Executive Assistant
Executive Assistant
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11-11-2024
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Job Description
Our client is a privately held investment fund focused on unlocking funding and growth opportunities for African and Africafocused startups and entrepreneurs.
Job Overview
The Executive Assistant will be a key member of the team and provide crucial support to the Founding Partners. They must be creative and enjoy working within a small and entrepreneurial environment. The ideal individual will be able to exercise good judgment in a variety of situations with strong written and verbal communication administrative and organizational skills and the ability to maintain a realistic balance among multiple priorities. This role will give you the opportunity to both engage with entrepreneurs and investors and learn about the African startup ecosystem venture capital and fund investment activities.
You must enjoy building and sustaining professional relationships with our ecosystem of startups entrepreneurs and partners in order whilst simultaneously promoting and implementing brand consistency and maximum effort and efficiency.
Job Responsibilities
- Prepare portfolio or fund related documentation including presentation decks financial spreadsheets agenda material and reports.
- Handle sensitive and confidential inbound or outbound information and other requests
- Maintain and manage Founding Partners schedule by coordinating planning and scheduling calls and meetings across different timezones and teams. This includes event management conference registration and speaking engagements.
- Attend meetings and take notes capturing and following up on any action items and next steps.
- Coordinate and manage domestic and international travel arrangements for the Founding Partners with attention to detail while balancing cost efficiency with travel flexibility.
- Prioritize conflicting needs; handles matters expeditiously proactively and follows through on projects to successful completion often with deadline pressures.
- Other additional and/or alternative duties as assigned from time to time including supporting other departments or Executives as needed.
Job Qualifications
- Minimum 24 years experience
- Bachelor s degree in Law Finance Business or related fields.
- Excellent written communication and verbal presentation skills with the ability to maintain confidentiality about sensitive information related to the work of the Managing Partner and the overall organization.
- Positive and highenergy: you bring your best self to work every day.
- Highly resourceful teamplayer with the ability to also be extremely effective independently.
- Excellent organizational & management skills that reflect ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks seamlessly with excellent attention to details.
- Comfortable flagging issues (including your own errors no one is perfect!) as soon as you see them and quick to come up with solutions.
- Proficient in Microsoft office suite and handling of virtual meeting platforms
- Very strong interpersonal skills able to build relationships with stakeholders including staff investment committee investors founders and external partners.
- Flexibility to provide support during offhours as needed in an international environment.
Financial Accounting Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and other financial modeling tools
Education
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
Employment Type
Full Time
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