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Executive Assistant, Center for Policy Advocacy

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Washington, DC, United States
Full-time

NRDC is seeking an experienced Executive Assistant to provide important administrative and special projects support to the head of the Center for Policy Advocacy department in our Washington, DC office.

Areas of Responsibility: 
  • Proactively managing the Director and one to two additional principals’ calendar appointments and meetings, travel arrangements, correspondences, and expense reports.
  • Drafting, editing, formatting, and proofreading internal memorandum and presentations.
  • Organizing and managing all logistical elements of department retreats and other meetings and events.
  • Compiling and editing periodic reports from department staff.
  • Track department budgets in close coordination with relevant budget managers and Finance staff.
  • Coordinating department interface with Human Resources, Finance, and IT.
  • Providing administrative leadership and guidance to department program assistants.
  • Being an accessible roll-up-the-sleeve problem solver, including occasionally on weekends and evenings.
Educational Background: 
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
Skills/Experience: 
  • Five or more years of experience in an administrative role. This is not an entry-level position.
  • Superior personal organization, time management, and multi-tasking ability.
  • Good judgment; attention to details; follows instruction well; a can-do problem solver.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated ability to build high-value relationships with administrative colleagues, departmental staff, and external partners.
  • Poised under pressure and ability to excel in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment.
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills.
  • Advanced computer skills in Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality.
Job Function: 

Organization Info

Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.

Overview
Headquarters: 
New York, NY, United States
Annual Budget : 
$100-500M
Founded: 
1970
About Us
Mission: 

The Natural Resources Defense Council's purpose is to safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals and the natural systems on which all life depends.

We work to restore the integrity of the elements that sustain life -- air, land and water -- and to defend endangered natural places.

We seek to establish sustainability and good stewardship of the Earth as central ethical imperatives of human society. NRDC affirms the integral place of human beings in the environment.

We strive to protect nature in ways that advance the long-term welfare of present and future generations.

We work to foster the fundamental right of all people to have a voice in decisions that affect their environment. We seek to break down the pattern of disproportionate environmental burdens borne by people of color and others who face social or economic inequities. Ultimately, NRDC strives to help create a new way of life for humankind, one that can be sustained indefinitely without fouling or depleting the resources that support all life on Earth.

Listing Stats

Post Date: 
Jan 19 2018
Active Until: 
Feb 19 2018
Hiring Organization: 
Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.
industry: 
Nonprofit