Receptionist / Administrator

Job description / Role

Receptionist / Administrator - Abu Dhabi

Our client is an international firm, with a strong presence in the Middle East. Delivering solutions and creating opportunities, this is an innovative company providing a bespoke service to public and private institutions, operating in critical sectors of the global economy. An exciting opportunity has arisen to join this firm, where geographic, political and practice-driven barriers have been removed.

We are actively seeking a Receptionist / Administrator for our client’s offices in Abu Dhabi. The role effectively manages all the correspondence for the office and requires accurate and timely input of information into the database.

Reporting into the Office Manager, the role is based at the Reception and the successful applicant will be the “face” and the “voice” of the company and must ensure all calls and visitors to the office are met with courtesy and professionalism. Strong organizational skills will be required to manage meeting room requests and coordinate travel bookings for the team.

Requirements

The main requirements for this role is someone with excellent communication and customer service skills and teamwork ability. This person will work alone in the front of house role so they need to be a self-starter and prepared for varying degrees of busyness. Our client would prefer a mature candidate and the salary is 16k.

The person currently in the role is sadly leaving to return to their home country and will be leaving some big shoes to fill. At least two years prior experience in a front office position, managing administrative responsibilities, is required, coupled with local experience is mandatory. Candidates should be highly presented with a very corporate approach who can act as a role model and ambassador for the firm.

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.