Planning Clerk for City of Portage, IN

Salary: $43,750 a year
Type: Full Time
Location: City of Portage, Indiana

Job Description
This position devotes a significant amount of time on routine administrative tasks and works closely with the public on a regular basis to provide customer service on planning issues. Perform work requiring clerical skills, public relations, research, and must be able to work with minimum supervision.

Full job description and application available here.

Associate, Public & Community Affairs, Teach For America

Who: Teach For America

What: The Associate, Public & Community Affairs (APCA) will play a crucial role in supporting the Senior Managing Director, Public & Community Affairs (SMDPCA) in telling our region’s story and mission externally by building a strong, efficient, and reliable administrative support experience to achieve our funding and legislative goals. They are keenly aware of the importance of strong operations, especially related to data, calendar, and institutional knowledge management. This person has a knack for anticipating the needs of others and understands the significant impact of reliable operations management and execution. In addition to supporting our SMDPCA and other members of our region’s Public & Community Affairs team, they will also work with our Director of Marketing and Communications to ensure our external audience understands our regional narrative and brand. As a whole, this person is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusiveness and has experience successfully working across lines of difference, constantly bringing to the forefront the goal of educational equity.

Responsibilities:

Administrative Support (50%)

• Manage the calendar of the SMDPCA, including scheduling meetings with staff and external constituents and stakeholders

• Ensure relevant information related to meetings held by SMDPCA is captured and readily available for SMDPCA to reference

• Complete background research for meeting prep

Marketing & Communications (30%)

• Support the SMDPCA with drafting the monthly Transforming Education Together external newsletter that goes out to community leaders/organizations and public officials in the region.

• Support the SMDPCA with managing the operations and logistics for the Transforming Education Together Podcast

• Design informational one pagers and decks for external audiences.

Data Collection/Management (10%)

• Work with our Data Team to pull data for our legislative 1-pagers, external decks, meetings preps, etc.

• Manage our PCA Salesforce dashboard

• Upload our meeting notes to Salesforce

• Update and manage our relationship trackers and bill trackers

• Manage our newsletter subscription list

Collective Responsibilities (10%)

• Contribute to our organization-wide and regional success by supporting member, supporter, and partner programming as needed

  Engage in team responsibilities to strengthen our collective work, including check ins, team meetings, professional development, data management, etc.

Qualifications:

Prior Experience:

• 1-2 years relevant work experience in non-profit administrative support highly preferred

• Previous communications experience

• Experience using design/communications programs (Canva, MarketingCloud, etc.)

Skills and Values:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with an ability to convey complex ideas concisely and compellingly to a range of external audiences; credible external communicator

• Organized and has strong follow-through skills

• Nimble, eager to learn and experiment

• Impeccable ethical standards and an uncommon level of personal responsibility in driving towards ambitious goals

• Passion for TFA’s mission, believes deeply in the importance of inspiring/investing external people in TFA’s work, and has high expectations for how TFA is viewed by external constituents

• Comfortable with ambiguity, adaptability, risk taking, and learning from failure in a constantly evolving context

• Open to taking on projects outside of your immediate job description to respond to the needs of our network

• Ability to learn new applications and platforms quickly

Work Demands

• Ability to work some weekends and evenings; ability to travel to in-person meetings

  
  
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Executive Assistant - Chicago Cubs

Who: Chicago Cubs

What: The Executive Assistant, Legal/Community Affairs provides administrative support and office management for the Cubs’ Legal/Community Affairs department. The department oversees Cubs’ charitable and corporate donation and outreach efforts, neighborhood, community, communications and government relations, and works to generate positive support for Chicago Cubs and its charitable and community programs. It also provides support to the team’s legal counsel. Visit here to apply

Program Officer for Illinois Housing Development Authority - Chicago IL

Program Officer

Provide support for current and future funding programs under the Community Affairs
Department. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: assisting department in program
application review, providing scoring and funding recommendations, report preparation and
reviews, compliance reviews and responses, payments, audit reviews and trainings for program
partners. Perform program support requiring a high degree of skills, initiative, and reliability.
The Program Officer will review and make recommendations for applicants applying for funding
under the supervision of the Assistant Director. They will assist in managing and operating the
multiple programs under Community Affairs, as needed.

Must be able to communicate effectively and professionally with applicants, and program
partners regarding program requirements, eligibility criteria, and payment processes throughout
the program. Skills and experience with file documentation, and program operation are required.
Must have strong verbal and written communication skills. Ability to understand and apply
departmental policies and procedures, and perform related duties as required.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
Bachelor’s degree with relevant major required or equivalent. Experience in grant and program
management preferred. Needs a strong ability to prepare and analyze budgets/financial
reports. Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong analytical skills. Polished
presentation skills. Strong relationship-building skills. Highly organized, efficient, self-motivated
and detail-oriented. Excellent computer skills, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. Highly
effective interpersonal skills including demonstrated ability to work cooperatively with a variety
of staff from various fields or interest.
Excellent benefits package, including 401(k); immediate vesting.

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