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NOTE: When you apply for this position, please respond in an email addressing each item in the ENTIRE ad below including Comments. Type your answers between the relevant lines, in a conversational style, with your initials before each entry and a colon (Example CH:). Describe your skills and previous experience in each area of work, whether as a paid employee, volunteer or from other personal experience. Please attach a copy of your resume. Thank you!
A lively senior, founder / director of a non-profit archive needs additional assistance, starting as soon as we find a good fit. She lives in Northeast Berkeley, eight blocks from campus.
Details of the job:
- $16-18/hour, depending on skills, experience, and tasks / responsibilities taken on in this job
- 10-40 hours/week; EVENINGS AND WEEKENDS PREFERRED; weekly hours are negotiated three weeks ahead according to what will best serve your needs and hers. This includes daytime or evening hours, weekdays and/or weekends.
- Requires an ability to read carefully, pay strict attention to detail, and take detailed notes.
- Wide range of tasks whatever needs to be done that day including, but not limited to: online research, email archive research, organizing correspondence and doing spreadsheets of her library of books, tapes, CDs, DVDs, documents, and various memorabilia, email logs of incoming snail mail, errands
Required skills / personal characteristics:
- Be smoke and scent-free (Are you a non-smoker? Are you willing and able to make the transition to scent-free products?)
- Positive, flexible, professional, can-do attitude
- Resourceful, thoughtful problem solver
- Able to type 55+ wpm
- Familiarity with or ability to learn Word, Excel, Google Docs, MacMail, Eudora quickly
- Good speaking/writing skills, such as note-taking and interpreting oral/written instructions
- Efficient work style, with attention to detail where needed
- Strong work ethic; show up on time, work energetically
- Good listener; excellent memory
- Comfortable communicating by email and some phone
- Respectful of privacy
- Strong recommendations
Desired skills / personal characteristics:
- Comfort with reading and managing long email conversations
- Have own transportation for errands and going to events with Laura
- Have own computer to do on-line work as needed
- Previous work experience as a personal assistant / household assistant, or other position of trust
- Capacity to evolve into this position long-term, rather than planning on leaving the area, for example
If interested, this is a very important part of your interview process: please reply with YOUR NAME and "Personal Assistant" in the subject header, and in the body of the email answer the following questions:
1. Why would you be good for this job?
2. Why is this job good for you?
3. Who are 2 prior employers and 2 references? (include contact name, email, and phone)
Then, directly under each item in the above ad (not just the two questions, but each item, starting with "Details of the job" through the "Desired skills" section), provide specific examples of your skills and background in response to each item in the ad above, preceded by your initials.
Feel free to attach any resumes or letters of recommendation as well, but not as a substitute for the necessary conversation we request.
Vacancy expired!