STEPHEN CHIDI EDOZIE
Lugbe, Abuja
Summary
Professional administrative specialist prepared to excel in high-demand environments requiring discretion and efficiency. Extensive experience in managing executive schedules, coordinating travel, and ensuring smooth daily operations. Known for strong collaboration skills and adaptability to changing needs, ensuring seamless operations and task completion. Expertise in document management and maintaining confidentiality with utmost integrity. Proficient in time management and multitasking, fostering effective communication and responsiveness.
Overview
43
43
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Executive Secretary
National Steel Council
11.2023 - Current
- Collated and distributed agendas and minutes for all executive meetings.
- Handled scheduling for executive's calendar and prepared meeting agenda and materials.
- Organized and updated schedules for executives.
- Answered high volume of phone calls and email inquiries.
Chief Confidential Secretary
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
01.1983 - 01.2018
- Company Overview: MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
- Substantial professional experience of over 35 years as a Chief Confidential Secretary in carrying out secretarial, administrative and clerical tasks at Headquarters and in the Nigerian Missions in Harare – Zimbabwe, Caracas – Venezuela, Brasilia - Brazil, and Brussels - Belgium.
- In-depth and working knowledge of office practice, office equipment - computers, fax machines, copiers, scanners, telephones etc.
- Excellent public relations in various Departments deployed and in the Nigerian Missions posted.
- Remarkable knowledge of the Ministry’s hierarchy and the Missions served.
- Ability to deal with various categories of staff both at Headquarters and Missions in a diplomatic manner.
- Knowledge of good filing systems and the skills to maintain them.
- Skill in maintaining effective working relationships with officers, colleagues and the public.
- Skill in deciphering complex hand-written manuscripts.
- Extremely discreet, reliable and dependable in confidential/secret matters.
- Carries out all aspect of administrative and clerical duties, efficiently and diligently.
- Supervises all the local staff employed in the Mission
- Supervises all clerical and other secretarial staff in the Office of the Honourable Minister of State-I for Foreign Affairs
- Efficiently and diligently carried out all aspects of secretarial functions assigned to me at Headquarters and in Missions posted.
- Taking and transcribing Shorthand notes effectively.
- Carries out all aspect of Protocol duties both within and outside Nigeria
- Carries out all aspect of receptionist duties both within Nigeria and in the Missions served.
- Coding and decoding efficiently all messages sent from Headquarters to Missions and from Missions to Headquarters.
- Covered many secretarial and social duties as Personal Assistant and Chief Confidential Secretary of the Honourable Minister of State-I (Foreign Affairs). These duties included but not limited to handling of the Minister’s incoming and outgoing mails; arranging and scheduling the Minister’s appointments; custody of the Minister’s personal and flimsy mails; and arranging the Council Memos for FEC Meetings.
- As a top-flight Secretary, more responsibilities and duties were entrusted into my care by Nigeria’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium, the European Union and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Aside the normal secretarial and administrative duties, I was in charge of the recruitment and discipline of Local Staff; maintained the Mission’s Communications Room;
- Covered Minutes of Home-Based Officers’ Meetings; Secretary of the Mission’s Tenders Board; Purchasing Officer for the Embassy and also in charge of the Mission’s classified and restricted Correspondences.
- Countries visited both personally and officially: UK, USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Venezuela, Brazil, Germany, South Africa, Ethiopia, DRC, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Liberia and Ghana.
Education
Intermediate National Diploma - Sec. Studies
Federal Training Centre
Calabar, Cross River State01.1989
Certificate - French Language Course
Communaute Francaise De Enseignement Communaute Francaise De Belgique De Promotion Sociale
01.2017
B.A. (HRM) Degree - undefined
Zimbabwe Open University
01.2002
Certificate - Computer Studies
NIIT Harare
01.2000
Advanced National Diploma - Sec. Studies
Federal Training Centre
Maiduguri, Borno State01.1994
Skills
- Attention to detail
- Decision-making
- Problem-solving abilities
- Professionalism and Diplomacy
- Excellent communication
- Reliability and Dependability
- Discretion and confidentiality
- Adaptability and flexibility
- Hardworking and reliable
- Extensive vocabulary & grammar
- Organizational skills
- Critical thinking
- Computer skills
- Office management
- Team leadership
- Work well independently
- Teamwork and cooperation
- Composed under pressure
- Documentation and reporting
- Advanced research techniques
- Crisis management
- Multitasking Abilities
- Time management abilities
- Client relations
- Task prioritization
- Public relations
- Conflict resolution
- Office administration
- Fast typing speed
- Skilled in Microsoft Office
Certification
- GCE ‘O’ Level
- Intermediate National Diploma (INDSS) - OND Equivalent in Polytechnics.
- Advanced National Diploma (ANDSS) – HND Equivalent in Polytechnics.
- Advanced Certificate in Computer Studies, NIIT, Harare, Zimbabwe.
- Certificate in French Language
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, READING AND WRITTEN
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Igbo (Dialect)
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
French
Elementary (A2)
Hobbies and Interests
Travelling
Reading
Photography
Cooking
Singing
References
- Uche, Ajulu-Okeke, H.E. Ambassador, +234-7039007758, +234-9030000717, Former Senior Special Assistant to the Governor of Anambra State, Awka, Anambra State, NIGERIA
- Viola Adaku, Onwuliri, H.E. Professor (Mrs.), +234-8035815583, Former Honourable Minister of State-I for Foreign Affairs, Mabuchi District, Abuja, FCT, NIGERIA
- Abdulkadir, Musafari, H.E. Ambassador, abdulqadirhadejia1@gmail.com, +234-7088847733, +234-7017613172, Chairman/CEO CORPENHAGEN GROUP, No.23 Suez Crescent, Wuse, Zone 4, Abuja, FCT, NIGERIA
Timeline
Executive Secretary
National Steel Council
11.2023 - Current
Chief Confidential Secretary
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
01.1983 - 01.2018
B.A. (HRM) Degree - undefined
Zimbabwe Open University
Certificate - Computer Studies
NIIT Harare
Advanced National Diploma - Sec. Studies
Federal Training Centre
Intermediate National Diploma - Sec. Studies
Federal Training Centre
Certificate - French Language Course
Communaute Francaise De Enseignement Communaute Francaise De Belgique De Promotion Sociale
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