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OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR / EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT
20-25 hours per week Monday through Friday
Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen (DESK) seeks a highly-skilled, well-organized, assertive, enthusiastic, and creative individual to work with the Executive Director to carry out a variety of administrative duties, including office management, financial record-keeping, human resources and payroll functions, procurement, and other functions as needed. This is a dynamic role with varied responsibilities and duties. The successful candidate will have a record of successful experience in an administrative/office capacity, as well as specialized knowledge in at least one of the areas of core responsibilities below.
Mission & Background Information
DESK serves people experiencing homelessness or living in poverty by providing food assistance and services that promote health, community, and equity. We are located in downtown New Haven, just off the Green. For more information on our programs, services, history, and vision, visit us online at www.deskct.org.
Core Responsibilities – Competent in all, expert in one.
- Executive Assistance – Assists Executive Director with a variety of administrative duties.
- Financials – Works with contracted Bookkeeper and Accountant to ensure proper recordkeeping, and timely deposits of receivables and disbursements of payables.
- Development – Maintains donor database and produces monthly donor reports; compiles and distributes monthly acknowledgement letters; copy-edits external communications materials.
- Human Resources – Provides support in all areas of HR, including hiring/termination, benefits, policies, and appreciation.
- Policies & Procedures – Writes, edits, and ensures compliance with agency policies and procedures.
- Corporate Compliance – Works with Executive Director to ensure that the agency is in full compliance of all laws and regulations.
- Supplies Procurement – Oversees procurement of supplies and equipment for administrative and programmatic uses.
Required | Preferred |
· Enthusiasm for the mission · Bachelors degree OR equivalent relevant experience · 2+ year experience in office support · Excellent organizational skills · Excellent communication skills · Good social/”people” skills · Ability to multi-task · Comfort with MS Office and Google applications
| · Creative thinking and problem solving skills · Highly flexible · Operational management experience in an office setting · Expertise in Excel, Google Sheets, and Google Forms · Knowledge of web-based database platforms
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Compensation and Benefits
This is an hourly position (FLSA non-exempt), with generous paid time-off benefits and competitive compensation. Precise title and compensation will be commensurate with demonstrated skills, experience, and background. Health benefits are available for eligible employees.
How to Apply:
Interested candidates should complete the online application form available at www.deskct.org/hr.
DESK is an equal opportunity employer who affirms and values greatly the role of diversity in the workplace and strongly encourages applications from people of all backgrounds and lifestyles.
Derek Avery owns COIR Holdings with his wife Bianca. At a glance, the company might look like any other developer, but it is committed to providing middle- and low-income housing in struggling neighborhoods. And not only that: when building in a neighborhood, the company doesn’t stop at housing. It takes a holistic approach by building education resources and investing in community...
Source: https://shelterforce.org/2019/06/28/can-you-have-revitalization-without-gentrification/
New Haven — Acuity Brands, with its wraparound view of the city from its 15th-floor home at the Century Tower Building, an engineering staff that is pulling in local talent, and its workers’ appreciation of the lifestyle amenities downtown, is a marketing dream for the city...
https://ctmirror.org/2019/10/09/can-new-haven-neighborhoods-share-in-downtowns-prosperity/
If you live in New Haven and want to adopt a free tree, URI's GreenSkills team is happy to come plant one in your front curbstrip, thanks to a partnership with the City of New Haven's Department of Parks, Recreation, and Trees!
https://uri.yale.edu/get-involved/request-free-tree
Even with these small rain showers, it is historically dry out there and extremely important that you give your tree(s) extra water at this time. Most storms do not produce enough rain (at least one inch) to keep up with the amount of water the tree needs to survive.
A report by CT Voices for children:
https://ctvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/SOWC-2019-1.pdf
Dr. Nadine Burke Harris has an ambitious dream: screen every student for childhood trauma before entering school.
"A school nurse would also get a note from a physician that says: 'Here is the care plan for this child's toxic stress. And this is how it shows up,'" said Burke Harris, who was appointed California's first surgeon general in January.
Until 2012, Aimee Stephens was, in her own words, “basically leading two different lives, one for work and one for home.” At work she dressed and presented as a cisgender man. Outside of work she dressed as, and could simply be, who she was: a woman...
Mr. Walker rode the United States’ “mobility escalator” from rural Texas to Wall Street. Now he feels “both gratitude and rage” for a country that he says has reached an inflection point...
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/26/business/darren-walker-ford-foundation-corner-office.html
Get Connected New Haven, a one-stop connection to resources for all of the residents in New Haven, Connecticut!
Get Connected New Haven is a continually updated, comprehensive database of services provided by the City, non-profit and community organizations for New Haven residents. It is available in multiple languages.
10 characteristics of good urban/human design:
1 human scale
2 local identity
3 spatial/ historic context
4 options for/ease of mobility
5 embedded nature/ biodiversity
6 network of useable public spaces
7 mixed use
8 ability to personalise
9 resilience
10 ageless
How many of these characteristics do you see in your neighborhood, in your city?
Hartford nonprofit Harc Inc. is looking for an economic lifeline amid turbulent times for charitable giving.
After all, the Asylum Avenue-based nonprofit, which supports more than 400 people with intellectual disabilities, and other Connecticut charities understand that philanthropic giving in the state, and elsewhere, has declined or been flat in recent years...
Spanish Community of Wallingford (SCOW) is helping Latino youth step out of their comfort zones, take on community projects and develop into the next generation of leaders.
The ¡Adelante! after-school program for high school students and Pasos ¡Adelante!, for middle school students, works with about 100 adolescents annually, helping them learn to become comfortable meeting new people, speak in front of groups, collaboratively problem solve and work on projects to better their community. Read more.
We must suspend the “privilege” of complacency that nothing can be done; the privilege of empathy that makes us feel good but leads to no action; and the privilege of ignorance, especially of how deeply racism is at the heart of so much poverty...
https://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/community_convening/
A quarter century ago, downtown Hartford was 8/5 rather than 24/7. People drove in for work or UConn games and then headed back to the suburbs. It was hard to even buy a cup of coffee on weekends.
That has changed...
CitySCOPE, a new podcast from Kate Cooney and her students at the Inclusive Economic Development Lab at the Yale School of Management. Where we learn about what might be possible for our city by talking with other people about theirs. In Season 1, Remaking the City: Charting the Opportunity in Opportunity Zones, we spoke with
developers, community organizers, housing experts, impact investors, foundation fund managers and
public sector officials to learn more about how Opportunity Zones might be utilized for community
benefit. Listen: https://iedl.yale.edu/cityscope-podcast
In 1969, Junta for Progressive Action opened its doors to support the growing numbers of Puerto Rican families migrating to New Haven. It has been a beacon for Greater New Haven Latinos ever since.
Junta has built a strong reputation as an advocate for Latino and immigrant rights and as a place where families can meet with Spanish-speaking staff to receive help meeting their basic needs, learning English and finding a job. As it enters its sixth decade, the multi-service provider is strategically focused on how to best support an increasingly diverse population. For Executive Director Daniel Reyes, hired last year after a national search, that work involves listening to the community and building relationships with partner organizations.
“We are thinking about the whole person,” says Reyes. “This is a historic organization; I’m here to make sure that people continue to recognize this house as a beacon of hope.” Continue reading.
Fixing Fathers, Inc., held its annual Fishing with Dads event Aug. 31 at Beaver Pond Park, New Haven. Parents and their children were treated to a two-hour informative training session, facilitated by Doreen Abubaker and Loreen Lawrence who are certified instructors for CT Aquatic Resource Education. The families learned about various fish (brook trout, brown trout, largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, brown bullhead, channel catfish, and the Redbreast Sunfish) that cohabitate in the pond as well as gear safety, pond ecology, casting and how to tie a clinch knot. After the training session, each child was able to put what they learned to the test. One of the highlights of the event occurred when a seasoned fisherman promised the children that he would help them catch a fish. After 15 minutes, he ended up catching two fish. A Largemouth Bass and a Brook Trout. Of course, the children informed him that he would have to put the fish back into the pond because, according to their instructors, the fish he caught were too small to keep. Fixing Fathers thanked all parents who attended the event, Dibella’s Subs in Hamden, the mettle entertainment group, and of course, the New Haven Green Fund for sponsoring the event. For more information about future events, go to fixingfathers.org.
Excited to bring our community together on Sept 25 for a half-day Convening on Creating a Future of Opportunity Through Inclusive Growth. Learn more about the event and speakers at www.cfgnh.org/2019convening. #InclusiveGrowth #GNHOpportunity
