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Personal Assistant

Job Location

Thurston County, WA

Published By

Our Ark

Type of Job

Part Time Volunteer

Published Date

April 12, 2021 at 7:00:00 AM

About the job



    We are looking for a versatile and highly-organized Personal Assistant to perform personalized administrative duties for senior management. In this role, you will be responsible for scheduling meetings, taking notes, and handling correspondence on behalf of managers.

    To ensure success as a Personal Assistant, you should exhibit excellent organizational skills and demonstrable experience in a secretarial role. Accomplished Personal Assistants are intuitive to the needs of the managers and work autonomously to provide customized administrative support.

    Personal Assistant Responsibilities:

    Reporting to senior management and performing secretarial and administrative duties.
    Liaising with internal departments, answering calls, and making travel arrangements.
    Scheduling appointments, maintaining an events calendar, and sending reminders.
    Copying, scanning, and faxing documents, as well as taking notes.
    Observing best business practices and etiquette.

Requirements

Personal Assistant Requirements:

  • High School Diploma or GED.

  • Experience in creating documents and spreadsheets, using office software such as MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

  • Typing, note-taking, and organizational skills.

  • Working knowledge of printers, copiers, scanners

  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

  • Exceptional interpersonal skills

  • Analytical and organizational skills.

  • Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

  • Ability to multitask 


This Job Is Ideal for Someone Who Is:


  • Dependable -- reliable than spontaneous

  • People-oriented -- enjoys interacting with people and working on group projects

  • Adaptable/flexible -- enjoys doing work that requires frequent shifts in direction

  • Detail-oriented -- would rather focus on the details of work than the bigger picture

  • Achievement-oriented -- enjoys taking on challenges, even if they might fail

  • Autonomous/Independent -- enjoys working with little direction

  • Innovative -- prefers working in unconventional ways or on tasks that require creativity

  • You can qualify with any educational background

Benefits

  1. On-the-job training

  2. Brings fun and fulfillment to your life.

  3. Developing management skills

  4. Making our communities better to live and love 

  5. Personal assistants learn how the best in the business do what they do

  6. Get an idea for their future career path

  7. Build self-confidence and develop a sense of responsibility

  8. Learn basic work skills such as putting together a resume, interviewing and working with different colleagues

About us

We are 100% volunteer led team of passionate people who are to support and help the youth on the streets to go from thriving to surviving through care, compassionate, committed adults in our communities. We adhere to our values of Compassion, Community (engaging individuals, building alliances), Commitment, Hope, Trust, Love, Respect, and Integrity. We love to have fun enjoying every moment we have with team members, youth, and our communities. We would love to have you a part of this team.

Address

Olympia, WA, USA

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