GM East Africa Administrative Assistant to General Counsel Job in Kenya

GM East Africa, the leading Automotive Company in the East Africa region has the following employment opportunity:-
 

Administrative Assistant to General Counsel 

Ref: LGL/HRBP/01
 

Reporting to the General Counsel, the successful candidate will be responsible for the following functions:-

• Providing high level administrative assistance to the General Counsel and the Legal team, including managing their schedules, prioritizing obligations and activities, preparing and compiling materials for meetings, projects and presentations with followup, maintaining client files, handling travel arrangements, preparing correspondence and memoranda;
• Taking minutes at meetings and providing general assistance during presentations
• Administering the company’s contract management system
• Responsible for timely preparation of expense reports, payment of invoices to law firms and tracking departmental budgets.
• Coordinating internal, external and teleconference meetings for the Legal department.
• Perform general office administrative work and secretarial duties for the Legal department.

For appointment to this position, the successful candidate must have the following qualifications:-

• Bachelors Degree
• At least two years experience in a similar position.
• Ability to work effectively in a team based environment and function as a highly visible professional role model.
• Excellent communication, organization and administrative skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Access and Outlook.
• Administrative experience in a Law firm will be an added advantage.

Please send your application and CV quoting the position reference on both letter and envelope to:

The HR Business Partner, 

General Motors East Africa Ltd, 

Enterprise/Mombasa road,
P. O. Box 30527 – 00100, 

Nairobi

Only qualified candidates will be contacted

Deadline 21st August, 2014