You are excited about influencing and shaping workplace culture, passionate about supporting a thriving non-profit’s staff in accomplishing their goals, and have the background and experience to support your team’s work with administrative excellence. You are able to see the big picture of how operational support responsibilities fit within the larger vision of an organization. You possess a love of getting down the details, creating new organizational systems, coming up with self-guided solutions to problems, and making both fellow staff members and farm visitors feel warm and welcome.
We are open to applicants with varying levels and types of experience, provided that the applicant displays the skills required to successfully execute the job described above. You might be a good fit if you possess/demonstrate the following:
COMPETENCIES AND STRENGTHS
Administrative & Organizational Excellence
- Self-starter: You thrive in environments where you get to hold the operationalization of your assigned workload
- Excellence in organization: You are highly organized, able to track and execute on multiple projects and tasks simultaneously, and are detail oriented
- Prioritizing: You are comfortable maintaining multiple channels of communication (text, email, phone, Slack) and independently managing your workflow to keep projects on track
- Tech-savvy: you are very comfortable with Google Suite, Microsoft Office Suite, Slack, and database systems like Salesforce (additional tech savvy is a bonus)
- Problem solver: You enjoy problem solving, seeing it as an opportunity to connect with and support others and the organization
Self-Awareness & Partnership
- Ownership: You take broad responsibility for your work and approach tasks and priorities with a critical mindset
- Openness: You regularly seek, incorporate, and share new information and feedback
- Balanced: You demonstrate a good balance of self-confidence and humility, able to name and make the most of your strengths, and open to feedback that will lead you to grow and develop as a professional
- Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion: you value the diversity of insight, perspective, and experience brought by people from diverse backgrounds. You are committed to reflecting on and addressing inequities stemming from privilege and oppression in your community
Communication, Collaboration & Customer Service
- Possess strong interpersonal skills: You communicate and collaborate well with a range of colleagues and other stakeholders
- Collaborative: You enjoy learning from and with talented colleagues, and are excited to be part of the success of the whole organization
- Customer service oriented: You appreciate the powerful impact of providing prompt responses to support inquiries, meeting people’s needs proactively, and treating staff and other community members with respect and care
EXPERIENCES THAT COULD LEAD TO YOUR SUCCESS
- Relevant experience in either for or not-for-profit environments
- Demonstrated ability to create and manage well-functioning organizational systems
PHYSICAL DEMANDS OF THE POSITION
The physical demands listed below are representative of those that must be met by an employee in this position. Some accommodations may be made to enable people with disabilities to succeed in the role:
- Typing, writing, reading, hearing, and speaking
- Standing and walking for several hours, as well as sitting, squatting, crawling, climbing, and lifting up to 40 lbs.