Posted 2 years ago
JOB TITLE: Executive Coordinator
JOB LOCATION: Abuja
Job Type: Full-time
JOB DETAILS:
- We are seeking an Executive Coordinator to join the business team in Nigeria.
- This individual will play an integral role in providing day-to-day support to the Country Director as well as also directly support engagement across all business units and with the Nigeria Management Team and Global Senior Leadership Team.
- The role will also require coordinating daily operational functions and business efficiency within the larger team and providing support for external relations efforts.
- The role requires handling of confidential business information on a regular basis and with great discretion.
- We seek someone with prior experience as a technical assistant, executive assistant, or business coordinator and is dynamic, with process administrative skills.
- The ideal candidate would highly motivated, detail oriented and has experience with managing calendar engagements, report writing, business improvement and efficiency support.
- We require someone who understands the importance of constant engagement to ensure maximum efficiency and can support the coordination of various units to function as one whole.
- The candidate must also be passionate about contributing to solving one of Nigeria’s (sub-Saharan Africa’s) most critical challenges – energy access deficit.
- This position provides the opportunity to join a growing team that is changing the face of rural electrification in many countries in across Asia and Africa.
Key Responsibilities
General:
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- Provide daily administrative support to the Country Director maximizing effective use of his time and priorities, ensuring his participation in internal and external meetings / events are well prepared, scheduling and correspondence, maintaining calendar or events and detailed travel plans.
- Communicates directly and on behalf of the CD with internal/external stakeholders and others on matters as directed.
- Provides regular operating status reports to Country Director as needed, assisting during operational reviews through follow up on assigned performance tasks and deadlines
- Work and coordinate with cross-functional teams towards business initiatives, improvement and support to ensure business continuity or as directed.
- Collaborate with Business Heads to capture progress, commitments and decisions and report this to the Country Director on a regular basis.
- Provide research and business support to the Country Director and other Business Units as needed.
- Support and manage the preparation of briefing materials for the Country Director and other Business Heads as required.
- Other duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Business Analysis:
- Prepare and share regular status reports for Business Planning on status of core businesses with a focus on targets, performance management and highlighting key needs for each rolling quarter.
- Provide information-model as well as analyze & interpret data sets, patterns or trends for regular inputs for strategic business decision making.
- Own the creation and maintenance of reporting dashboards using relevant data and inputs from internal (and external) sources.
- Track financial KPIs across core business functions with the goal to build on performance delivery quarter-on-quarter.
Business Growth and Support:
- Ensure support for other Business Units to ensure alignment with business outlook.
- Support in crafting a succession planning strategy to ensure continuity for critical positions.
- Support the Country Director on business planning activities for special initiatives that may arise from time to time.
- Support Business Heads and/or budget owners on business coordination related needs.
Qualifications
Does this sound like you?
- A relevant Bachelor’s Degree in with up to 3 years of experience as an Executive Assistant, Technical Assistant, Executive Coordinator or in supporting executives in a large/matrixed corporate environment to achieve business goals.
- An MBA or relevant Business-related postgraduate qualifications a plus
- Able to support/coordinate organizational workflow/workstream as required, for achievement of common business goals and objectives.
- Ability to ensure closure for tasks and business initiatives; drawing insights for business growth
- Operationally focused; detailed oriented but able to grasp big picture.
- Experience in operating across multiple time zones and with distributed teams.
- Superb technical and interpersonal skills, including the ability to quickly build rapport with both internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, multi-diverse environment coordinating with multiple stakeholders
General Skills & Attributes:
- Advanced knowledge and use of MS Office, Google Suite and other relevant tools; high level proficiency in MS PowerPoint and Excel use for reports and presentations expected.
- Excellent skills with project management and coordination tools (MS Project, Asana, Slack etc), plus data analysis/reporting tools (Excel, Power BI etc) – a must
- Highly motivated and target driven with a proven track record in delivering tasks in a timely and effective manner
- Excellent communication skills; with a high level of assertiveness and ability to take initiative
- Highly numerate and analytical with an ability to make strategic inputs for driving and achieving business goals
- Responsive with great time management and organizational skills
- Ability to create and deliver presentations tailored to the audience needs
- Relationship management skills and openness to feedback
- A Can-Do attitude with a knack for taking ownership of deliverables
- Experience in consulting, research, or similar field – an added advantage.
Also:
- You are driven to support the delivery of business growth in a new market.
- You have a robust industry network and understand effective stakeholder engagement practices.
- You are an effective planner and have a strong orientation to process
- You build strong relationships based on trust, and are a strong verbal communicator
- You pride your communication skills.
- Most importantly, candidate must fit company spirit where people work smart, play hard, have fun and are dedicated to success.
Application Closing Date
Not Specified.