Spurt - Our client is an experienced leader and entrepreneur with about 20 years top management experience in the financial services sector in Nigeria. He has held top level positions in insurance, asset management and pension fund management in Nigeria. He is widely regarded as a thought leader in a range of fields in sub-Saharan Africa including private equity, infrastructure, real estate, and venture capital. He leads one of the top 5 PFAs in Nigeria.
They are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Chief Of Staff
Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-time
Description
- We are keen on finding a champion and supportive force for our client. The ideal person for the job will be a proactive problem solver with exceptional communication skills and a meticulous attention to detail who has demonstrated success leading teams to successfully execute within the finance industry.
- They will be relied upon for flexibility and foresight as well as strategy and execution, all the while maintaining confidences related to high-level systems and operations. If that sounds like you, read on!
About the Role
- You must demonstrate experience in handling a wide range of administrative and personal related tasks independently with little or no supervision.
- You must be a highly resourceful team-player, who is comfortable working independently in a fast-paced environment, or under pressure, while remaining flexible, proactive, and efficient.
- You must demonstrate integrity and confidentiality at all times.
- You must possess strong written and verbal communication skills and be adept at both administrative and leadership tasks.
- You will often be expected to exercise good judgment to maintain a productive balance among multiple priorities.
- As Chief of Staff, you will be an instrumental part of the Chief Executive's team and will be expected to provide invaluable execution support for both day-to-day tasks and high level strategic priorities.
Responsibilities
- Collaborating with executive team members to determine and prioritize business strategies.
- Managing the Chief Executive’s schedule, scheduling meetings and planning travel
- Providing department leaders with recommendations and consultation to improve teamwork.
- Planning, coordinating and keeping contents of a meeting focused.
- Determining key performance indicators and how to measure team performance.
- Providing tactical support to implement ideas.
- Working with leadership to deliver, monitor and communicate progress towards goals.
- Responding to inquiries on behalf of the Chief Executive
- Overseeing strategic business initiatives from ideation to implementation
- Identifying and helping solve core problems or opportunities within business processes.
- Providing Chief Executive and other senior leaders with insight and analysis on the company’s operations
- Assessing risk when business decisions are made.
- Providing support and oversight for special projects and initiatives
- Planning, coordinating and leading meetings and workshops.
- Identifying and providing recommendations on improvements across the organisation
- Executing documents and proposals as requested and presentation in various formats.
- Creating and managing schedules for household staff, food menus and other related home affairs
- Improving the company’s ongoing processes and organising procedures to ensure optimal efficiency and productivity.
- Designing, reviewing and improving organisational structure and helping address ongoing problems.
Key Result Areas:
- Quality of research and implementation support data provided to the client.
- Quality of databases, record-keeping and actionable information provided to the client.
- Rate of delivery and adherence to deadlines
- Number of successfully organised events and speaking engagements
- Level of satisfaction and performance of client
- Ability to effectively organise and manage schedule, organise meetings and engagements.
- Achievement of high-quality personal branding for the client
- Supportive ownership of all client deliverables and performance goals
- Solution-oriented analysis of effectiveness and development initiatives to address shortfalls.
Work Modalities:
- You will be required to report to the office or relevant locations as stipulated by the client five (5) days a week between Mondays and Fridays.
- The applicant must be willing and flexible to engage in out of office tasks as required.
Experience / Qualifications
- An advanced Degree such as MBA, Master's or PhD from a reputable university
- A minimum of 3 years of experience in a technical role, including experience working with senior management
- Experience overseeing budgets and expenses, as well as developing internal processes and filing systems for management of above.
- Familiarity with basic principles of business management and entrepreneurship
- Experience tracking multiple projects using software tools.
- Familiarity with critical social media platforms such as LinkedIn, Medium and Twitter
- Exposure or context for global standards and work environments
- Excellent oral and technical communication skills
Skills:
- Proficiency in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office suite, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, as well as the Google Suite of products – Sheets, Calendar, Docs, Slides, etc. with aptitude to learn new software and systems.
- Possessing of technical skills required to create proposals and design solutions that demonstrate exceptional research, drafting and writing skills.
- Ability to multitask coupled with flexibility and adaptability given the volatility of emerging market startup environments.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including proven success in ability to present ideas and concepts effectively and persuasively.
- Strong business/commercial acumen in addition to technical business development skills
- Ability to build relationships across the business and external contacts. Put differently, a capacity to build strong client relationships and demonstrate good people engagement skills.
- Superb presentation as well as verbal and written communication skills
- Exceptional problem-solving and decision-making skills with the ability to filter matters that need the urgent attention of your principal.
- Excellent organisational skills and schedule management, with an ability to think proactively and prioritise work effectively.
- Strong time-management skills and the ability to organise and coordinate multiple projects at once.
- Ability to be thorough and precise when accomplishing a task, with concern for all aspects of the job involved.
Desired Traits:
- Discrete and trustworthy, as you will often be a party to confidential information.
- Demonstrate ownership of all areas of work with a results-driven attitude, i.e., multitask, meet deadlines, identify goals and priorities and complete complex assignments with minimal direction.
- Motivated, optimistic, and passionate
- Obsessive attention to detail, responsive communication, thoughtful problem-solving and an execution mindset; zero inbox mentality is strongly preferred.
- A critical thinker, who is curious, intuitive and pays attention to detail.
- Impeccable work ethic, able to multitask and thrive working across multiple projects in a fast-paced environment.
- Ability to maintain professional demeanour at all times, in a busy, high stress environment.
- Play well with others and demonstrate team leadership put differently, a strong ability to build relationships and trust as part of a small team.
- Able to work autonomously with out-of-box thinking and goal-oriented actions.
- Willingness to be flexible and nimble, including availability to work flexible hours as needed.
Compensation
- The role is competitively compensated in naira.
- The client will provide benefits in line with the standards of the role.
- The client will also provide benefits mandated by Lagos State law.
Application Closing Date
4th April, 2023.
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