Administrative Assistant

Administrative Assistant; New Orleans (LA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

The Administrative Associate reports to the Chief of Staff and provides essential administrative and operational support to the WFS leadership team in a small, mission-driven environment.

The role includes maintaining donor databases to help scale fundraising and donor engagement, and assisting with logistics for programmatic and fundraising events, requiring keen attention to detail and proactive project management.

Qualifications

• Excellent project management and organizational skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication abilities.
• Attention to detail with high accuracy.
• Proactive and diligent in task execution.

Responsibilities

• Provide administrative and operational support to the WFS leadership team.
• Maintain donor databases to help scale fundraising and donor engagement.
• Assist with logistics of Foundation projects, including event planning and execution for programmatic and fundraising events.

Skills

Project management

Organizational skills

Written communication

Verbal communication

Attention to detail

Proactive

Job description

Reporting to the Chief of Staff, the Administrative Associate provides essential
administrative and operational support to the WFS leadership team. This ideal candidate will be diligent and proactive and enjoy working within a small, entrepreneurial environment that is mission-driven, results-driven, and community-oriented. The ideal individual will have the ability to pay keen attention to details, exercise good judgment in a variety of situations, excellent project management and organizational skills, with
strong written and verbal communication, and possess the ability to anticipate and execute tasks for a variety of projects with a high level of accuracy.

In addition to providing broad administrative support across the leadership team, this position will be responsible for database maintenance to help the Foundation scale its fundraising and donor engagement and will assist with logistical elements of Foundation projects, including event planning and execution for programmatic and fundraising events.