Executive Personal Assistant Job Description
Executive Personal Assistant Duties & Responsibilities
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Executive Personal Assistant Qualifications
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Education for Executive Personal Assistant
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Employers hiring for the executive personal assistant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Communication, Management, Executive Assistant, Business, Art, Computer, Contemporary Art, Art History, English, Business/Administration
Skills for Executive Personal Assistant
Desired skills for executive personal assistant include:
Desired experience for executive personal assistant includes:
Executive Personal Assistant Examples
Executive Personal Assistant Job Description
- To facilitate meetings,schedule, debriefing meetings so follow up action can be implemented
- Coordinating calendar for business purposes
- Overseeing the driver and necessary travel arrangements
- Coordinating with the spouse's assistant
- Assisting with family errands
- Assist with personal and business needs
- Handle daily business transactions
- Handle finances
- Oversee bookkeeping
- Read contracts
- Ability to liaise confidentially with all stakeholders, both internal and external
- Graduate with minimum 3 years experience as Executive Personal Assistant
- Must be fluent in Arabic and English
- 5+ years of previous experience providing Administrative and/or Personal support
- Business and social calendar management for the executive
- Assisting with extensive travel arrangements
Executive Personal Assistant Job Description
- Able to work in highly demanding environment while being able handle varying personalities and work styles with grace and tact
- Running errands and personal requests
- Coordinates and arranges meetings, prepares agendas, and reserves and prepares facilities
- Organizes and maintains filing system and other records
- Review, respond, screen incoming emails, up to 400 a day
- Pick up lunch, dry cleaning, run personal errands
- Prepares outgoing mail and overnight packages
- Providing a bridge for smooth communication with internal departments
- Prioritizing conflicting needs
- Working closely and effectively to keep him well informed of upcoming commitments and responsibilities, following up appropriately
- Exhibit proactive/leadership role in the Executive Assistant community
- Demonstrate knowledge and uncompromising integrity that is required in an upper executive level position
- Work well with multiple issues, projects and people
- Prioritizing conflicting needs with efficiency and precision
- Anticipating needs and actively seeking out solutions
- Completing critical aspects of deliverables and special assignments by establishing objectives
Executive Personal Assistant Job Description
- Heavy day-to-day management of multiple calendars
- Providing support to private family, including "off hours" (nights and weekends)
- Coordinating and confirming all logistics for appointments, including transportation
- Maintaining contacts, mailing and guest lists
- Maintenance of expenses, tracking databases for purchases and returns, gifts, invitations, expenses and acknowledgements
- Implementing and managing physical and electronic filing system
- Providing ad hoc project support, as needed
- Ensure CEO’s day-to-day responsibilities are managed, prioritized and scheduled appropriately
- Assist in office management of the Firm
- Manage and coordinate all travel related to the CEO and family
- Excellent writing skills including punctuation, grammar and accuracy
- Flexibility, resilience and a positive approach to change
- Diplomatic, strong interpersonal skills and a supportive and helpful manner
- Proven experience in an internal and external communications, events, public relations or media environment
- Anticipate, prepare for and arrange all scheduling needs for CEO and family
- Provide support to private family
Executive Personal Assistant Job Description
- Following up on insurance claims
- Providing backup for the CEO when their assistants are unavailable
- Keeping the EVP abreast of all requests, proposals and general information from internal and external sources
- Liaising with other managers on behalf of the EVP and relevant PA’s
- Coordination and creation of departmental presentations, meeting notes, updates
- To manage the inbox of the EVP, monitoring the emails, flagging and where appropriate actioning or responding to requests on his/her behalf
- Provide detailed itineraries for all trips, ensuring all information is also accessible in Outlook, include contact information for all meetings and events
- Managing day to day initial point of contact activities and on behalf of the Managing Director, UK Retail including customer and supplier contact
- Manage all incoming emails and correspondence, carrying out research or follow up where required, and either responding directly, directing to appropriate parties or drafting a response for the Director
- Manage issues as they arise and take action to resolve them
- Marketing knowledge desirable
- Writing and editing reports and presentations for the MDs including documents for key senior meetings where the accuracy, content and implication is crucial
- Provide an efficient and effective general administration support (including expenses administration, dealing with letters/post, invoice management/tracking/processing, travel tracking, minutes/note taking) to the Managing Director and other Directors as required
- Ad hoc duties as required and provide cover and support to other PAs/ administrators from time to time
- Highly experience in all PA/ administrations tasks (complex travel and itineraries, email/ diary/ meeting management, papers and presentations preparation)
- Experience of providing PA support to high level meetings Senior Leadership / Director level board meetings
Executive Personal Assistant Job Description
- Book and manage timely and cost-efficiently flights, Hotels, Visas
- Prepare reports, time-sheets
- Maintain time attendance and vacation report expenses for VP and ED
- Ensure all expenses are submitted, approved and all receipts received before monthly
- Manage the process and assist in preparation of board materials and executive presentations, including PowerPoint presentations, memos and presentation books
- Maintain Company data files (contracts, studies, reports)
- Coordinate Company insurance renewals and independently coordinate risk documentation for our vendors/customer
- Collaborate with Executive team, clients and vendor partners
- Maintain highly confidential information and files, and collaborate with human resources
- Maintain contract and legal databases
- Minimum 5 years experience supporting senior management executives within multinational company
- 4+ years of previous experience providing Administrative and Personal support to Executive-level staff
- 5 years experience in similar positions (Executive Assistant and Office Support roles, preferably in multinational companies)
- To be able to deal with people at all levels across a multicultural environment
- Have availability to travel if necessary and be able to work extra hours if required
- Used to working for a senior leader in an organisation