Good Group Decisions Assistant Wanted

Basically…..

I’m looking for someone 10-25 hours per week to help me facilitate meetings, prepare resulting meeting reports, research issues and draft text, and help with marketing and other administrative functions around the office. Ideally, you are enthusiastic about helping groups make good decisions.

Starting pay range is $14-$20 per hour with intention to raise the pay after the first few months. Also, this job offers exceptional opportunities for learning, networking, and potential long term growth and stability.

Necessary Qualifications

The following abilities:
 
• Well organized
  • Able to maintain information about several different projects at once
  • Able to keep to deadlines and maintain a planned schedule
    
• Responsible and reliable
  
• Excellent listening and note-taking skills
  • Ability to translate what you hear into concise outlines
    
• Conversation skills
  • Able to converse easily, meet new people, pleasant to talk with
  • Able to conduct telephone interviews
    
• Writing
  • Able to write memos, e-mails, reports, etc. with clarity, spelling and grammar
    
• Word processing
  • Microsoft Word preferred
    
    
• Own equipment
  • Own computer
  • Telephone with voicemail
  • High speed internet access
  • Car and ability to travel to meetings
    
    
• Scheduling flexibility
  • Meetings for clients are all different times, although usually during business hours. Weekday evenings are rare. Weekends are occasional.
     
• College degree
   
• Belief in the mission and values of the company
  

Bonus Qualifications

• Ambition
  • To learn all aspects of the facilitation profession
  • To help me grow the company
  • To take initiative to improve things for clients and for the company
    
• Economic research skills
  • Able to download numeric data, apply formulas, make graphs
  • Understand economic analysis and public policy development
    
• Software
  • Photoshop
  • PowerPoint
  • Excel
  • Quickbooks
  • Other
    
• Relevant work experience
  
• Graduate degree
  
• Flexibility
  
• Creative thinking

To apply

If interested, please send me an e-mail and attach your resume. Tell me why you are interested in the job and what you have to offer. I will answer all who write. 

Thank you for your interest.

- Craig

September 18, 2005