Executive Assistant

About the role

The Executive Assistant will play a key role in supporting activities across Year Up United by providing exceptional executive support and managing the overall administration for two to three executives. You will represent Year Up United in interactions with external and internal constituents every day and must operate on many levels with independence, efficiency, enthusiasm and professionalism. As an ideal candidate for this role, you will be a seasoned, independent senior Executive Assistant who can hit the ground running because of your ability to adapt, willingness to learn new systems and your openness to feedback. Strong candidates will also have likely supported multiple executives at once in the past. Because you will be communicating with high level executives and internal stakeholders on a regular basis, you will possess a mature, professional communication style with an ever-present focus on providing the highest-level customer service and support. Success in this position requires that you thrive in fast-paced environments with changing priorities and deadlines and are able to effectively juggle, manage and drive a variety of tasks/activities at once. Executives will depend on you to interface regularly with C-level contacts for a variety of purposes (e.g. program introductions, fundraising asks). The Executive Assistant will also have the opportunity to interact with students in a variety of potential ways as appropriate (i.e. a mentor, facilitator, and advocate, participating in building a positive educational environment). This role will be supporting [Name 1] and [Name 2]. [Name 1] will be the manager on record.