Executive Assistant

Full Time 1 day ago Lusaka, Lusaka, Zambia

Employment Information

We are seeking a highly capable, proactive, and relationship-focused Executive Assistant to provide direct support to senior executive leadership across global nonprofit initiatives, strategic partnerships, donor relationships, and organizational development.


Responsibilities:

  • Manage and prioritize the executive's calendar, meetings, calls, appointments, and commitments.
  • Coordinate complex schedules involving multiple time zones and international stakeholders.
  • Prepare and organize daily and weekly priorities.
  • Anticipate scheduling needs, conflicts, deadlines, and required follow-ups.
  • Protect executive focus by filtering requests and identifying matters requiring immediate attention.
  • Track ongoing relationships and conversations with donors, foundations, business leaders, executives, partners, and organizational leaders.
  • Coordinate timely follow-up after meetings, introductions, events, and international travel.
  • Maintain accurate relationship notes, action items, commitments, and next steps.
  • Prepare executive leadership for meetings by providing relevant background information, relationship history, and key discussion points.
  • Draft professional emails, meeting follow-ups, executive correspondence, updates, and donor communications.
  • Communicate with professionalism, warmth, and strong emotional intelligence.
  • Learn and accurately reflect the executive's communication style and tone.
  • Support the preparation of presentations, proposals, reports, briefing materials, and partner updates.
  • Facilitate clear communication between executive leadership, internal teams, and external stakeholders.
  • Support strategic projects involving partnerships, fundraising, events, international programs, and organizational growth.
  • Track project commitments, deadlines, decisions, action items, and outstanding deliverables.
  • Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements.
  • Organize logistics for partner visits, executive gatherings, meetings, and strategic events.
  • Ensure executive leadership is appropriately prepared ahead of travel, meetings, and important engagements.
  • Maintain accurate information within CRM and organizational systems.
  • Develop and improve administrative workflows and repeatable processes.
  • Identify opportunities to use technology and digital tools to improve executive productivity.


Requirements:

  • Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, Communications, International Relations, Project Management, or a related field is preferred.
  • Minimum 5+ years of experience supporting senior executives, founders, nonprofit leaders, or other senior leadership is preferred.
  • Demonstrated experience managing complex executive calendars and competing priorities.
  • Experience coordinating senior-level meetings, stakeholder relationships, projects, and executive communications.
  • Experience supporting executives working across multiple locations or international time zones is advantageous.
  • Experience within nonprofit organizations, philanthropy, donor relations, ministry, international programs, or global organizations is considered an asset.


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Executive Assistant
Zimworx
1 Vacancy - Full Time
Lusaka, Lusaka, Zambia, Zambia
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