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Executive Support Specialist

White Coat Waste Project

White Coat Waste Project

United States

Operations, administration, HR, project management, finance or accounting

Full-time: 

Yes

Remote

Paid: 

Yes

None

Mgmt responsibilities: 

02/10/24

Date posted:

Deadline: 

Rolling

About the Role

The ESS is responsible for specific duties that include (but aren’t limited to) the following.

C-Suite Support:
- Provide high-level administrative support to the president. Handle the president’s wide-ranging requests and queries promptly and appropriately.
Act as the administrative point of contact between the president and internal/external demands.
- Conserve the president’s time by reading, researching, and routing correspondence; drafting letters and documents; and collecting and analyzing information.
- Manage quality assurance and proofreading of content such as reports, memos, outbound emails, direct mail pieces, and other materials.
- Perform clerical and administrative tasks, including spot research, letters, memos, presentations, analysis, and other projects for the president.
- Maintain the president’s schedule by planning and scheduling meetings, conferences, teleconferences, and travel.

HR:
- Assist with all recruiting, onboarding, and offboarding processes.
- Manage the employee performance review process.
- Serve as the president’s liaison to staff and external agency partners and vendors.
- Lead and attend meetings on the president’s behalf.
- Assist with researching and developing HR policies.
- Manage and update staff records.
- Coordinate payroll, health benefits, and employee 401K plan. Work with associated consultants and vendors as necessary.

General Operations:
- Manage WCW’s primary email inbox and PO box. Read, summarize, and route all correspondence. Manage associated paperwork and responses to appropriate parties.
- Serve as the president’s “eyes and ears.” Brief the president on all official correspondence and office matters.
- Help manage WCW’s charitable registration process. Serve as a staff liaison to outside accounting firms and attorneys who lead compliance.

Fundraising:
- Provide administrative support for the fundraising program.
- Serve as a liaison to external vendors and consultants.
- Assist with donor relations, thank you phone calls, notes to supporters, and other basic stewardship activities.
- Maintain the donor database and manage updates to supporter records.

Miscellaneous: Additional relevant duties, as assigned.

About the Organisation

White Coat Waste Project is a nonprofit, bipartisan government watchdog featured in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the New York Times. Our mission is to expose and close the U.S. government’s $20 billion animal testing business. We’ve rescued, positively impacted, and saved 29,000 lives, cut $99 million in wasteful spending, and shut down 114 labs and experiments. Our strategy? Stop the Money. Stop the Madness!

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