Ferrister Mirembe
Administrative & Executive
Assistant
Your strategic Partner. Driven by clarity. Focused on the best outcome for execs, senior leadership and teams.
With 2 years of direct experience built on a 5 year general background in NGOs, education, and remote work, I am making a deliberate move into long-term remote operations.
I always want to see the best outcome. Of course, the industry demands the best, but when you have a background in social work like I do and you strongly believe that systems, even when complex, can produce the best, you learn to seek out the best. Whether that means figuring out how best a team can survive, how best we present ourselves, or how best we can think and then get things done.
Sifting through complex information for hours does not bother me if it means a bookkeeping process can give us absolute clarity and transparency about the financial health of a company. I not only have to get it done, I want to, and I will.
I am here to act as a strategic partner for you. I am a partner who anticipates, plans, manages team expectations, and handles workloads, which is crucial when leading a team, especially a remote one. I manage competing priorities and close loops so that you do not have to. If you need someone committed to continuous learning, growth, and long-term commitment, then you do not have to look any further.
Take a look around; my experience, skills, and the work I've been doing are all here. I hope they give you a clear enough picture to want to reach out. I'd love to be part of what helps your team move.
I operate as a strategic partner to the executives and senior leaders I support, anticipating needs, managing competing priorities, and closing loops independently.
- Manage calendars, meetings, and scheduling priorities for executives and senior leadership
- Coordinate and confirm calls, virtual meetings, and commitments across multiple time zones
- Identify scheduling conflicts early and help prioritise leadership's time
- Ensure leaders have the documents, background information, and materials they need before every meeting
- Coordinate travel, accommodation, and event logistics
- Maintain and organise executive inboxes
- Track requests, commitments, and deadlines through to completion
- Draft, format, and proofread correspondence, reports, and presentations
- Communicate professionally with staff, partners, vendors, and external stakeholders
- Follow through on promised information so nothing gets overlooked
- Coordinate across departments and distributed teams to keep projects moving
- Track deliverables, open questions, and next steps until resolved
- Sequence overlapping deadlines so priorities don't collide
- Take clear meeting notes and turn discussions into action items
- Maintain organised project files and records
- Prepare reports, presentations, and meeting materials
- Conduct research and organise information for executive review
- Support event, conference, and travel logistics
- Manage donor reporting and compliance documentation
- Handle confidential information with discretion
- Build financial models and reports, including income statements, cash flow, and balance sheets
- Design procurement and inventory tracking systems
- Manage records, documentation, and budget support
- Identify and resolve administrative gaps before they become problems
A selection of real work showing how I think and what I can do. More being added regularly.
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Deeper demonstrations of how I think about systems, operations, and the work behind the work.
Payment details are shared after job negotiation and on request only.
Ferrister joined us as Secretary and Administrative Assistant and immediately brought a level of organisation we had not had before. Within her first month she had designed a full term activity calendar and set up an inventory tracking system that we still use today. She manages our correspondence, handles parent communication, coordinates scheduling, and keeps our records accurate without needing to be reminded. She is reliable, discreet, and genuinely invested in the work. I would recommend her without hesitation for any administrative or coordination role.
I worked with Ferrister across two organisations and she consistently delivered work that went beyond what was asked. Everything she produced was professional, well-structured and she always understood what we were trying to communicate and translated that into materials that genuinely represented us well. She is thorough, creative, respective, positive and adjusts to what is needed. I know she would be of great value and a great addition to any team or executive.