MSA Outsourcing Solutions

Executive Assistant

MSA Outsourcing Solutions  •  Johannesburg, ZA (Onsite)  •  19 hours ago
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Job Description

We are seeking a highly organised and proactive Executive / Personal Assistant professional to work closely with the Director, providing high-level administrative, operational, and personal support across his business, school board, and advisory commitments.

The role goes beyond traditional diary management. It requires someone who can proactively follow up with stakeholders, coordinate reporting, prepare decision-ready briefs, track delegated actions, and ensure that priorities are progressed to completion. The ideal candidate is discreet, persistent, confident managing senior stakeholders, and able to bring structure to a fast-moving and varied workload.

Requirements

  • Manage the Director’s calendar, correspondence, and competing priorities across business, school board, and advisory commitments.
  • Maintain a live tracker of outstanding tasks, decisions, and follow-ups, ensuring actions are completed within agreed deadlines.
  • Proactively liaise with staff, clients, board members, attorneys, and external stakeholders to obtain updates and close open items.
  • Coordinate weekly and monthly reporting from department heads, reviewing submissions and summarising key points requiring the Director’s attention.
  • Prepare agendas, meeting materials, structured briefs, and action plans to support informed and timely decision-making.
  • Track decisions and delegated responsibilities, ensuring they are communicated and followed through to completion.
  • Support school board administration, including correspondence, meeting coordination, documentation, and action-item tracking.
  • Draft, format, and manage formal business, board, mediation, and advisory correspondence with a high level of accuracy and discretion.
  • Maintain confidential, well-organised records and track deadlines across business, legal, and personal matters.
  • Coordinate personal appointments, travel, family logistics, and other administrative tasks as required.
  • Support ad hoc projects and cross-departmental initiatives, ensuring priorities remain organised and on track.

Requirements

  • 5+ years’ experience in an executive assistant, chief of staff, senior administrator, or similar role supporting a founder, executive, or senior professional.
  • Proven ability to manage upward and coordinate confidently with senior stakeholders.
  • Strong follow-up and organisational skills, with experience managing trackers, deadlines, action items, and reporting schedules.
  • Excellent written and verbal English, with the ability to draft professional correspondence, formal letters, and meeting documentation.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn complex information into clear summaries and actionable plans.
  • High proficiency in Microsoft 365, particularly Outlook, Word, Excel, and Teams.
  • Ability to manage confidential business, legal, personal, and family matters with absolute discretion.
  • Excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
  • Fully office-based availability in Houghton, Johannesburg.
  • Flexibility to accommodate key deadlines, meetings, and events when required.
MSA Outsourcing Solutions

About MSA Outsourcing Solutions

Lower your staffing costs, not your dreams!

If you’re a growing business, you’re likely bearing the brunt of the staffing shortages. You’re trapped in a quandary: you can’t afford to match the exorbitant salary demands of office workers, but you need to hire to operate and expand.

We believe that South Africa is the ideal place to hire virtual employees due to the combination of three factors: a high unemployment rate, high tertiary education levels, and superior native spoken and written English communication skills.

However, for virtual remote staffing to be worthwhile, and sustainable, you need on-the-ground management and robust oversight. Without that, your remote staff ends up being more headache than they’re worth. That’s why we’re not a broker or recruitment company outsourcing solution. We’re your complete remote back office, where employees become integral, reliable members of your team, helping you carry out your operational needs at the highest level.

Our unique value is built on two core pillars:

● Who we hire. We don’t match you up with existing agents. Instead, we recruit exclusively for your job, ensuring your employees have the ideal skills and experience.

We use a rigorous multi-step screening and filtering process that includes in-person interviews, skills tests, and aptitude assessments. And, once

we’ve shortlisted the top candidates, you hold interviews.

You always have the final say in who joins your team.

How we manage.

We’re not only dedicated to recruiting the top talent for your needs. We’re just as dedicated to strong oversight to ensure they’re meeting targets and achieving their goals.

All our staff work from our central office, under the keen supervision of our astute management team that ensures they’re hitting their KPIs at the standards you require.

You get the flexibility to grow your business as fast as you need, without any of the exorbitant payroll costs & management hassles that you’d encounter if you hired locally.

Industry
Consulting & Advisory
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Johannesburg, ZA
Year Founded
Unknown
Website
msaos.com
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