Bilingual Executive Secretary (Female)

Job description / Role

Our client is a consultancy firm which has been retained by the Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia to deliver a major training initiative. Reporting the Managing Director, the Executive Secretary will hold a coordinating role between senior management team of the company, its stakeholders, and the Ministry, and will provide on-going support for activities related to the training initiative.

The successful candidate will build and maintain the relationship between all key stakeholders as well as performing general secretarial office duties including:
- Coordinating meetings
- Taking minutes
- Writing / responding emails
- Working with Excel spreadsheets
- Assist with English / Arabic translation

Requirements

Personal Specification:
- Female
- Position and deployment is for a single person
- Age: 23-30

Skills:
- Fully bilingual English/Arabic written and spoken
- Proven work experience preferably within the Learning and Development sector
- Excellent client-facing and internal communication skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking skills
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office - Including Word, Excel, PowerPoint

Attributes:
- Able to manage multiple stakeholders and build long-standing relationships based on trust and integrity
- Energy and commitment to the business goals
- Ability to navigate commercial and organizational ambiguity
- Ability to recognize opportunities and risk and respond quickly to situations
- Able to develop key relationships within the organization, communicating appropriately with both internal and external stakeholders maximizing engagement
- Motivated and passionate about delivering high quality output
- Able to demonstrate strong organizational, planning and time management skills
- Ability to thrive in a team environment

Key terms:
- Title: Executive Secretary- MoH Health Graduate Program 2017
- Residence visa (Iqama) provided
- Start date: Immediate deployment –after July 2nd 2017. Initial 1 year contract
- Salary: 3,000 - 3,500 USD per month
- Accommodation (1 bed serviced apartment) in Riyadh center
- All Saudi public holidays plus paid leave per contract
- Two return economy tickets per tenure from home country to Riyadh including deployment
- Group medical insurance plan
- Personal and travel insurance cover
- End of service bonus and gratuity payment due under KSA labor law

About the Company

Arddel Consulting has offices in London, UK and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Our core business is to provide a full range of talent consulting services for the education sector (private and public) in the Middle East.

Arddel Consulting specialises in bringing talented professionals to fill appropriate vacancies in the Middle East. Our founding partners have over 25 years’ experience working and living in the region, specifically the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Iraq. Together we have successfully recruited hundreds of professionals for employers across the GCC and beyond.

We differentiate ourselves by offering job seekers a friendly, responsive and informed service that will find the right role for you. We provide clear, straightforward and honest information and advice about the countries that we source candidates for and the positions that we are seeking to fill.

We strive to foster your talent and help you to build and develop your career in this exciting region of the world.

Our aim is to give you a welcoming, approachable and fun experience while helping you make the right choice in the next stage of your professional life.