Assistant to the Director

SUMMARY:
Location: Port Elizabeth
Start Date: July 2025 (preferable)
Applications close: 14 July 2025. Upload a comprehensive 2-3 page CV that highlights your skills as they relate to this role by clicking on the APPLY button at the bottom of the page.

Are you a natural organiser, reliable self-starter, and confident communicator?
We’re looking for a high-functioning, detail-driven Assistant to the Director who can confidently manage a wide range of support tasks in a fast-paced travel and hospitality environment.
As the right-hand to the Director, you’ll play a key role in managing reservations data, executing brand and marketing initiatives, and ensuring the operational flow of a leading African safari travel brand.

Your Core Responsibilities

• Maintain booking reports and align reservations with operations
• Create and update rate sheets, lodge fact sheets, and visual presentations
• Support the brand online: manage website updates, post blogs, and maintain social media
• Coordinate familiarisation trips and communicate with travel agents
• Assist with trade show preparation, reporting, and administrative support
• Organise files, assets, and business documents on Google Drive
• Help execute our brand presence: from merchandise and signage to storytelling through design and media
• Provide weekend cover for the Director once a month

What You Bring

• Excellent administrative, organisational, and time management skills
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities
• Tech confidence: You’re at ease navigating digital tools like Google Drive, Canva, Wix, Mailchimp, MS Word, PowerPoint/Keynote, and Outlook
• A self-motivated approach with the ability to work independently
• Professionalism, accuracy, and a flexible “get-it-done” attitude

Why Join Us

• Valid driver's license
• Clear criminal and credit history
• Valid passport and the preparedness to travel to Botswana if and when required.

POSITION INFO:
Assistant to the Director