Job Title:   Personal Assistant (PA) to Managing Director  

Organisation: Appliance World Ltd

Duty Station:  Bugolobi, Kampala, Uganda

Reporting to: Managing Director

About US:

Appliance World Ltd (the company) is one of the largest organizations in Uganda dealing in consumer electronics (refrigerators, microwaves, audio products, televisions, and washing machines), commercial air conditioning and mechanical ventilation, computers/network monitors.

Job Summary:   Appliance World Ltd is hiring a Personal Assistant to the Managing Director. This is a role with a lot of pressure as the MD works closely with over 30 people directly and follows up. The role calls for long hours.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Minimum Qualification: Bachelor
• Experience Level: Senior level

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Programming the MD’s daily schedule.
• Seeing that the tasks allocated to other staff are done by the employees on time. Task management is a very important part of your role, and you must daily follow up and ensure that all the employees have done what they are supposed to.
• Applying for and having permits for expatriate staff processed.
• Involving in human resources quite heavily- this fall under the MD.
• Handling tasks that the MD is responsible for directly.
• Ensuring statutory compliance by getting and processing documents on time e.g. payment of Local Service Tax, ensuring the company has a trading license.
• Ensuring that the multitude of reports that the MD needs are given to him on time, whether from you or to be done by others.
• Keeping a detailed ‘tab’ and being on top of all other department operations. The MD will always ask YOU questions about other departments, their problems, their performance; you must KNOW.
• Involving in collection of debt directly. The MD duly controls this.
• Overseeing contracts and renewals.
• Organizing and filing of all the MD’s documents and documents he asks for.
• Involving in preparing tenders as well as monitoring the tendering department.

All interested candidates send their applications via Email to: jobs@applianceworld.co.ug