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Interim Senior Assistant, IT

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Seattle, WA, USA
Full-time

Do you believe technology can improve lives around the world? We do! We are IT at the Gates Foundation. We are a creative, dynamic group of technologists determined to help change the world. Bring your creative thinking to our tight knit, energetic team to help us achieve our mission. Work CAN be fun and inspiring – check us out.

Areas of Responsibility: 

The role of the Senior Assistant is to provide wide and varied administrative and organizational support for Senior Leaders on the IT team. Key Duties may include all or a combination of the following:

  • Complex calendar management and travel planning
  • Basic financial duties including expense, budget and invoice reconciliation
  • Records and data management including but not limited to management of the team SharePoint site, maintaining an organized filing system etc.
  • Assist with the planning for events, meetings, conferences, convenings, retreats and presentations
  • Work on division specific special projects as needed
  • May determine methods & procedures on new assignments and may provide guidance to other support staff
Educational Background: 
Associates degree (or equivalent work experience) with 5+ years of experience preferred
Skills/Experience: 
  • Experience managing confidential information
  • Excellent judgment, discretion and ability to work independently
  • Problem solving skills
  • Ability and interest in working on a team
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills; must be able to communicate effectively with internal and external contacts, maintain a pleasant demeanor at all times and have the ability to adjust to a wide variety of working styles
  • Proficient with MS Office Suite and knowledge of basic accounting
  • Ability to understand organizational priorities and how they align with the goals of the department/division

Organization Info

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Overview
Headquarters: 
Seattle, WA, United States
Annual Budget : 
More than $500M
Founded: 
2007
About Us
Mission: 

Guided by the belief that every life has equal value, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, it focuses on improving people’s health and giving them the chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. In the United States, it seeks to ensure that all people—especially those with the fewest resources—have access to the opportunities they need to succeed in school and life. Based in Seattle, Washington, the foundation is led by CEO Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann and Co-chair William H. Gates Sr., under the direction of Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffett.

We work with partner organizations worldwide to tackle critical problems in four program areas. Our Global Development Division works to help the world’s poorest people lift themselves out of hunger and poverty. Our Global Health Division aims to harness advances in science and technology to save lives in developing countries. Our United States Division works to improve U.S. high school and postsecondary education and support vulnerable children and families in Washington State. And our Global Policy & Advocacy Division seeks to build strategic relationships and promote policies that will help advance our work. Our approach to grantmaking in all four areas emphasizes collaboration, innovation, risk-taking, and, most importantly, results.

Programs: 
  1. Global Health
  2. Global Development
  3. United States
  4. Global Policy & Advocacy

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Apr 11 2018
Active Until: 
May 11 2018
Hiring Organization: 
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
industry: 
Nonprofit