Executive to CEO | SAST

1 month ago
Full-time
Lead
Project and Program Management

VirtuHire

VirtuHire is a staffing and recruiting company focused on helping businesses hire remote South African talent. It offers hiring support and employee management services including onboarding, payroll, compliance, and employer-of-record support.

Staffing / Recruiting
11-50
Founded 2019

Description

  • Provide strategic, operational, and executive support to the CEO across commercial, governance, operational, and social-impact priorities.
  • Prepare briefings, analysis, recommendations, action trackers, progress reports, and executive summaries.
  • Coordinate cross-functional projects involving operations, finance, procurement, legal teams, and external advisors.
  • Track milestones, deliverables, accountability, and follow-through across multiple concurrent workstreams.
  • Manage relationships with internal teams, clients, regulators, funders, suppliers, NGOs, donors, community leaders, and advisors.
  • Represent the CEO in selected internal and external forums and support sensitive stakeholder engagements.
  • Launch and operationalize the family trust’s foundation and coordinate CSI initiatives in the Karoo.
  • Develop and manage education, skills development, health, livelihoods, community resilience, eco-tourism, and conservation projects.
  • Manage project plans, budgets, partners, reporting, governance, impact measurement, and sustainability for foundation initiatives.
  • Manage complex diaries, travel, logistics, commercial documents, presentations, research, and executive processes while maintaining confidentiality.

Requirements

  • 8–10+ years of experience in a senior Executive Assistant, Chief of Staff, or equivalent C-suite support role.
  • Experience in complex, project-driven environments such as engineering, infrastructure, manufacturing, private equity, or similar is advantageous.
  • Proven project management and delivery experience across commercial and social-impact initiatives.
  • Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder projects, preferably including CSI, foundation, or community-based initiatives.
  • Exposure to board, trust, donor, or governance environments is beneficial.
  • Advanced business acumen with a strong execution focus and ability to translate complexity into clear action.
  • Exceptional organisation, prioritisation, coordination, analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving skills.
  • Highly developed interpersonal, stakeholder-engagement, written, and executive-level verbal communication abilities.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
  • Relevant tertiary qualification in business, commerce, management, development studies, or a related field is preferred.
  • Ability to remain calm, discreet, resilient, and solutions-oriented in high-pressure environments.

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