduling meetings across multiple time zones, and coordinating detailed domestic and international travel coordination.
• Stakeholder & Correspondence Management: Serving as the professional gateway, screening, and prioritising communication (emails, calls, correspondence) and managing relationships with high
• level executives, board members, and clients.
• Project & Task Tracking: Monitoring progress on key initiatives across the principal's portfolios and ensuring deadlines are met, providing timely reminders, and preparing necessary pre
• reading materials.
• Meeting Support: Preparing agendas, compiling comprehensive briefing documents, taking accurate minutes, and ensuring follow
• up actions are executed.
• Confidentiality & Discretion: Handling sensitive information, personal affairs, and confidential business documents with the utmost professionalism and integrity.

Requirements

The Ideal Candidate: Who You Are
You are more than an administrator—you are an intuitive problem
• solver and an initiative
• taking gatekeeper.
• Experience: Proven Experience (5+ years) as an Executive Assistant reporting directly to a CEO, Principal, or Senior Executive with complex, multi
• faceted Responsibilities.
• Ownership: The ability to manage the Executive’s office independently confidently and capably and maintain operations seamlessly when the principal is traveling or engaged in meetings.
• Technical Proficiency: Expert level in Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power. Point) and Experience with CRM or project management tools.
• Soft Skills: Exceptional written and verbal communication Skills, meticulous diligent, and a calm, professional demeanour under pressure.
• Education: A relevant undergraduate degree or post
• secondary school Requirements.
Why Join This Office?
This is a unique opportunity to work alongside a successful leader and gain direct exposure to various industries and high
• level decision
• making. You will be valued for your judgment, capability, and contribution to the smooth operation of a demanding and rewarding professional life.

Responsibilities

The Role: What You'll Be Doing
As the Executive Assistant, you will be the principal's trusted partner and the primary manager of her professional world. Your core Responsibilities will include:
• Office Management: Establishing and maintaining a highly efficient, organized, and secure executive office environment. You will be responsible for filing systems, supplies, and technology management.
• Calendar & Travel Management: Proactively managing a complex, ever
• changing calendar, scheduling meetings across multiple time zones, and coordinating detailed domestic and international travel coordination.
• Stakeholder & Correspondence Management: Serving as the professional gateway, screening, and prioritising communication (emails, calls, correspondence) and managing relationships with high
• level executives, board members, and clients.
• Project & Task Tracking: Monitoring progress on key initiatives across the principal's portfolios and ensuring deadlines are met, providing timely reminders, and preparing necessary pre
• reading materials.
• Meeting Support: Preparing agendas, compiling comprehensive briefing documents, taking accurate minutes, and ensuring follow
• up actions are executed.
• Confidentiality & Discretion: Handling sensitive information, personal affairs, and confidential business documents with the utmost professionalism and integrity.

How To Apply

To Apply: Please submit your confidential CV and a Cover Letter detailing your Experience in supporting a multi portfolio Executive and your approach to managing an office independently to lavenderchena@gmail.com by close of business on 21 October 2025. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Quick Info
Category
Administrative
Posted
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Last Updated
3 days, 17 hours ago
Skills Required
Administration Administrative Support Attention to Detail CRM Calendar Management Communication Degree Discretion Domestic Work Education Executive Assistant Filing Initiative Integrity Leadership Management Meeting Deadlines Microsoft Excel Microsoft Office Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Word Minute Taking Office Management Operations Organizational Skills Planning Portfolio Management Professionalism Project Management Report Writing Scheduling Time Management Travel Travel Arrangements Verbal Communication Working Under Pressure