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Chinyere I.

Executive Assistant | Business Operations | Project Coordination

As your business grows, more decisions, projects, people, and moving parts start competing for your attention. Before long, everything waits on you. As your Executive Assistant, I provide Founder & CEO Support and Business Operations Support that keep priorities moving, projects tracked, teams accountable, and the day-to-day details handled without everything coming back to you. I step in where executive support and operations overlap: managing calendars and inboxes, coordinating projects and stakeholders, tracking actions and deadlines, improving workflows, documenting processes, and making sure the next step actually happens. ✦ THIS MIGHT BE YOU IF • Your team can't move without your approval, decisions, or replies. • Meetings happen, decisions get made, but actions and deadlines aren't consistently followed through. • You don't have one clear view of what's in progress, who owns it, or what's blocked. • Processes live in your head, making onboarding, delegation, and recurring work harder than they should be. • Your calendar, inbox, projects, and follow-ups are pulling you away from the work only you can do. You don't just need someone to complete tasks. You need someone who can take ownership of the moving parts, keep people accountable, and make sure priorities keep moving. 📈 BUSINESS OPERATIONS & PROJECT COORDINATION • Project and task coordination with clear owners, deadlines, priorities, and next actions • Team accountability, recurring follow-up, and blocker flagging • Stakeholder, client, contractor, vendor, and partner coordination • Project trackers, dashboards, status updates, and reporting • Process improvement, SOPs, workflow optimization, and documentation • Hiring, onboarding, and offboarding coordination • Budget, invoice, and operational tracking 📌EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT & FOUNDER/CEO SUPPORT • Calendar and schedule management across time zones • Inbox and email management, triage, prioritization, drafting, and follow-up • Executive correspondence and stakeholder communication • Meeting preparation, agendas, minutes, presentations, and action tracking • Travel planning, itineraries, logistics, and expense reports • Research, briefing documents, and decision-support materials • Deadline, priority, and follow-through management • Administrative and virtual assistance ⚙️SYSTEMS, CRM & CLIENT OPERATIONS • CRM setup, management, cleanup, and data organization • Lead capture, follow-up tracking, and pipeline management • Client onboarding, offboarding, and communication workflows • SOPs, process documentation, knowledge bases, and workspace organization • File management and information organization • Workflow automation and AI productivity tools • Client, vendor, and stakeholder coordination 🎯PROOF OF HOW I WORK * Board Operations: Managed meeting operations end-to-end, including calendars, agendas, briefs, presentations, minutes, communications, and action tracking for 20+ stakeholders across 6 time zones. * CEO Visibility: Introduced a daily morning brief and weekly priorities tracker that ran for 12+ months, giving leadership one view of meetings, priorities, actions, and follow-ups. * Startup Operations: Supported a startup from the ground up with administrative foundations, hiring support, onboarding, workflows, documentation, and operational systems as the team grew from 2 to 10. * Operations Turnaround: Consolidated projects previously tracked across email, spreadsheets, and memory into one system with clear owners, deadlines, status, and next actions. * Systems & SOPs: Built 20+ SOPs, workflow maps, onboarding resources, knowledge-management systems, and templates to standardize recurring processes. * Project Visibility: Used ClickUp, Notion, Airtable, and Monday*com to give leadership a clearer view of execution, ownership, and blockers. 📌WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT • A clear view of what's moving, what's next, and what's blocked • Better ownership and follow-through across projects and teams • NO deadlines and action items slipping • Systems and processes that don't depend on you to keep running • Less time spent coordinating the business yourself 🤝ADDITIONAL BUSINESS SUPPORT When needed, I also handle the operational side of visibility and outreach, including podcast and guest coordination, event and webinar logistics, email marketing, and social media content scheduling. 🚀HOW I WORK I think ahead, communicate clearly, and own the details. I build the systems, flag issues before they become problems, and follow through on priorities so things stay on track without constant oversight. 💻 TOOLS Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Notion, ClickUp, Asana, Airtable, Monday, Slack, HubSpot, Zapier, Flodesk, Metricool, Canva, ChatGPT, Claude, and more. If your business has more moving parts than you have time to coordinate, send me a message or click Invite to Job. Happy to hear what's on your plate and show you how I'd take it off.

🇳🇬Port Harcourt, Nigeria$15/hr100% JSS5.00 (28)Since Mar 2022

Earnings and projects

MRR
$607

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#69,771 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#1,772 / 13.8k
Revenue, last 30 days
$1.3k

Last 6 months: $3.6k

World#33,528 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#627 / 13.8k
Total earnings
$40k

Billed in all: $42k

World#90,785 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#1,026 / 13.8k
Per project
$1.5k

$280 in the last 6 months

World#96,115 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#1,664 / 13.8k
Projects, last 6 months
13

Across 14 contracts

14% fixed86% hourly
World#12,441 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#811 / 13.8k
Projects in all
27

Across 48 contracts

13% fixed87% hourly
World#106,301 / 412k
🇳🇬Country#2,912 / 13.8k

Earnings, last 30 days

$42.1k+$1.3k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$40k$41k$42k$43kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 16% in Business Management

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  5. #555File Management2,593 freelancers · 🇳🇬 #57Top 21%
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  7. #700Client Management2,926 freelancers · 🇳🇬 #65Top 24%
  8. #993Business Operations4,003 freelancers · 🇳🇬 #108Top 25%