Executive Assistant

**What does the role require?**

Honestly, the role of an Athena Executive Assistant is limitless.

There isn’t a ‘one description fits all’ as the role is wonderfully varied based on our client's needs. Athena EAs, in addition to the below day-to-day requirements, have planned weddings, organized dinner parties, forged new friendships and business relationships, developed new skills like web design, and produced podcasts - and that’s just to name a few.

Day-to-day requirements:

- Liaise, coordinate, and negotiate with external vendors
- Conduct ocular inspections on behalf of the client
- Optimize your client’s time and priorities to help them reach their ambitious goals
- Take ownership and manage calendars and scheduling
- Research and develop plans for your client’s personal and professional growth
- Surprise and delight your client by demonstrating initiative
- Build rapport with your client’s network and team and help to manage these important relationships
- Drive internal and external communications, presentations, reports, and social media

**What is needed to have a successful career as an Athena EA?**
- Must be a resident of Shillong, India
- Excellent command of the English language, both spoken and written
- Working knowledge of Google Suite (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides) and productivity and project management tools/apps
- 3-5 years of experience with leasing preferably of larger commercial/retail/residential properties
- Working knowledge of technical jargon in corporate real estate
- Working knowledge of travel management
- Must be available to travel for work when needed
- Experience/background in interior design/build-out/construction is a plus but not required
- You will need to provide your own device.RAM minimum: 8GB (however 16GB is recommended)

For Laptop: 8th generation (8000 series) Core i5 or better; AMD Ryzen series processors
For Desktop: Ryzen 5 3000 series and above. If Core i3 - 10th generation or higher.
For Mac: Core i5 - 2017 or higher Core i7 - 2016 or higher (not recommended: Core i3)
- Internet connection: 10 Mbps minimum
- Must be open to a hybrid work orientation
- Willingness to work full-time (40 hours/week) at a time that suits your client
- Preferably experienced with online/remote/virtual work, however not essential
- Must be comfortable with liaising and coordinating with external vendors in person or via other means

**Who are we looking for?**

The Athena business is growing and it’s a very exciting time to join (not just because we have an annual conference in beautiful parts of the world to celebrate our success) but because we have created a business that cares about people - and we want to help them to become the best they can be.

We have intentionally set a very high standard for our EAs and our culture is also of a high standard of performance (but so is our fun facto).

We are excited to offer career opportunities to people who:

- Are motivated by impact and driven by wanting to help others
- Embody trust and dependability
- Can tackle complex problems and offer creative solutions
- Take pride in the quality of their work and in constantly improving
- Foster a strong desire to learn and develop
- Have deep emotional and social intelligence

**What do we offer?**

First and foremost, we offer ongoing support through your Athena EA journey. Together with ongoing learning and development opportunities, we have a dynamic network of EAs who connect with one another on a daily basis to brainstorm, share information and assist when help is needed (many of whom are now great friends).

Our global leadership team prides itself on recognizing and rewarding high-performing colleagues and also on building balanced and fulfilling careers within Athena.

**Benefits**:

- Flexible schedule

Schedule:

- Flexible shift
- Monday to Friday