Administrative Assistant to the Core Team

Core responsibilities:

• Financial Support (30%): Partner with the Core Team to carry out financial coordination, tracking, data entry and processing for budgeting, contracting, grant-making, and expense tracking processes
• Team Coordination (30%): Serve as team coordinator and logistical wheel hub, including scheduling, calendaring, meeting coordination, and logistical communication
• Knowledge and Process Management Support (20%): Process building and process tracking activities including document management, information/file management, and data entry
• Special Projects (20%): Participate in special projects and support IRIS events including document design/formatting, copyediting, research, and materials coordination

This role supports a young initiative in the global social justice space that connects creative visual storytellers, civic innovators, and narrative analysis to strengthen networks, build solidarity, and design innovative projects for impact across interconnected social justice issue areas.

Required skills and qualifications:

• Early-career professional with at least 3 years of experience in a full-time administrative, operations, or executive assistant position or similar
• Strong communication skills and broad command of systems and tools
• Patient, responsive, generous, and able to build relationships and trust
• Open, transparent, responsive, and comfortable with remote time management
• Ready to learn, quick to recognize confusion, confident in asking questions and capturing details
• Comfortable in evolving environments and able to demonstrate dignity and respect for everyone

Compensation and benefits:

• $55,000-$60,000 annual salary
• 4 weeks vacation plus holidays and office closures
• Full health benefits
• Generous 401(k) matching
• Positive work environment on a close-knit, multi-national team
• Engagement with leadership team, including Founding Director
• Considerate and trust-based organizational culture
• Involvement in compelling work with partners around the world

The International Resource for Impact & Storytelling (IRIS) is an international philanthropy-facing donor collaborative connecting creative visual storytellers, civic innovators and narrative analysis, with a focus on global-south-based and -focused work across interconnected social justice issue areas.