Special Assistant, Executive Office

Skoll; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Orbis is seeking a Special Assistant, Executive Office to support the CEO and Chief of Staff, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities. Based in New York, you will navigate across programs, regions, and external partnerships to keep initiatives moving.

You will coordinate high-visibility tasks—from multi-country CEO program visits to briefings for government meetings, ELT coordination, and drafting communications—supporting a fast-paced global nonprofit.

Qualifications

• Coordinate CEO time, information, travel, communications, and engagements with priorities.
• Support Chief of Staff to ensure ELT operates effectively and decisions translate into action.
• Work across programs, regions, Board, and external partnerships to move priorities forward.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate CEO program visits across multiple countries.
• Prepare briefing materials for government meetings.
• Attend ELT meetings and coordinate follow-up actions.
• Draft CEO talking points and internal communications or social media posts.
• Help manage cross-organizational special projects.

Job description

Orbis is an international nonprofit building sustainable eye care systems worldwide and making treatment and prevention accessible to all. We are seeking a Special Assistant, Executive Office.

The Special Assistant helps ensure that the CEO’s time, information, travel, communications, and engagements are aligned with Orbis’s highest priorities. The role also supports the Chief of Staff in ensuring that the ELT operates effectively, decisions translate into action, and important organizational priorities move forward.

Sitting at the center of a complex global organization, the Special Assistant will have visibility across Orbis’s programs, regions, functions, Board, and external partnerships. The individual will move easily between strategic and practical work: coordinating a multi-country CEO program visit; working with colleagues to prepare a briefing for a government meeting; attending an ELT meeting and coordinating follow-up; preparing CEO talking points; supporting a Board engagement; drafting an internal communication or social media post; or helping manage a special project that cuts across the organization.