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Area Admin I - El Dorado

RemoteUnited States only
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Entry level
$20–$23/hr
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Administrative assistant for a Christian youth ministry, based remote in California. Must have high-school education, type 55-60 wpm, and be proficient with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint). $20–23/hour.

Core skills

Microsoft Office

Required skills

WordExcelOutlookPowerPoint

What you'll do

  • Answer correspondence, do filing and prepare mailings.
  • Answer phones.
  • Respond to voicemail, e-mail and phone calls in a timely and professional manner.
  • Gather articles, pictures, layout, production, mail, etc.⁠ for newsletter from area staff.
  • Create club/event postcards, flyers, and/or maps.
  • Send prayer e-mails and monthly updates.
  • Send personal support mailings.
  • Create and maintain the area M-Site.
  • Send thank-you letters to donors.
  • Interact with area office assistant, area directors, area committee, volunteer team leaders and leaders,
  • Process and track donations.
  • Maintain donor and leader databases, ensuring that leader forms, driver questionnaires and​ criminal background checks are up-to-date.
  • Manage monthly expenses and budgets, including area bank account records, FDT, area and staff expense reports.
  • Accounting: pay bills, submit bank account records/purchase card expenses and donations, copy documents and evaluate financial monthly status and update FDT each month.
  • Maintain contact databases: update area donor database, enter club card data into kid database, update parent database, maintain newsletter recipient list, create banquet invitation list, update contact in Palm/Outlook, update e-mail distribution lists (club kids, campaigners, committee, leaders, prayer partners).
  • Track and report vacation, sick and personal days for eligible area staff.
  • Submit timesheets for hourly staff.
  • Complete Personnel Action Requests and required documents to hire or terminate area staff and forward to region for approval.
  • Coordinate area meetings: Area Staff Meetings, Area leadership meetings, Area committee meetings.
  • Camp administration: track participation, payments, health forms and fundraiser earnings; send letters to parents; manage fundraiser marketing; construct and distribute camp brochures; communicate with camp regarding contracts, R2 deposits, A-forms, housing request forms and 10-day call-ins.
  • Coordinate Banquet/Golf Marathon/Auction: create invitations, sponsor packets, table host packets, program and donor cards; track guest lists, table sponsors, RSVPs and donations; mail invitations; send thank-you notes; track table sponsors.
  • Provide training to area office assistant, area directors, area committee, volunteer team leaders and leaders on administrative items, processes and applications.

What they require

  • High school education or its equivalent.
  • Ability to type 55 to 60 words per minute with few errors.
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite. which includes Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint).
  • Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and processes with the capability​ of​ handling concurrent tasks and‌ constant interruptions.
  • Good grammar​ skills and such strong written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality.
  • Basic accounting skills.
  • Detail oriented multi-tasking ability.
  • Proven relational skills with both kids and adults.
  • Initiative with  developing processes/systems around events––data organization and maintenance.
  • Great customer service skills.
  • Preferred: Previous administrative assistant experience.
  • Preferred: Associate’s degree ’ ­ .
  • Because of Young Life’s exclusive Christian purposes, all employees must sign the Statement of Faith;  shall profess a belief in Jesus Christ answers  as personal leader, subscribe to required statements and policies, be ready willing and able to fulfill  ministry functions, refrain from conduct and—statements detracting from biblical standards, and abide by all polices and practices.

Young Life is a Christian mission and ministry organization focused on evangelism and discipleship.

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$20–$23/hr