Personal Assistant (PA)

Person Specification:

Education: Bachelor’s degree holder, recognized administrative qualification or any professional accreditation
is preferred.

Experience: At least 2 years experience in the same field or similar role.

Some competencies required for this role are as follows;
• Strong and confident communicator
• Understand the importance of team player
• Pays great attention to detail
• Fluent in English language both written and verbally
• Fluent is Arabic is an advantage
• Tenacious and working to tight deadlines
• Understand the need for urgency
• Highly organized
• Proficient user of the Microsoft office suite especially Excel, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint


Commitment to Safeguarding and Child Protection:
Taaleem is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. At Taaleem, we hold ourselves to a high standard of effective practices in relation to child protection, and we are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. We expect all staff to share this commitment. Successful applicants will be subject to various background checks including receipt of references, proof of relevant qualifications,
identification, and police checks, including overseas checks

Primary Job Purpose:

Key Accountabilities:

The successful candidate for this role will be an experienced administrator with the desire to take
on extra responsibility to create variance in their day-to-day duties. Some of these duties are, but not
limited to the following:
• Be one of the main liaisons between ADEK, Government agencies and the Principal
• Ensure that the Principal is briefed regularly on events and important information
• Assist in managing the Principal’s diary including booking appointments and meetings
• Manage the school events calendar and support the planning and set up of events
• Prepare documents for meetings and take the meeting minutes as required
• Produce reports, documents and translations as and when required
• Communicate important information to parents and the school community including
producing newsletters