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They do not slow down. Companies use RooCruit to find experienced Executive Assistants in South Africa who give founders, directors, and senior leaders their time back, handling the operational and administrative load that consumes hours every day and rarely gets done by anyone else, whilst saving up to **50% on salaries** compared to hiring locally in the UK or US. We have recorded video interviews with a library of executive assistants actively looking for part-time and full-time remote work from **£10 – $12 per hour**. ## What an Executive Assistant does An Executive Assistant is responsible for protecting the time, focus, and effectiveness of the person they support. That means managing a calendar that would otherwise eat the morning before the working day has started, handling correspondence and communications that do not need the executive's direct involvement, organising travel and logistics, preparing materials for meetings, managing the flow of information and tasks across the business, and dealing with the constant stream of smaller decisions and administrative demands that accumulate around a senior role. What businesses consistently underestimate is how much of a senior leader's day disappears into work that someone else could do. Research suggests that executives spend a significant portion of their working week on tasks that do not require their specific expertise or judgement. That is not just a personal productivity problem. It is a commercial one. Every hour a founder or director spends booking travel, chasing invoices, or reorganising a meeting is an hour not spent on the decisions and relationships that actually move the business forward. A strong Executive Assistant does not just clear the inbox and manage the diary. They develop a deep understanding of how the person they support thinks, what their priorities are, and how they like to work. Over time that understanding allows them to anticipate needs, make sensible decisions without being asked, and act as a genuine extension of the executive in ways that save time and reduce the cognitive load of running a business. ## Hire an Executive Assistant dedicated to your business The value of an Executive Assistant compounds with time. The first few weeks involve getting across the systems, the contacts, the preferences, and the context. By month three, a good EA is anticipating what is needed before it is asked for. By month six, the thought of operating without them is uncomfortable. That accumulation of knowledge and context does not survive a handover. An EA who knows that you prefer morning calls kept to thirty minutes, that a particular client needs careful handling, and that Thursday afternoons are protected for deep work is worth significantly more than one who is still asking those questions. When you hire through RooCruit, you get one Executive Assistant who builds that understanding over time and stays with you. There is no temp agency sending a different person each month, no VA platform where your work gets distributed across a team, and no starting the context-building process from scratch every time the arrangement changes. The assistant you start with is the assistant you keep. ## How RooCruit can help you find an Executive Assistant fast Hiring an Executive Assistant is a particularly personal decision. This is someone who will have visibility of your calendar, your correspondence, your commitments, and in many cases your priorities and pressures in a way that few other hires do. How they present themselves, how discreet they are, how they handle sensitive information, and whether their working style would complement yours all matter before they have handled a single task. That is why every candidate in our library has completed a recorded video interview before you see them. You get a genuine sense of how they communicate, how they think about the role, and whether they feel like someone you would be comfortable having that level of access and visibility. For a role built on trust, discretion, and working style compatibility, the video interview is often the most useful hiring signal of all. Book a call with our team, share your brief, and we will match you with three suitable candidates within 48 hours. If the first batch does not feel right, we go back and find better ones. And if the right person is not already in our library, we will run a custom search at no extra cost. [Book a call](/book-a-call) ## Tasks our Executive Assistants assist clients with The executive assistants in our library bring experience supporting a wide range of senior leaders, business types, and working styles. When you share your brief, we will match you with someone whose background and capabilities fit the specific demands of your role and the way you work. ### Calendar and schedule management For executives whose time is their most valuable and most contested resource, we have candidates experienced in managing complex, fast-moving calendars, prioritising ruthlessly, protecting focus time, and making sure the schedule reflects what actually matters rather than just what was requested first. ### Inbox and correspondence management For leaders whose email volume has become a job in itself, we have candidates skilled in triaging and managing inboxes, drafting responses, handling routine correspondence independently, and making sure nothing important gets missed or left unanswered for longer than it should. ### Travel and logistics coordination For executives who travel regularly for business, we have candidates experienced in managing the full logistics of domestic and international travel, from flights and accommodation through to itineraries, transfers, and the contingency planning that makes travel less stressful and more productive. ### Meeting preparation and follow-up For leaders who move between back-to-back meetings without the time to prepare properly or follow up effectively, we have candidates skilled in preparing briefing notes, pulling together relevant background, circulating agendas, and managing the actions and follow-ups that keep decisions from stalling after the meeting ends. ### Project and operational support For executives managing multiple workstreams simultaneously, we have candidates experienced in tracking projects, chasing progress, coordinating across teams and external parties, and making sure the things that are supposed to happen actually happen without the executive having to check on them personally. ### Research and information management For leaders who need good information to make good decisions, we have candidates skilled in conducting research, summarising findings, preparing reports, and organising information in ways that are useful rather than just comprehensive. ## Why choose an Executive Assistant in South Africa An Executive Assistant operates at the intersection of communication, judgement, and discretion. The role requires someone who writes clearly, speaks confidently, handles sensitive situations with care, and understands the professional norms of the business environment they are supporting. Those qualities depend on genuine fluency in English and a cultural familiarity with how UK and US professional environments work. South African executive assistants have grown up communicating in English and working within business cultures that share the same professional standards, communication expectations, and working norms as the UK and US markets. They do not need time to adjust to how business is conducted in those markets. They already understand it. What also distinguishes the market is the calibre of experience available at this price point. You will find executive assistants who have supported C-suite leaders in financial services, managed the diaries and operations of founders running fast-growing technology businesses, and provided senior-level administrative support to directors in professional services firms where discretion and precision were non-negotiable. The experience is there. So is the professionalism that comes with having operated at that level. ### Native English First-language fluency for UK and US audiences ### GMT+2 timezone Full overlap with UK, comfortable with US East ### Senior experience C-suite, financial services, professional services ## Executive Assistant Pricing An Executive Assistant is one of the roles where the return on investment is most immediately felt. Within weeks of starting, the hours recovered, the tasks removed, and the mental load reduced tend to be visible in a way that makes the cost feel like the easiest decision the business has made. The question for most clients is not whether to hire but how many hours they actually need. Part-time ### 4 hours per day 80 hours per month £1,350 / $1,750 per month Equivalent to **£17 / $22 per hour** Full-time ### Full hours 160 hours per month £2,150 / $2,750 per month Equivalent to **£14 / $17 per hour** Executive Assistants are available from 1 to 8 hours per day. The prices shown above are the average rates for Executive Assistants and are for illustration purposes only ## What our clients say We are trusted by hundreds of agencies and companies to find their remote talent. "Their knack for pairing suitable candidates has significantly benefited us. We're eager to maintain a long-term partnership with Roocruit." Michelle Homesmart "A really simple way to recruit good talent without the fuss or long-term contracts. Flexibility to suit my business was a major draw." Martin Team Umbrella "My Roocruit assistant is of a much higher quality than I've had from other agencies before, and I couldn't be happier." Mike AquAid "We loved being able to view pre-recorded video interviews of the candidates before scheduling in-person meetings." Megan Trebletree "Their knack for pairing suitable candidates has significantly benefited us. We're eager to maintain a long-term partnership with Roocruit." Michelle Homesmart "A really simple way to recruit good talent without the fuss or long-term contracts. Flexibility to suit my business was a major draw." Martin Team Umbrella "My Roocruit assistant is of a much higher quality than I've had from other agencies before, and I couldn't be happier." Mike AquAid "We loved being able to view pre-recorded video interviews of the candidates before scheduling in-person meetings." Megan Trebletree "Their knack for pairing suitable candidates has significantly benefited us. We're eager to maintain a long-term partnership with Roocruit." Michelle Homesmart "A really simple way to recruit good talent without the fuss or long-term contracts. Flexibility to suit my business was a major draw." Martin Team Umbrella "My Roocruit assistant is of a much higher quality than I've had from other agencies before, and I couldn't be happier." Mike AquAid "We loved being able to view pre-recorded video interviews of the candidates before scheduling in-person meetings." Megan Trebletree "This is a slick operation. Hannah who is helping us, is outstanding, flexible and very good value." Matthew The Virtual Panel "We've got three excellent placements, would recommend them highly!" Asif Disruptiv Media "The hardest part was choosing between several excellent candidates." James Crossover Communications "Roocruit is a true expert at providing top-shelf professional services talent." Doug Wendt Partners "This is a slick operation. Hannah who is helping us, is outstanding, flexible and very good value." Matthew The Virtual Panel "We've got three excellent placements, would recommend them highly!" Asif Disruptiv Media "The hardest part was choosing between several excellent candidates." James Crossover Communications "Roocruit is a true expert at providing top-shelf professional services talent." Doug Wendt Partners "This is a slick operation. Hannah who is helping us, is outstanding, flexible and very good value." Matthew The Virtual Panel "We've got three excellent placements, would recommend them highly!" Asif Disruptiv Media "The hardest part was choosing between several excellent candidates." James Crossover Communications "Roocruit is a true expert at providing top-shelf professional services talent." Doug Wendt Partners ## Executive Assistant FAQs ### What does an Executive Assistant actually do day-to-day? ### How do we make sure they understand how we work? ### Can they communicate directly with clients and external contacts on our behalf? ### What tools do your candidates work with? ### Is this role better suited to part-time or full-time? ### Who pays the specialist — us or RooCruit? ### What if the candidate is not the right fit? ## Finding the right Executive Assistant is FREE with RooCruit Getting started is completely free. Book a call, share your brief, and we will send you video profiles of pre-vetted Executive Assistants within **24 hours**. 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