Senior Administrative Coordinator

About the Role

NRDC is seeking a Senior Administrative Coordinator to work with the International Department's Strategy, Planning, and Operations team in our Washington, DC office. The Sr. Administrative Coordinator provides budget, contracting, invoicing scheduling, expense reporting and travel/event-planning logistic support, among other administrative duties as part of the International Program's Strategy, Planning, and Operations (SP&O) team. The person in this role will support the Managing Director of the Global Division and NRDC's growing Africa Initiative team. The Sr. Administrative Coordinator must be self-motivated, organized, have excellent communication, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills, and have familiarity with working in international and cross-cultural environments. The individual in this role must be comfortable working in an independent, flexible, and efficient manner in a fast-paced work environment and be able to prioritize projects. This is a limited term 3 year position.

Responsibilities

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the following essential functions:

• Serve as a critical member of the SP&O team by providing administrative and logistical support to assigned teams, per NRDC's administrative guidelines. This includes, but is not limited to: providing budgeting and accounting support, including processing invoices (including in foreign currencies), maintaining contracts and financial records from domestic and international vendors, preparing reports, and tracking spend.
• Responsible for contract submission and facilitation of institutional processes related to contract approval and vendor set-up.
• Manage centralized electronic filing systems and databases related to budget tracking, contracts, invoices and other team files for the assigned team.
• Provide administrative and logistical support to assigned team members, per NRDC's administrative guidelines. This may include, but is not limited to: scheduling calendar appointments and meetings; drafting, editing, formatting, or proofreading materials, correspondence or reports; creating and submitting expense reports on behalf of assigned team members and providing instruction on proper coding and report submission to team members who do not receive individual support; booking travel and planning associated logistics – including for international travel; scheduling, organizing, preparing for, and following-up on assigned meetings, including planning logistics, preparing materials, taking and synthesizing notes, and sending out action items; assisting with event planning and management, which may require working with external parties, event scheduling, arranging catering, printing, materials preparation, and liaising with Workplace Strategy.
• Provide support to ensure effective communication, collaboration, and information-sharing within the department and with external institutional partners.
• Lead logistics and administrative workstreams, including event and meeting planning, and oversight of expense tracking for both project codes and grant codes and re-classification of expenses. This potentially includes supporting international events or other convenings.
• Work with internal subject matter experts or points of contact to coordinate deliverables, materials, or document submission.

The above list of duties is not comprehensive but generally demonstrates the types of matters under this position's responsibility. Other duties may be assigned.

Qualifications

Minimum Education & Experience:

• Required: High School Diploma or GED.
• 3-5 years of relevant work experience.
• And/or equivalent education or experience.

Preferred:

• Experience working with international partners and organizations is strongly desired.
• Proficiency in written and spoken French to support occasional document review, translation/interpretation and coordination with external partners or vendors, is desired but not required.
• Experience coordinating event logistics.

Skills, Abilities, Competencies

• Commitment to NRDC's mission, values, and DEI principles.
• Competence with and commitment to diversity and inclusion; ability to be an effective partner with diverse colleagues, leaders and partners.
• Demonstrated ability to perform or quickly learn new tasks, systems, and technology.
• Ability to prioritize and efficiently execute multiple tasks, follow institutional procedures, and work independently with strong attention to detail.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including working cross-culturally and across time zones and geographies.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Excellent editing, research, and data synthesis skills, including proficiency with synthesizing and producing meeting minutes as necessary.
• Willingness and flexibility to work paid overtime, when needed.
• Orientation towards working with a broad range of people on different projects.
• Strict adherence to confidentiality requirements and discretion with sensitive information.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook), in addition to ability to learn accounting and finance systems, as well as relevant NRDC specific software and platforms.
• Proficiency in digital tools to support international collaboration, information sharing, efficiency, and project management (e.g. Asana, Canva, Mail Merge, Sharepoint).
• Ability to travel as needed to NRDC U.S. based offices with the possibility of occasional international travel.

Pay & Schedule

• Salary range: $63,000 to $73,000.
• NRDC operates under a hybrid work model. Employees are required to come to the office 8 days per month.
• As a science-based organization, NRDC aims to do our part to help contain the COVID-19 public health crisis. For the sake of health, safety, and equity, we ask that people be vaccinated unless they have an approved medical or religious accommodation or other exemption in accordance with state and local law. We consider a person to be vaccinated two weeks after receiving one full course of a CDC-approved vaccine. In accordance with state or local law, new hires will be asked to attest to vaccination, those wishing to do so may request medical or religious accommodations or other exemptions via NRDC Employee Relations. NRDC treats all vaccine-related data confidentially, in keeping with local, state, and federal laws.