Young Life · 8 hours ago
Area Office Administrator, Greater Highline/Tukwila
Young Life is a Christian organization focused on evangelism and discipleship. The Area Office Administrator provides administrative support to ensure the efficient functioning of the field ministry area office, handling tasks such as communication, event coordination, and database management.
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Responsibilities
Written and Verbal Communication
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 area M-Site
Send thank-you letters to donors
Interact with area office assistant, area directors, area committee, volunteer team leaders and leaders with area
Administration
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 and make copies, evaluate financial monthly status and update FDT each month
Maintain contact databases including the following:
Update area donor database on a regular basis
Enter club card data into kid database
Update parent database
Maintain newsletter recipient list
Create and maintain banquet invitation list
Update contact in Palm/Outlook
Update e-mail distribution lists: club kids, campaigners, committee, leaders and prayer partners
Human Resource for Regional Administrators
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, including:
Area Staff Meetings
Area leadership meetings
Area committee meetings
Camp
Track participation, payments, health forms and how much each kid has earned in fundraisers
Send letters to parents about camp sign-ups, itineraries and health forms
Responsible for fundraiser marketing
Construct and distribute camp brochures
Communicate with camp regarding camp contracts, R2 deposits, A-forms, housing request forms and 10-day call-ins
Create invitations, banquet sponsor packet, table host packet, banquet program and donor cards
Track guest list, table sponsors, RSVP list and donations received from banquet
Coordinate with table hosts about their invitation lists
Mail invitations
Send thank you notes to banquet donors
Track table sponsors
Provide training to area office assistant, area directors, area committee, volunteer team leaders and leaders with various items, processes and applications related to field administration
Qualification
Required
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 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
Associates degree preferred
Previous administrative assistant experience preferred