Executive Assistant – $35,000 plus full employer paid benefits (3 Minutes from WTC)

Note: WE ARE NO LONGER LOOKING TO FILL THIS POSITION

Date: 2010-03-12, 4:23PM EST

THE KIND OF PERSON WE SEEK:

Attitude and aptitude trump training or experience. We do not need you to have prior experience in any particular area, or any particular college degree (or even a degree at all). But we want to know you’ve spent time working hard and learning well. You can be a recent graduate with little work experience, as long as you were not lazy when you were in school.

You must be:

• Very good at reading, writing, and editing English.

• A clear thinker and problem solver.

• Broadly educated – liberal arts degree is a plus.

• Organized – you will be in charge of keeping things from falling through the cracks.

• Comfortable around both people and computers.

• Eager to learn – We don’t expect you to already know how to do what needs to be done. We expect you to be able to figure things out, and ask for help when you can’t.

• Helpful by nature.

• Idealistic. Cynicism is not a virtue in our environment.

THE NATURE OF THE WORK:

The work is varied.

Some tasks are routine. For example, the job starts at 8:00 AM because there are some things that must be done every day between 8 and 9 in the morning, and other tasks begin at 4:00 PM and can usually be completed by 4:30, but might run longer if there are problems.

The rest of the work will be project based. You might: organize a conference, maintain a mailing list, collect data, build a website, promote its visibility, write articles submitted by others, research and write reports, and so on. Who knows what will come down the pike?

Familiarity with the following will help: WordPress/Blogging, HTML (CSS), MS Office (Excel, Word, Powerpoint), Search Engine Optimization, SQL, and Photoshop. Expertise in everything is unexpected, but a willingness to learn is essential.

Take a look at: http://www.NoShortageOfWork.com

This is one of our non-commercial ventures. We will want you to help edit, contribute, maintain the site, and manage some of its events and spin-off projects.

Here is an example of a project: Five minutes of audio excerpted from a radio interview needs to be combined with a PowerPoint slide show and converted into a YouTube video. We don’t need you to know how to do this before the project comes along, but you are the kind of person we seek if you say, “This is a juicy project,” do a Google search on how to do this, then roll up your sleeves, and by the end of the week you’re proudly showing off your first cut. If you are the kind of person who wants to put this project out for bids, then this isn’t for you.

THE PERSON YOU WOULD WORK FOR:

You will work as an assistant to Brooke Allen. He has a background in mathematics, finance, and trading and he runs a proprietary trading desk at the U. S. subsidiary of a Canadian Financial Services firm. The firm has about 250 people globally, 50 in the U. S. office, and 6 in Brooke’s group. In addition to meeting his corporate responsibilities, he is very active in a number of social entrepreneurship and non-commercial ventures. You can read about him at: http://www.brooketallen.com. You can read about the firm at http://www.MapleUSA.com His professional profile can be found here: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brooketallen

and here: http://www.xing.com/profile/Brooke_Allen

Salary: The pay is $35,000 per year. The position is bonus eligible

Currently, benefits include fully employer-paid health and dental insurance, three weeks paid vacation per year, an employer sponsored 401K plan with employer matching contributions, and on-site gym. If appropriate, we may pay for education related expenses. (Three of five of us were sent for master’s degrees at company expense.)

We are located at Exchange Place in Jersey City, 3 minutes on the PATH line from World Trade Center.

In lieu of a formulaic cover letter, please just send us any questions you might have. We will endeavor to answer them.