Project Coordinator

Ipas; Chapel Hill (NC); Remote; USD 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A global non-profit organization is seeking an experienced administrative support professional to assist their Senior Leadership Team. The role includes scheduling meetings, managing budgets, and coordinating travel plans for leadership. Candidates should have several years of administrative experience, strong technical skills, and a commitment to reproductive justice. The position allows for remote work, with minimal travel required.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of relevant work experience in planning, administration support and logistics.
• 2-3 years of project support experience including support for budgeting and financial procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaborate as needed.

Responsibilities

• Provides broad administrative support for the Ipas-US Senior Leadership Team.
• Coordinates high-level projects and manages priority inquiries.
• Maintains SharePoint site for the US SLT team.

Skills

Cultural awareness

Technical expertise in Zoom and Microsoft Teams

Analytical and problem-solving skills

Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Zoom

Microsoft Teams

Job description

Summary of Responsibilities

Administrative Support

• Provides broad administrative support, including scheduling and coordinating meetings, and travel planning for the Ipas-US Senior Leadership Team (CEO, CFO, COO).
• Coordinates relevant meetings and preparations to include calendar invites, agenda, room setup (virtual or in-person), interpretation, and technology needs, including electronic conferencing tools.
• Supports budget development, monitoring, and expense processing, and tracks spending for activities for the Office of the President.
• Supports administrative and financial tasks for the US SLT team.
• Coordinates domestic and international travel arrangements for senior staff and board members, and Board meeting hotel and event needs (meals, meeting space, transportation, etc.).
• Coordinate State registration and support the CFO and CEO with completing annual applications.
• Maintains the US SLT team’s SharePoint site (Luna) and organizes electronic document storage.

Project Responsibilities

• Summarizes, prioritizes, and researches information into a concise and usable format for the SLT to review.
• Creates or directs creation of reports, budgets, and contract processing materials for SLT.
• Coordinates high level projects and responds to or routes priority or confidential inquiries from external or internal sources with correspondence or other messaging on behalf of the SLT.

Minimum Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree and/or 3-5 years of relevant work experience in planning, administration support and logistics.
• 2-3 years of project support experience including support for budgeting, expense management and financial procedures.
• Effective cultural awareness as indicated by the ability to work in a diverse and dynamic environment with people from diverse backgrounds.
• Strong technical expertise in Zoom, Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, Outlook, and calendar management.
• Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, particularly Excel.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Attention to detail, quality, and ability to follow-up and follow-through.
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively, as needed.
• Ability to work autonomously with general direction, clear targets, and limited supervision.
• Ability to professionally and confidentially interface with all levels of the organization and leadership.
• Ability to have a flexible schedule to accommodate senior leaders in different time zones.
• Commitment to reproductive justice.
• Ability to travel up to 10%.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certification in Project Management.
• Experience managing grants, funds, and/or budgets.
• Anticipates and responds to needs of each member of SLT.
• Ability to coordinate with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities while being sensitive to time and budget constraints.
• Fluency in other languages (Spanish, French, Portuguese or others).

Working environment

Remote work; travel up to 10%

Ipas is strongly committed to providing a work environment that is free from all forms of harassment, discrimination, and inequity. We recruit, employ, train, promote, and compensate our personnel without regard to race, age, sex, religion, national origin, color, creed, ancestry, citizenship, caste, ethnicity, regional identity, tribal identity, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, gender identity, transgender status, sexual orientation, or any other personal characteristic protected by law or outlined by Ipas policy. Ipas acknowledges that these personal characteristics may differ in different contexts.