Executive Assistant, Program for Leadership & Character
The Program for Leadership and Character seeks a conscientious, creative, energetic, responsive, and organized professional to become Executive Assistant for the Executive Director at the Program for Leadership and Character and a new Managing Director who will be hired later this year. Under general supervision, the Executive Assistant will be responsible for managing the schedule, communications, and priorities of the Executive Director and Managing Director. Priorities include providing administrative and strategic support; managing their calendars and correspondence; preparing briefing materials; coordinating travel arrangements, including cost-tracking and reimbursement; assisting with notetaking and follow-up; offering administrative and organizational support; providing general research assistance on topics of scholarly and programmatic importance; assisting with the communicating findings to public audiences; and supporting conferences, convenings, program events, and workshops as needed. The position is vital to facilitating the transformative impact of a major initiative that is developing leaders of character at Wake Forest and catalyzing a national community focused on educating character at colleges and universities across the US.