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Executive Assistant 🔥


NVF Project Name: Women’s Equality Center (WEC)

Position: Executive Assistant (Coordinator)

Location: Remote (location flexible within the US, preference for NYC metro area)

Status: Exempt, Full Time

Position Summary:

The Women’s Equality Center provides strategic communications and campaign support to the reproductive health, rights, and justice field at all levels, developing long-term, big-picture messaging frameworks around emerging issues and complementing and strengthening the work of organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean via grants, integrated policy and communications campaigns, and rapid-response operations.


WEC is an unusual organization in a highly collaborative environment in which we keep structure, hierarchy, and reporting lines intentionally loose and the boundaries between roles flexible to ensure that we’re bringing the full range of expertise, experience, and perspective of every team member to the strategies we’re developing and work we’re doing. Everyone does a little bit of everything here. We’ve worked very hard to establish an organizational culture based on collaboration, candor, transparency, and a great deal of mutual respect and trust. We take it very seriously, and we will need you to as well.

Reporting to the Executive Director, the Coordinator is an entry-level position who will provide day-to-day support to the Executive Director. This is a great opportunity for someone who is proactive, solution-focused, has strong attention to detail, and has a deep understanding of the value of high-level administrative support. The Coordinator will need to be bilingual, and fluently speak, write, and read in Spanish and English.

Essential Responsibilities and Activities: 

  • Manage a high volume of internal and external scheduling, calendar maintenance, meeting coordination; proactively identifying and resolving scheduling conflicts, confirming attendees in advance of meetings, and ensuring the inclusion of agendas,
  • Schedule and coordinate domestic and international travel, including air, train, hotel, and other travel needs, as well as create travel itineraries and briefing packets to prepare the Executive Director for travel,
  • Serve as note-taker in regularly scheduled meetings and coordinate appropriate follow up,
  • Draft and send internal and external emails and communications including to WEC staff, fiscal sponsor, funders, and other stakeholders in both English and Spanish,
  • Prepare materials, fact check, and proof documents, powerpoints, research, and data, when necessary, for the Executive Director’s meetings, presentations, and interviews,
  • Prepare expense reports, and
  • Other general duties and special projects as assigned

The successful candidate must have the following skills and qualities:

  • Previous experience within a professional office 
  • Complete fluency in both Spanish and English; excellent writing, proofreading, and verbal communication skills.
  • Strong virtual communication and collaboration skills: ​efficiency and comfort with Zoom, Slack, and Google Suite, responsiveness via email, and willingness to participate in weekly group calls or as needed.
  • Ability to learn new systems quickly.
  • Comfortable multi-tasking, determining priorities, executing time-management and coordinating many moving pieces simultaneously, and under tight deadlines. 
  • Comfortable working in a collaborative environment, and open to criticism and compromise. 
  • High attention to detail and ability to consistently follow-through in a timely fashion.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and the ability to work with and respect people of different cultures and viewpoints.
  • Passion for making a difference; a growth mindset, can-do attitude, versatility, and openness to engaging in a spectrum of work.
  • Ability to travel both domestically and internationally, up to 25% of the time, some of which may occur over holidays or weekends.

Salary + Benefits:

The salary range for this position is between $60,000 to $67,884, based upon years of experience and education. 

Our generous benefits package includes: 

  • 4 weeks paid vacation and the week between Christmas and New Year off,
  • 13 paid holidays,
  • 10 days paid personal/sick leave,
  • fully paid health/dental/vision insurance, 
  • up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave, 
  • 401k plan with up to 6% retirement match, 
  • cell phone and fitness stipend, 
  • professional development stipend,
  • short/long term disability insurance, and
  • a flexible work environment.

To Apply:

Send resumé and cover letter to HR@la-wec.org [1], using the following subject line format “Last Name, First Name_Executive Assistant (Coordinator)”. For shortlisted candidates, there may be up to three additional forms to complete, to which we’ll send you a link when at that stage.

New Venture Fund Careers:

Women’s Equality Center is a project of New Venture Fund (NVF), a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative public-interest projects and grant-making programs. NVF is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining exceptional people, and to creating a work environment that is dynamic, rewarding, and enables each of us to realize our potential. NVF’s work environment is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working.


  1. mailto:HR@womensequalitycenter.org

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