Technical Assistant to the CEO at Ventures Park

This role provides strategic, technical and administrative support to the CEO with emphasis on research, feasibility assessment, operational review, analysis, and technical documentation. Other expectations for the role include;

• Carry out all research, feasibility assessment and analysis as required by the office of the Chief Executive Officer
• Create technical documentation - including, presentation and proposals as and when required
• Review technical documents forwarded to the office of the Chief Executive Officer and recommend actions points
• Provide business support services as and when required by the office of the CEO
• Review documents on behalf of the CEO, makes updates and corrections with a clear understanding of the CEO’s perspective.
• Acts as an expediter for the CEO with other internal and external stakeholders
• Acts as an expediter for all internal and external stakeholders with the CEO
• Provides input to technical studies/research projects, technical reports, project planning, etc.
• Produces accurate statistics, relevant figures and data for decision making
• Gathers information, elicits requirements and monitors all relevant media trends, topics and channels providing necessary strategic information to the CEO
• Supports Chief Executive Officer with project management, project oversight, status management, task management and support duties
• Advice the CEO to enable him takes vital decisions on technical and non-technical matters.\
• Liaises with external stakeholders on behalf of the CEO
• Schedules and attends meetings (with and on behalf of) and takes minutes with a clear focus on objectives, next steps and progress tracking.
• Follows up on all tasks and projects that report to the office of the CEO and the CEO.
• Liaises with all team leads, departments and units on-behalf of the CEO.
• Maintains a birds-eye view of all on-going projects and activities and provides support to the CEO for effective management of same.
• Prepares daily, weekly, quarterly and annual technical reports.
• Provide customer relationship management support and assists the CEO on managing all high-level customer and stakeholder relationships.
• Receives Internal Memorandum sent to the office of the CEO and handle, follow-up, reply and file accordingly.
• Represent the company with clients, contractors and vendor partners
• High level of confidentiality, decorum and staying power.
• Outstanding competencies in using Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point.
• Knowledge and experience in IT and ICT.
• Excellent presentation, facilitation and communication skills.
• Strong negotiation and contracting skills.
• Must be highly organized with extraordinary attention to detail.
• Excellent customer orientation, entrepreneurial flair, analytical skills, commercial knowledge and business acumen.
• Must demonstrate the ability to work excellently independently or in a team.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

• A minimum of two (2) years’ cognate experience, in a related field or in communications
• Knowledge and experience of corporate culture
• Outstanding leadership and influencing skills.
• Must have the ability to act quickly and pragmatically under pressure to priorities and resolve issues.
• Willingness to work extra hours to achieve excellent results.
• Must possess high levels of confidentiality and information security.
• Strong business ethics and high level of integrity