Stand Together

Stand Together • Full-time • Arlington, Virginia • 16m ago

The Stand Together community works with some of the country's boldest and most innovative social change-makers. We believe in empowerment. Working across the political spectrum and impacting communities across the country, we are making positive change reality by uniting diverse voices on the issues that matter most.

As an Executive Assistant with Stand Together, you are a valued business partner who takes pride in understanding your principal's business portfolio. Strong in identifying and anticipating needs, you know that success or failure is determined by the thoughtfulness and ability to execute with excellence. As a strategic thinker, you connect task management to organizational priorities with a high degree of confidentiality, sense of urgency, and customer focus. You enjoy being part of a team that supports one another and finds fulfillment by helping others achieve success.

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Your Responsibilities Include

- Calendar management. Build and maintain a deep understanding of priorities to effectively allocate the principal's time. Prioritize a high volume of inquiries and requests while troubleshooting conflicts for your team. Make judgements on time and recommendations grounded in strategic priorities to ensure smooth day-to-day engagements.
- Meeting preparation and participation. Assemble meeting agendas, record meeting minutes and notes, and oversee A/V needs and action items.
- General administrative support. Process invoice payments, reconcile receipts and expense reports on behalf of the leaders, and book and coordinate travel, itineraries, and logistics.
- Identify areas to increase efficiency and innovate to improve administrative processes. Collaborate with internal and external Executive Assistants to understand prioritization and make trade-offs. Identify and learn new tools and techniques to elevate the level of support and partnership the administrative team can give.
- Own and contribute to team and organizational projects and operational improvements as needed

Knowledge and Skills You Bring to the Organization

- 3+ years of professional experience.
- Professional manner and strong interpersonal communication skills, written and verbal
- Excellent organizational skills with sharp attention to detail and the ability to think ahead, problem solve, engage proactively, and take initiative
- Have a collaborative approach to work; give and receive feedback respectfully.
- A clear understanding of and excitement for Stand Together's mission
- Ability to think strategically about the principal's time as an allocation of resources.
- Demonstrate a high level of confidentiality, sense of judgment, and ability to improvise and creatively problem-solve while maintaining composure.
- Ability to provide articulate and concise oral and written communications.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, Outlook (including expertise with Outlook’s calendar function), and PowerPoint.
- A clear understanding of and excitement for Stand Together's vision

Standout Candidates May Also Bring

- Proficiency with expense reporting software, such as Concur
- Proficiency with Salesforce

What We Offer

- A meaningful career where your work will improve the lives of millions of Americans – especially the least fortunate.
- A vision-driven organization of over 1,000 employees across the country who are dedicated to improving the lives of others.
- Competitive salaries and bonuses. Our salary and bonus strategies are aligned to the value you create, not a standardized bell curve.
- Generous 401K match - 6% match with immediate vesting.
- Competitive health and wellness benefits.
- Our flexible time-off policy allows all employees to take leave as needed.
- Commuter assistance plans to offset the cost of commuting into our Arlington, VA offices (on-site parking or metro).
- Opportunities for professional development and mentorship that can strengthen your effectiveness through Principle Based Management and other industry specific programs.

Stand Together helps social entrepreneurs supercharge their efforts to help people improve their lives. We connect them with passionate partners and the resources necessary to make a greater difference.

Through our philanthropic community, we tackle some of the nation's biggest challenges so that every person has the opportunity to realize their extraordinary potential.

Stand Together partners with people from diverse perspectives and backgrounds—including people in education, business, community non-profits, and public policy—to accomplish more together than any of us could on our own.

Our Values

Working at Stand Together is different from many other organizations. We have a relentless commitment to a culture based on a business philosophy called Market Based Management® (MBM®). Informed by the principles that allow a free and open society to flourish, MBM® prepares individuals to innovate, improve, and transform while fostering a healthy, growing organization that creates long-term value for its clients and supporters and fulfillment for its employees.

We believe that diversity in experiences, perspectives, knowledge and ideas fuels creativity, broadens knowledge, and helps drive success. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and strive to treat all employees and applicants with honesty, dignity, respect and sensitivity. We welcome all qualified applicants regardless of color, race, religion, religious creed, sex, gender or gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, ethnicity, ancestry, age, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy (including medical needs which may arise from pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), military and veteran status, genetic information, marital or familial status, political affiliation, or any other legally recognized protected basis under federal, state or local laws, regulations or ordinances.