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Administrative Assistant

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Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Full-time

The 2-1-1 Administrative Assistant will provide administrative support to the Managing Director of 2-1-1 and other 2-1-1 leadership as well as the department as a whole. This role will manage and facilitate departmental administrative processes and communication, as well as support and assist with departmental meetings, culture, and technology; will anticipate and coordinate efforts as needed with other departments and community partners to align resources and efforts including reporting.  

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Provide support and assistance to the  Managing Director of 2-1-1
    • Manage complex calendars, schedule internal and external meetings, prepare documents, and respond to inquiries
    • Ensure Managing Director of 2-1-1 is informed and prepared for meetings
    • Coordinate quarterly reports from grantors and write narratives with support of Managing Director
  • Assist in the execution of department and committee meetings
    • Planning, scheduling, material preparation, recording minutes, preparing summaries, reports, and spreadsheets
    • Meeting set-up and tear-down; follow-up communications and record keeping
    • Manage the processes for 2-1-1 Steering Council through email and in Salesforce
  • Facilitate department administrative processes and operations
    • Trainings, communication tools, file storage, and file management to ensure accurate information storage and maintenance of records, files, and rosters
    • Order and organize supplies and monitor budget usage
  • Coordinate department onboarding processes for new staff
    • Welcoming, technology, systems and processes, scheduling onboarding meetings, and continuous improvement of onboarding procedures
  • Complete reports from software tools as assigned to help support accountability and continuous improvement
  • Coordinate interdepartmental communications to ensure support, alignment and final execution of requests and projects
  • Coordinate departmental celebrations, recognitions, and other opportunities to support department morale and culture
  • Coordinate conference related travel and accommodations for department staff and partners
  • Facilitate the completion of, and properly organize important contracts, MOU’s, invoices and other documents
  • Maintain department outreach materials including ordering, organization, and dissemination of print and other tangible materials
  • Take responsibility for the ongoing development and upkeep of the Asana Irving Wiki tool to keep information that is applicable to 2-1-1 work, but not housed in the database.
  • Respond to walk-in and social media inquiries as needed
  • Perform other duties as assigned
Educational Background: 
High School diploma with 3 years of relevant work experience, OR
Skills/Experience: 
  • Balances managing relationships with achieving results
  • Proactive; Experience identifying and addressing department, supervisor, and staff needs
  • Seeks out opportunities to reflect, “fail forward,” seek input from others, and improve. Continuously improves processes, position, and outcomes in this specific role
  • Maintain positive work relationships; Follows through on commitments; Owns mistakes and seeks learning
  • Complete tasks in timely manner; Organized; Acts with clear sense of ownership; Holds others accountable
  • Uses effective verbal and nonverbal habits to clearly express ideas; Seeks to understand other perspectives; Uses data to be persuasive

QUALIFICATIONS

  • Associate's degree and one year of relevant work experience
  • Proficient with Microsoft and Google suites
Compensation/Benefits: 

Salary: $31,000 to $40,000 per year

Organization Info

United Way Worldwide

Overview
Headquarters: 
Alexandria, VA, United States
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1934
About Us
Mission: 

United Way improves lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities around the world to advance the common good.

United Way fights for the health, education and financial stability of every person in every community. We win by living United. By forging unlikely partnerships. By finding new solutions to old problems. By mobilizing the best resources. And by inspiring individuals to join the fight against their community's most daunting social crises.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Oct 22 2018
Active Until: 
Nov 23 2018
Hiring Organization: 
United Way Worldwide
industry: 
Nonprofit