Executive Assistant
About the role
As our Executive Assistant, you'll be the backbone of our Senior Leadership Team and Board of Directors. You're a proactive problem-solver who anticipates needs, keeps the organization running smoothly, and ensures our leaders can focus on their mission-critical work. This role is equal parts high-touch administrative support and strategic coordination. You'll manage calendars, prepare board materials, facilitate planning processes, and handle the details that keep a mission-driven organization moving forward with confidence. Your mission: Enhance our Senior Leadership Team's productivity, efficiency, and effectiveness through proactive administrative and logistical support, while managing governance for our Board of Directors.
You'll know you're successful when: Senior Leaders spend minimal time on logistics and administration—confident it's handled accurately; Board and subcommittee meetings run productively, with all materials and logistics handled seamlessly; Board packets, agendas, and minutes are complete, accurate, and delivered on schedule before every meeting.
Responsibilities
- Administrative Support
- Manage calendars for Senior Leaders and coordinate internal and external meetings
- Code expense receipts into Bill.com and handle financial logistics
- Arrange travel and conference registrations
- Anticipate needs and solve problems before they arise
- Provide responsive support that requires minimal follow-up
- Strategic Projects Support
- Support Senior Leadership communications by tracking action items, drafting emails, and creating slide decks
- Facilitate yearly strategic planning process—gathering updates, synthesizing new goals, and ensuring alignment across teams
- Collaborate with marketing and senior leadership to keep ambitious projects on track
- Board Governance
- Prepare materials, agendas, packets, and minutes for Board meetings and subcommittees
- Manage the organization's BoardEffect platform—posting meetings, maintaining documents, issuing votes
- Coordinate Board onboarding and offboarding, including orientation materials and access management
- Collect signatures, circulate documents, and coordinate remote votes on resolutions
- Maintain comprehensive Board and leadership documentation (membership records, resolutions, organizational documents)
Qualifications
- Self-starter: energetic, solution-oriented, thrives working independently with little supervision
- Detail-oriented: highly organized with meticulous attention to accuracy and completeness
- Exceptional communicator: clear and professional in writing and conversation; able to maintain confidentiality
- Responsive and resourceful: anticipates needs, exceeds expectations, loves solving problems
- Flexible and adaptable: adjusts quickly to changing priorities, handles complexity with ease
- High standards: expects work to be nothing short of the best
- Great listener: connects easily with staff, understands different viewpoints, collaborates effectively