Personal Assistant to the CEO

Job Title: Personal Assistant to the CEO

Responsibilities
-Organize the flow of work in the CEO’s office
-Manage external communications [regional and international]
-Organize the CEO’s internal, regional and international travels and meetings and undertake related follow ups
-Help develop and manage an efficient system for long distance conference calls, web and video conferencing,
-Undertake rapid internet/desk research as needed
-Prepare executive summaries and scenarios on work issues
-Coordinate board and other meetings, take meeting minutes and follow up as deemed appropriate.
-Ensure the regular update of the English language website.
-Write concept notes and short proposals as deemed necessary

Qualifications
-A university degree [Bachelors or Masters] is preferred
-A solid relevant work experience of at least 3 years is expected
-Excellent communication and inter-personal skills
-Excellent command of English language [speaking and writing] and a good command of Arabic [speaking and writing]
-Excellent management, administrative and organizational skills
- Capacity to undertake parallel and complex tasks
-Independent, self motivated and autonomous
-Resilient and capable of getting the job done
-Capable of finding solutions to problems as they arise
-Advanced skills in web research
-Willingness and capacity to learn
-Good command of Excel and Power point. Knowledge of access is a plus; fast typing
both in English and Arabic.

Interested applicants must send their resume, cover letter setting out how they meet the
required qualifications and references to the following email address by July 17th 2010.
[email protected]