Personal Assistant Position for a Musical Act in Lagos, Nigeria
We are currently seeking a Personal Assistant for a recording artist. Must have a flexible schedule, available to travel within and out of the Nigeria. Open to flying on planes, and willing to drive. Duties include Scheduling, organizing, handling some of the day-to-day chores related to her personal and/or business life.
A personal assistant is hired to help an artist create his or her art. However, this relatively straightforward-sounding remit can mean a vast range of tasks, from making the artist’s morning wake-up call, to calling on your expert knowledge of Inuit fishing practices in helping to create a particular installation.
Personal’ assistants are fast becoming an integral part of the mainstream art world, as busy international artists employ younger art graduates and skilled workers to execute ideas, contribute knowledge and practical help to projects, and organise their social and professional lives.
Assistants will work with the artist in studios, galleries and occasionally at home or abroad, and their tasks and working conditions will very much depend on the artist whose work they are assisting. Given this factor, hours and conditions can vary widely.
Many young artists take advantage of these varying conditions to use a job as an artist’s assistant to supplement their income while they continue to work on their own work during time off. However, it can be hard work: computer literacy, interpersonal skills and a practical aptitude will almost certainly be needed in this varied professional atmosphere.
Salary
Because of the wide range of employees who may be sought under the title, ‘artist’s assistant’, it is difficult to establish a typical salary. Many art-school graduates assist artists for free as interns or even as friends in order to make contacts and gain experience, or in exchange for studio space or other materials.
Personal assistants can often expect to be paid monthly and would be discussed at interview
Responsibilities
- Making and fielding phone calls
- Writing and sending emails
- Everyday assistance with food, travel arrangements and professional/social plans
- Attending social functions
- Researching projects or ideas
- Practical help in creating artworks
- Miscellaneous
Qualifications
Artists, of course, do not need qualifications, and nor do their assistants. However, many assistants are themselves graduates of art school. Educated and always dress smart and approachable
Skills
- Ability to work with people, some of whom could have difficult personalities
- Initiative when trusted with sorting out complicated or flexible situations and arrangements
- Ability to take orders and follow them to the letter when working on artworks
- Willingness to travel and flexibility with time
- Quick-thinking
- Practical abilities, from computer skills
Interested contact me via [email protected]
NB (APPLICANT MUST BE A RESIDENCE IN LAGOS STATE AND LIVE WITHIN THE ISLAND (VI, LEKKI, AJAH).
