NHQ:ISD - SLT - OPS - SAF/ISD Executive Assistant
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Provide support to NHQ International and Service to the Armed Forces executives to improve internal communications, track taskers, troubleshoot challenges, prepare presentations, and manage calendars and agendas. This is a 100% virtual (volunteer-from-home) opportunity.
Responsibilities:
- Support SAF/IS Executive Leadership to keep priorities on track, including logging leadership taskers and following up with assigned owners to ensure timely completion
- Support effective leadership meetings by preparing agendas, ensuring required inputs are ready, displaying decks, and logging and circulating follow ups
- Polish presentations for leadership briefings, including reformatting, copy editing and adding visuals
- Inform analysis for leadership decision by preparing or modifying spreadsheets, including formatting, flagging incomplete data and/or creating pivot tables to provide analysis
- Schedule and confirm appointments on calendar
- Other administrative support tasks as assigned
- May provide support to SAF/IS SVP during absence of SVP Executive Assistant
- May support inbox management
- May participate as a department representative on a cross-functional team or serve as a team lead for an intra-department project
Qualifications:
Required:
- Reliable access to resources needed to volunteer 100% virtually
- Passion for the Red Cross mission and willingness to learn
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Professional, clear, and diplomatic communication skills to coordinate with various internal and stakeholder groups
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to spot errors
- Ability to exercise discretion and maintain confidentiality
- Ability to work independently while exercising sound judgment
- Ability to handle varying schedules and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Strong organizational skills to organize and structure office routines, files, procedures, and projects
- Strong computer skills, including Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and Outlook and web-based programs
- Experience working virtually
- High tolerance for ambiguity
- Submission of resume
- Willingness to comply with current public health and Red Cross policies.
- Must reside in the United States
About American Red Cross - National Headquarters
Location:
431 18th St NW, Washington, DC 20006, US
Mission Statement
The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors.
Description
Every single day, the American Red Cross helps people in emergencies. Whether it's one displaced family, thousands of disaster victims, or providing care and comfort to an ill or injured service member or veteran or support to a military family member, our vital work is made possible by people like you. It is through the time and care of ordinary people that we can do extraordinary things.
