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About the Role
We are recruiting a Personal Assistant for a leading UHNW businessman in Dubai. The role provides strategic operational support, travel management, and family affairs management. Candidates must have English as first language, experience in private family support, and comfort engaging with UHNW individuals.
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Responsibilities
- Provide strategic operational support to the principal
- Manage all personal travel for the family, including researching holidays and managing overseas properties
- Handle full property maintenance and household management
- Strategically manage ongoing personal projects for the principal
- Provide support to the principal's immediate family members
- Work alongside the Office Manager in the private office
Requirements
- English must be your first language
- Experience in private family support and understanding of the nuances of the role
- Comfortable engaging with UHNW individuals and providing high levels of service
- High achiever, ambitious, and wanting to develop
- Excellent attention to detail and time management
- French language advantageous
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The Role
- Irwin & Dow are recruiting a Personal Assistant for our client, a leading UHNW businessman in the region.
- The role will provide the highest level of strategic operational support, occasional travel and management of the family’s personal affairs.
- The role reports to the Chief of Staff and works alongside the Office Manager in the private office of the principal.
- The role will be based predominantly in the office but will require being present in the Household on occasion and will manage all the personal requests for the family.
Responsibilities
- Manage all the personal travel for the family, researching holidays and managing overseas properties.
- On the ground here, there will be full property maintenance and household management, plus strategic management of ongoing personal projects for the principal.
- There will be an element of support to the wider family, but this will be limited; focus will be on the principal’s immediate family members.
Requirements
- We are seeking a high achiever, someone who is ambitious and wants to develop within the group.
- The Chief of Staff is very experienced with a strong background in the region and will be a superb mentor, assisting the PA to grow and develop in this role.
- Principle is a very intelligent man, who is driven with exacting standards in terms of attention to detail and time management.
- We are seeking candidates who specifically enjoy the elements of private family support and understand the nuances of the role.
- English must be your first language, (French would also be advantageous) and you should be comfortable in engaging with the UHNW, taking pride in providing the highest levels of service.
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 MNCs, government & semi government entities, SMEs, 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.
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