Receptionist/Administrative assistant
Job category: Receptionist/Administrative assistant
Job type: 12 month fixed-term contract
Location: Waterfall
Start date: ASAP
Key Responsibilities to include:
- Frontline Reception: Greet and welcome visitors in a warm, professional manner
- Switchboard & Calls: Answer, screen, and direct incoming calls promptly and accurately
- Messages & Enquiries: Take messages and handle general telephonic and email enquiries
- Visitor Management: Maintain visitor logs
- Meeting Coordination: Manage boardroom bookings, diary notifications, and refreshments
- Communication: Distribute internal notices and assist with general communication between departments
- Diary Management for Directors
- Administrative Duties for Directors
- Assisting the finance department with general administrative duties when needed
- General Administration and Housekeeping duties
- Travel bookings, Visa Applications, Passport Applications
- Filing and Archiving
- Office Maintenance and Tidiness
- To enhance the working environment to ensure efficiency and effectiveness
- Manage incoming and outgoing mail and courier services
- Accepting general deliveries and informing the relevant department heads/ staff of department specific deliveries
- Management and record keeping of Couriers + third party shipments
- Office Presentation: Ensure the reception area and meeting rooms are clean, tidy, and welcoming at all times
Minimum Criteria and Requirements of Applicants:
- Matric; additional qualification as a Receptionist or Administrative Assistant (advantageous)
- Minimum of 5 years’ hands-on reception administrative support experience
- Advanced knowledge of Word and Excel
- Excellent Verbal and Written Communication skills
- Impeccable record keeping processes
- Calm under pressure
- Attention to detail is a must
- Ability to be resourceful and proactive when issues arise
- Flexible, Self-motivated, Organized, Proactive
- Be able to follow through on a variety of routine administrative tasks and duties to assist the directors and office manager with their day-to-day activities
- A commitment to providing excellent management and client service through efficiency and quality of work
- Ability to work independently and in collaborative team environment
- Sufficiently experienced to resolve problems and to make decisions when required
- Build working relationships in office and with clients
- Sets a positive example and displays visible loyalty to the company