Remote Executive Assistant for Founder - Part-Time

Employmate Limited; Cape Town; Remote; ZAR 173,000 - 207,000; Part time

Job summary

Employmate Limited is seeking a Virtual Assistant (Independent Contractor) to support the Founder with daily operations from remote South Africa. Flexible part-time hours (04:00–10:00 SAST) and a monthly salary of R17,000, depending on experience and expertise.

You will coordinate calendars across Brisbane and Cape Town time zones, triage emails, draft replies, prepare agendas, and help with meetings, documents, reports, and basic admin.

Qualifications

• Experience as a Virtual Assistant, Executive Assistant, Personal Assistant or similar.
• Strong written English. You can draft a professional email that needs no rewriting.
• Excellent organisation and time management across competing priorities
• Strong attention to detail and comfort working independently with limited supervision
• Confidence with Microsoft 365 / Google Workspace and other online tools, and the ability to pick up new systems quickly
• A genuine interest in women's sport, girls' football or African sporting communities

Responsibilities

• Support Founder across daily operations
• Manage the Founder's calendar, appointments and meetings across Brisbane and Cape Town timezones
• Triage inbox and draft replies for approval
• Prepare agendas, take notes and follow up on actions after meetings
• Track correspondence with partners, sponsors, clubs and community stakeholders
• Maintain partnership records, agreements and key dates in one place
• Prepare documents, reports, presentations and correspondence
• Support Season One logistics, match days and events from a coordination point of view
• Coordinate tasks and deadlines across projects and people on the ground
• Keep spreadsheets, records and internal documentation accurate and current
• Complete data entry, research and general administrative tasks
• Support scheduling and basic admin for social media (content sits with another role)
• Spot ways to improve how we organise and run things, and put them in place
• safeguarding, confidentiality and representation

Skills

VA/EA experience

English writing

Organization

Attention to detail

Microsoft 365

Google Workspace

Sport interest

Tools

Microsoft 365

Google Workspace

Job description

Employmate Limited is seeking a Virtual Assistant (Independent Contractor) to support the Founder with daily operations from remote South Africa. Flexible part-time hours (04:00–10:00 SAST) and a monthly salary of R17,000, depending on experience and expertise.

You will coordinate calendars across Brisbane and Cape Town time zones, triage emails, draft replies, prepare agendas, and help with meetings, documents, reports, and basic admin.