Executive Assistant to the CEO, Africa

About This Opportunity

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai is representing a confidential autonomous logistics organization with operations across Africa. We are seeking an Executive Assistant to support the CEO leading their Africa business unit.

This is not a traditional administrative role. You will sit close to the center of the Africa business, helping the CEO stay focused, prepared, and effective across executive meetings, operational priorities, government engagements, travel, recruiting, communications, and cross-functional initiatives.

The right person is highly organized, proactive, calm under pressure, and comfortable operating with a high degree of autonomy. You can anticipate needs before they're articulated, bring structure to ambiguity, and ensure important details and follow-ups never get lost.

Responsibilities

• Partner directly with the CEO to manage calendar, priorities, commitments, and operating cadence across Africa
• Own complex calendar management with strong business judgment, ensuring the CEO's time is focused on highest-impact priorities, decisions, relationships, and engagements
• Prepare the CEO for meetings by gathering agendas, context, briefing materials, key decisions, open questions, stakeholders, and follow-up items
• Coordinate executive meetings, leadership forums, operational reviews, external engagements, and other critical business meetings
• Track follow-ups and commitments across meetings and workstreams, ensuring decisions, owners, deadlines, and next steps are clearly captured and closed out
• Help manage the CEO's internal and external relationships by ensuring timely responses, thoughtful preparation, and strong follow-through
• Coordinate complex domestic and international travel, including itineraries, visas, logistics, meeting schedules, and contingency planning
• Support engagements with government officials, healthcare partners, customers, investors, and other external stakeholders
• Support recruiting and hiring activities, including interview scheduling, candidate coordination, debriefs, and confidential follow-up
• Assist with preparation of presentations, briefing documents, meeting notes, and executive communications
• Help the CEO stay organized across multiple priorities, surfacing what requires attention and proactively flagging upcoming deadlines, risks, and conflicts
• Represent the CEO with professionalism, warmth, discretion, and sound judgment in interactions internally and externally
• Proactively identify ways to improve how the CEO's time, information, meetings, and follow-through are managed
• Act as a trusted partner to the CEO and an effective connector across the Africa leadership team and broader organization

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of experience as an Executive Assistant, ideally supporting a CEO, executive, country leader, general manager, or other senior leader in a fast-paced organization
• Exceptional judgment and discretion, particularly when handling confidential executive, people, commercial, government, and operational information
• Excellent calendar, meeting, travel, and logistics management skills in a high-velocity environment with constantly shifting priorities
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and professionally with senior internal and external stakeholders
• High ownership and follow-through—you notice dropped balls, close loops, and keep important work moving without needing constant direction
• Strong prioritization instincts and the ability to protect executive focus while remaining responsive to urgent and important business needs
• Comfort operating across multiple countries, cultures, and time zones
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, with a high bar for preparation, accuracy, and reliability
• Ability to anticipate needs, identify potential issues early, and proactively solve problems before they become obstacles
• Confidence working with senior executives, government stakeholders, customers, partners, employees, and cross-functional teams
• A service-oriented mindset with backbone—you are helpful, thoughtful, and proactive, while also comfortable protecting priorities, pushing for clarity, and escalating when needed
• Energy, resilience, and enthusiasm for supporting a leader whose work directly contributes to growth and impact across Africa

How We Work With You

Candidates apply through Get A Job.ai. Our recruiting team will conduct an initial screen to understand your background and match against our client's requirements. If there's a strong fit, we will submit your profile to the client for consideration. Please do not attempt to contact the client directly, as all communication and coordination will be managed through our talent team to ensure a professional and streamlined process.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process based on experience and location.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Get A Job.ai is committed to equal employment opportunity. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under applicable law.