Executive Assistant / Opps Manager wanted in India for exciting mulit-national digital activism startup
Ben Brandzel
Job Description
Executive Assistant / Operations Manager
OPEN (Online Progressive Engagement Network)
Are you a self-starting, detail oriented, excellent communicator who knows how to get the job done? Are you interested in working with some of the most effective digital-era social change organizations around the world? Do you have a passion for justice and a desire to put your practical skills to good use? Then this could be the ideal job for you!
About the Organization
OPEN (Online Progressive Engagement Network) is a new association of 10 digitally-saavy, multi-issue progressive social change organizations from across the globe. OPEN has 5 established member organizations: www.MoveOn.org in the USA,www.GetUp.org.au in Australia, www.38degrees.org.uk in the UK, www.Leadnow.ca in Canada, and www.campact.de in Germany.
We also have 5 start-up initiatives in pre-launch phase, in New Zealand, Ireland, France, South Africa and www.Jhatkaa.org in India.
All these organizations use digital tools (email, web, social networks and mobile) to organize mass participation in civic decision making in their home countries. Their goal is to help their members influence to public policy towards the interests of the people at large, rather than special interests.
Each of our five established organizations has over 1% of the general population of their home country enrolled as a member, with a combined membership of over 11.5 million individual supporters.
After working separately for many years, all these groups came together for the first time in 2013 to start this association. OPEN’s mission is to support learning, collaboration and growth within this extraordinary network.
Open's Founding Director is Ben Brandzel, one of the world's most accomplished digital organizers. Ben has helped start or run most of the OPEN member organizations and managed all online engagement for President Barack Obama.
About the Role
We are seeking our first ever Executive Assistant / Operations Manager to support logistics and systems implementation throughout the organization. You will be working very closely with Ben Brandzel as well as with the other personnel of OPEN and the member organizations across 10 countries.
OPEN is a very young organization and job specifics will evolve over time. An ideal candidate will be a team player excited to grow into an ever widening range of involvement. Core duties will include:
Managing the flow of financial transactions between OPEN staff, member groups, contractors, venders etc. and OPEN’s fiscal sponsor, based in the United States. This includes facilitating and supporting the process for reimbursement request, expenditure approvals etc.
Tracking and facilitating various scheduling and communications threads between OPEN member organizations and OPEN personnel.
Supporting major donor fundraising by maintaining prospect lists, contact histories, reporting deadlines etc.
Assisting the Director and possibly other senior OPEN staff in prioritizing and scheduling appointments, booking travel, sending and chasing invoices and all manner of related logistical issues.
Logistical support for international convenings
Additional research and pragmatic execution tasks as needed
Additional support for Jhatkaa.org India based OPEN affiliate, time permitting.
About You
A successful candidate will have:
A demonstrated track record of organizational excellence.
Very strong, extremely clear, empathic communication skills. This job is heavy on diplomacy and requires both firmness and respect at all times.
Comfort with a start-up organizational environment – one that is growing quickly and where things are changing every day.
Highly capable of self-management while working remotely.
Ability to work outside of normal business hours, as calls with the US, Europe, Africa and Australia will be regularly required.
A passion for the mission: helping incredible activists across the world create people-powered social change.
A genuine enjoyment of completing detail oriented tasks.
Additional Information
This role is a contract position with a USA-based not-for-profit. You will be acting as an independent contractor, not a salaried employee. The role begins with a 2 month trial period and then longer term contracts are possible.
Location
Ideally Bangalore, but anywhere in India is acceptable if occasional travel to Bangalore is a possibility. You will be working virtually most of the time. We can discuss finding you office space, if desired.
Compensation
₹45,000 INR / month. (You will be paid in US Dollars, based on an exchange rate fixed at the time of hire).
To Apply
Please fill out and submit the webform you will find here: http://bit.ly/145aELq
