Assistant, Company Network
- Employer
- Ceres - Investors and environmentalists for sustainable prosperity
- Location
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Closing date
- Oct 24, 2021
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- Focus Areas
- Environment
- Job Function
- Administrative / Clerical
- Position Type
- Full Time
Program Assistant
Organization
Ceres is a sustainability nonprofit organization working with the most influential investors and companies to build leadership and drive solutions throughout the economy. Through powerful networks and advocacy, Ceres tackles the world’s biggest sustainability challenges, including climate change, water scarcity and pollution, and human rights abuses.
For more information about Ceres, please visit: www.ceres.org.
About the Position
The Assistant supports not only a senior program leader, but also other senior staffers. We seek an energetic, highly motivated and organized, self-starter to play a critical administrative and programmatic support role, both internally and externally. This full-time position reports to senior staff member and will be located in Boston, MA or San Francisco, CA.
Specific duties include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Provide administrative and logistical support to the Senior Program Director:
- acting as a primary point of contact,
- prioritizing phone calls, correspondence, and meeting requests managing calendars/schedules, and ensuring follow-through of specific activities and projects to completion; Support the Senior Director in setting agendas for weekly team meetings, taking and disseminating meeting notes, and ensuring appropriate follow-up; Attend internal and external meetings, as assigned, in order to take notes, identify next steps, and ensure follow-through of activities to completion; Assist in development and management of team planning, goal setting, and impact tracking, working in concert with Senior Director and project leads; Support coordination, logistics, and management of team retreats, working closely with Senior Directors and project leads; Assist team in roll out and distribution activities of key reports and special projects; Provide event and development activity support for Senior Directors, including conducting research, drafting speaking points and/or presentations, and attending meetings, as needed; Assist with planning, coordination, and logistics for Ceres annual conference, Investor Summit, and other organization-wide events; Book travel, schedule meetings, and draft trip itineraries for Senior Directors; Process Senior Directors’ expense reports, reimbursements, and other finance-related administrative duties; and Support engagements with network members, external partners, funders, and special projects, as necessary. Travel to meetings and events, as required. Qualifications
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