Private PA (Arabic Speaking)

Job description / Role

Private PA (Arabic Speaking) - Dubai

This is a pure Private PA role and supports a UHNWI with extensive business interests across the GCC region and into Europe. This role will work directly for the firm’s CEO and manage and maintain schedules, handle complex travel arrangements, and help to maintain homes in and outside the country. Significant responsibility is entrusted to this individual. This person will assist the CEO in managing personal and business scheduling, organizational matters, and travel. Phone availability is required and must be able to respond to emails within 60 minutes on evenings and weekends.

Responsibilities may including coordinating complex travel arrangements involving large groups of people, assisting in general operational functions for the firm and maintaining very complex calendars and event schedules for business and personal events. There will also be extensive property and portfolio management and you will required to oversee the Dubai household management as well as administer service requirements for the house. Additionally, manage petty cash, maintenance etc as well as being responsible for a team of ten staff members (sick leave, holiday pay, tickets home, salaries, hiring, visas, medical insurance etc.) You will be responsible also management of bank accounts, car fleet management and travel arrangements for the family via the families’ private jet or charter airlines.

Requirements

The successful candidate will have outstanding analytical, operational, and organizational skills, be highly proficient in Microsoft Office and be degree educated. Excellent linguistic skills in both Arabic and English are paramount.

About the Company

Irwin & Dow was established in 2013 to provide clients with a unique and highly personalised recruitment service, providing the very top calibre of candidates across the business support and secretarial function.

We provide a refreshing approach, working in close partnership with clients and candidates across diverse industry sectors; large MNC’s, government & semi -government entities, SME’s, local businesses and in the start-up and UHNWI support framework.

Great people equal great success: all our candidates are interviewed personally by a member of the team, and we develop longstanding and in-depth relationships with our clients, understanding their corporate culture and goals to ensure a successful outcome for both parties.

Our values of discretion and diplomacy are paramount, and we are pleased to be a partner of choice for clients and candidates.