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Executive assistance and event organisation

Move from carrying out to anticipating alongside a general management team.

Block code
SECR-DIR
The format

Three months, two hours a day.

  • Certificate programme · 128 h
  • Two hours a day
  • 250,000 F — the same fee for all sixty
  • All in the same format, at the same fee.
The qualification

A CQP under MINEFOP accreditation.

  • Leads to the CQP — Certificat de Qualification Professionnelle, which the ministry used to call the AQP.
  • Awarded under MINEFOP accreditation.
  • The full programme for the same profession remains open to anyone aiming for the complete qualification.
Sessions

A new session opens every quarter.

Next intake: Monday 5 October, with enrolment open until 2 October. The following one starts on 4 January 2027.

  • First-quarter intake — enrolment closes on 2 October5 Oct.
  • Second-quarter intake — 20274 Jan.
Objectives

What you will be able to do.

  • Understand what is at stake for an executive and anticipate their needs

  • Filter, delegate and raise an alert at the right time

  • Handle sensitive files with heightened confidentiality

  • Represent management without making commitments that should not be made

  • Prepare and run a governing body's meeting: notice, meeting pack, minutes, register

  • Track resolutions and follow up until they are carried out

  • Organise a professional event and coordinate a cross-functional project

Programme

Four modules.

  1. Module 0132 h

    High-level executive assistance

  2. Module 0232 h

    Governing bodies, boards and governance

  3. Module 0332 h

    Organising professional events

  4. Module 0432 h

    Projects and cross-functional coordination

Who it is for

Who it is aimed at.

  • Learners with experience of assistant work — in practice, holders of AI-augmented administrative assistant and Diary and client relations manager. The block demands maturity and proven discretion.
Afterwards

Where it leads.

  • Executive assistant, office manager, project coordinator. This is the block that takes you from carrying out to anticipating.
Method

How it works.

  • Systematic alternation between short theory sessions and practical work, with most of the time spent on practice

  • Progression from simple to complex: each module builds on what was learnt in the previous one

  • Realistic role-plays drawn from Cameroonian business cases

  • Considered use of generative AI as a working tool, in line with the common core

  • Regular formative assessments and a final integrative project drawing on all four modules

Assessment

How you are assessed.

  • Formative assessment at the end of each module (graded role-play and practical exercises)

  • Practical work assessed against competency sheets

  • Final integrative project, presented and defended before the trainer

  • One graded assignment per module in the online course space

Tools

What you work with.

  • Executive diary and file preparation tool

  • Templates for notices of meeting, meeting packs and minutes

  • Minute book and tracking of resolutions

  • A lightweight project management tool and dashboard

  • Templates for event backward schedules and budgets

Join the next session

Ready to get started?

Sessions open every quarter. Apply now or request the detailed brochure — our advisers will get back to you.