The Washington Center for Equitable Growth is a nonprofit research and grantmaking organization dedicated to advancing evidence-backed ideas and policies that promote strong, stable, and broad-based economic growth. Equitable Growth engages with academics and policymakers to better understand economic inequality in the United States and its impact on economic growth. Important elements of Equitable Growth's mission include in-house, academic-quality research, and grantmaking to academic economists and other social scientists to support new research on inequality, mobility, growth, and related issues. Building a stronger bridge between academics and the policy community and elevating researchers and their work with the news media are both key to our work, with the goal of making new research relevant, accessible, and informative to the policymaking process.
Summary:
The Washington Center for Equitable Growth (Equitable Growth) seeks an ambitious, energetic, and detail-oriented go-getter to support staff. Reporting to the vice president, the administrative assistant serves on the finance and administration team. The successful candidate will help meet staff needs and ensure strong support for leadership.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities
The administrative assistant will need to:
- Coordinate internal meetings for staff
- Support webinar logistics
- Manage user requests for Salesforce support
- Handle expense and reimbursement processing
- Help set up meeting rooms for meetings with external partners
- Help plan staff happy hours, social events (order food & beverages, make reservations, etc.)
- Approve travel requests in our automated system
- Log tasks, meeting notes, and success indicators in Salesforce
- Purchase office supplies and manage inventory
- Track IT requests and follow up with IT as needed
- Sort and distribute mail and packages
- Support contract development and dissemination
- Work with building engineers for repairs and building-related requests such as heating/cooling issues, maintenance, plumbing, lights, spills, etc.
- Regularly communicate with all staff regarding operations and space
- Take notes and track deliverables from management-labor meetings as requested
- Expected to be in the office 2x/week
- Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Strong attention to detail
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills; creativity in streamlining processes for efficiency
- Strong work ethic with demonstrated ability to consistently meet deadlines
- Strong interpersonal skills and a demonstrated ability to work with teams across the organization to achieve results, as well as ability to work independently
- Ability to work effectively on multiple projects with multiple deadlines simultaneously
- Ability to be present in the office at least three days a week (with flexibility to work from home two days a week)
- 1-2 years of relevant experience (relevant internships are considered experience)
- Microsoft Outlook experience and data entry skills are essential. Familiarity with Salesforce preferred
- Knowledge of economics and economic policy a plus
- Nonprofit, 501(c)(3) experience a plus
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