Overview
Are you an administrative professional looking for an opportunity to grow your career supporting the staff of a nonprofit organization?
Do you want to establish partnerships to advance the mission of a nonprofit?
We are currently in search of an Executive Assistant for a Nonprofit Organization. The position is based in Chicago, IL. This is a full-time, temporary to permanent assignment.
ORGANIZATION TYPE: Nonprofit
LOCATION: Chicago, IL
POSITION TITLE: Executive Assistant
DURATION: Temporary
SCHEDULE: 40 hours/week
PAY: Commensurate with Experience
Is This Your Dream Job? The Executive Assistant will perform a broad range of administrative tasks to support the Executive Director and/or Executive Board, including scheduling, managing meetings, and communications with Board members. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working independently and taking initiative to complete duties and anticipate upcoming tasks. Strong ability to prioritize and multi-task with accuracy, speed, and enthusiasm are essential.
Our Ideal Candidate:
• Bachelor’s degree required
• 2+ years of executive assistant experience preferred
• Highly resourceful team-player with the ability to be extremely effective independently
• Proficiency with MS Office Suite required
• Eventbrite, MailChimp, SurveyMonkey, Doodle applications preferred
• Strong skills managing records
• Attention to detail and excellent organizational skills
• Excellent written and verbal communications skills
• Plan and execute diverse tasks at the same time without supervision
• Ability to work with a variety of people with competing demands in a fast-paced environment such as executives, board members, government officials, and other stakeholder groups
How You Will Spend Your Day:
• Provides a variety of administrative tasks for the Executive Director (ED)
• Manage an extremely active calendar of appointments
• Arrange travel plans and maintain itineraries and agendas
• Plan, coordinate, and ensure ED’s schedule is followed
• Complete expense and time reports
• Compose and prepare correspondence that is sometimes confidential
• Communicates directly and on behalf of the ED with Board members, donors, staff, and others, on matters related to programmatic initiatives
• Research and prioritize incoming issues and concerns including those of a sensitive and confidential matter
• Coordinate and plan meetings and events
• Maintain filing system and orderly record keeping
• Assist with IT needs of the ED
• Prepare presentations and reports
• Assist with special projects
• Maintain confidentiality of information
• Serve as the external point of contact for the Executive Director
• Greet office visitors
• Performs other duties as assigned
We’d love to hear from you!
If this sounds like the job for you, we would love to help make that happen. Please submit a resume to speterson@cnpstaffing.com with “Executive Assistant” in the subject line.
Know a friend who would be a great fit? Feel free to send us their resume as well!
Is this position not a great fit?
For more information about Careers In Nonprofits and our other available opportunities and workshops, please visit our website at www.careersinnonprofits.com.
** Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regretfully can only respond to those candidates who best meet the requirements of a specific position or whose backgrounds are generally applicable to our client base. Please rest assured that we retain all candidate information for possible future matches, even if you do not hear from us in regard to your application in response to this ad.