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This position reports to: HeadofCosec
Responsible for organizing meetings and accurately recording meeting deliberations, decisions, and action items, ensuring a clear and concise record of the meeting.
Organize meetings according to the cadence agreed or as requested by the relevant chairpersons.
Attending meetings: Actively participate in meetings, listening attentively and observing discussions.
Taking thorough notes: Clearly and concisely capture key points, discussions, decisions, and action items.
Preparing minutes: Draft the minutes, ensuring accuracy, clarity, and completeness.
Distributing minutes: Circulate the minutes to meeting attendees or relevant parties within the turnaround time.
Collaborating with meeting requestor: Work with the requestor to understand the objectives, context, and desired outcomes of meetings.
Maintaining records: Keep accurate records of all meeting minutes and related documents, ensuring proper safekeeping and ease of future retrieval.
Providing support: Offer assistance with other administrative tasks as needed.
- A bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Communications, or a related field, with 3 to 5 years of related working experience.
- High proficiency in written and spoken English.
- Previous experience in informal minutes taking, preferably for a Board or Committee, or similar high-level meetings.
- Strong active listening skills: The ability to attentively listen to and understand discussions, and to capture and summarize complex discussions accurately.
- Note-taking proficiency: Skills in efficient note-taking techniques, such as shorthand or bullet points.
- Writing skills: Ability to write clearly, concisely, and accurately.
- Organizational skills: Ability to organize information and prepare well-structured minutes.
- Communication skills: Ability to communicate effectively with attendees.
- Attention to detail: Accuracy in capturing information and preparing minutes.
- Time management: Ability to meet deadlines for preparing and distributing minutes.
- Ability to work within tight timescales, think on your feet, solve problems, and work calmly, professionally, and positively in a busy environment.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality at all times and handle confidential data in a sensitive manner.
- Ability to work effectively and positively with team members, using initiative when required.
- Ability to work without direct supervision.
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