Executive Assistant
Organization: Sharp Six http://sharpsix.com/
Location: Vancouver / Coast Salish Territory, British Columbia
Hours/week: 30, potentially increasing
Location: our office in Railtown
Posted: November 5, 2014
Start date: Yesterday! (but we’ll be patient for the right person)
Applications accepte
US:
Sharp Six provides professional capacity building services to
community driven organizations. Our services include grant management,
project coordination, proposal development, strategic planning and
governance/policy audits. You can read more at sharpsix.com but here
are few other things to note:
• ethics and passion are paramount in our work; dedication to ‘greater
good’ causes is essential for those working with us and our awesome,
world changing and boundary pushing clients
• the business was started in August 2013 by Rachel and is currently
in a strategic growth stage
• we currently have 1 person full time and 2-3 doing various
iterations of part time contract work
• we don’t do event planning but sometimes planning events is part of
some bigger projects we do
• we have a micro lending ‘side project’, Sharp Solutions, that we
think is pretty innovative & fun
TO JOIN US:
Qualities a successful candidate will have and responsibilities they will hold:
• you like to laugh
• you are professional, honest, trustworthy and reliable, and a bit of
a firecracker
• you have minimum one year experience in a supportive role to an
executive, manager or other professional
• you want a good mix of responsibility and authority, like to take
initiative when given space to do so, and are able to differentiate
your work style for things that can just be done vs. things that need
more iterative, collaborative process
• you get a rush from organizing something well. Give us examples.
• you have solid bookkeeping skills (we use Freshbooks; would be cool
if you’ve used Freshbooks)
• you have experience writing & editing documents and creating fun,
engaging presentations, both for varied audiences
• you’re very comfy with and fast on a (Mac) computer – office suite,
mac programs, online project management, CRM systems, social media,
potentially some basic graphic design
• you can type 75-100+ WPM with minimal errors
• you can pick up the phone and speak with anyone in an intelligent
and confident manner
• you notice – maybe even get anxious – when someone doesn’t spell
your and you’re correctly, put a date on a document, or put a document
in the ‘correct’ font
• you can use and hopefully design custom Excel spreadsheets
• you have basic web editing skills (mostly WordPress)
• you like productive and well run meetings and you are good at
coordinating them
• you are good at juggling tasks, managing your own time & priorities
as well as those of the principal
Things we like that may influence office culture:
• animals, environmental issues, exercise, bicycles, politics,
friends, naps, compassion, local business, justice, wine, bluntness.
To apply:
Please email a cover letter (one page), resume and a list of three
references in ONE pdf document to rachel@sharpsix.com with the subject
line: “EA application: YOUR NAME”. We welcome creativity in your
application but please make sure the substance is there.
Compensation, holidays, benefits are negotiable. Please include a
proposal in your cover letter.
Questions will be accepted by email. Phone calls will not be returned.