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Special Assistant

The Special Assistant is responsible for providing administrative, program support, personal and confidential assistant for the Director and Deputy Director.

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Salary: $82,764 - $128,956 per year

 

In this position, you will:

  • Serve as a personal and confidential assistant to the Director of Conservation and Science as well as a liaison with other NZCBI and Smithsonian units.
  • Establish computerized suspense system to develop and implement a program to log and track all correspondence.
  • Arrange, schedule, process request, authorizations, and vouchers for all the senior staff.
  • Assist with developing project work plans including, but not limited to budgets, spending plans, and schedules.
  • Review all outgoing correspondence for procedural and grammatical accuracy.
  • Report on statistical data from brief notes or verbal instructions.