Executive Coordinator at Husk Power Systems

Role Summary

• Husk is 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:

• 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.