Personal Assistant

5 months ago


Sandton, South Africa CBRE Excellerate Full time

**Main Purpose / Objective of the position**:
We are looking for a versatile and highly-organized personal assistant to perform personalized administrative duties for 3 Executives. In this role, you will be responsible for scheduling meetings, taking notes, and handling correspondence on behalf of managers. You will also be required to make travel arrangements and assist with other duties when required.

To ensure success as a personal assistant, you should exhibit excellent organizational skills and demonstrable experience in a secretarial role. Accomplished personal assistants are intuitive to the needs of the Executives and work autonomously to provide customized administrative support.

**Responsibilities**:

- Reporting to 3 Executives and performing secretarial and administrative duties.
- Typing, formatting, and editing reports, documents, and presentations.
- Entering data, maintaining databases, and keeping records.
- Liaising with internal departments, answering calls, and making travel arrangements.
- Managing internal and external correspondence on behalf of the Executives.
- Scheduling appointments, maintaining an events calendar, and sending reminders.
- Copying, scanning, and faxing documents, as well as taking notes.
- Preparing for scheduled events and arranging refreshments, if required.
- Ordering office supplies and replacements, as well as managing mail and courier services.
- Observing best business practices and etiquette.

Experience Required:

- Matric with post graduate diploma or certification in administration
- Certification in secretarial work, office administration, or related training.
- 5-10 years of experience as a personal assistant would be advantageous.
- Extensive experience in creating documents and spreadsheets, using office software such as MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Advanced typing, note-taking, recordkeeping, and organizational skills.
- Ability to manage internal and external correspondence.
- Extensive experience in travel organisation on an Executive Level
- Working knowledge of printers, copiers, scanners, and fax machines.
- Proficiency in appointment scheduling software such as MS Outlook, as well as call forwarding.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills


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