SUMMARY:
Location: Port Elizabeth
Start Date: 01 October 2025 (or sooner if possible)
Applications close: 31 August 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?
Weâre 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, youâll 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: Youâre 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 âget-it-doneâ attitude
Why Join Us
This is not just another travel brand. Weâre passionate about connecting people to wild placesâand we bring that same spirit to how we work with each other.
Perks & Benefits:Extended December Leave: 2 weeks post-Christmas
Clear Growth Path: Mentoring + performance reviews
NOTES:Â - Valid driver's license
- Clear criminal and credit history
- Valid passport and the preparedness to travel to Botswana if and when required.
If youâre the kind of person who takes pride in keeping things running smoothly, communicates with care, and enjoys supporting a values-led, purpose-driven team, weâd love to hear from you.
POSITION INFO:
Assistant to the Director (Safari Operations)
