Job description

Overview The national offices of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), based in Louisville Kentucky, serve with mid-councils, congregations, worshipping communities, and partner organizations to carry forth the mission of Jesus Christ. Approximately 400 individuals, diverse in race, age, gender, sexual orientation, faith, skills, and more, come together as colleagues to work for a world where justice reigns, peace prevails, and Gods love extends to all people. This community comprises the staff of several national entities: the Office of the General Assembly, Presbyterian Investment and Loan Corporation, the Presbyterian Mission Agency, the Presbyterian Publishing Corporation, Presbyterian Women, and the Administrative Services Group. Join a community of gifted and caring professionals to work closely with the Director of the Center for Repair of Historic Harms in the Presbyterian Mission Agency. The person who fills this position can be based in Louisville, KY or work from a remote location. Position Purpose: To provide administrative support and staff coordination for the Center for the Repair of Historic Harms. To support, without close supervision, the day-to-day activities of all areas of the Center for Repairs work, including but not limited to organizing, preparing, and implementing committee actions and/or referrals from the General Assembly, budget monitoring, organization of meetings and gatherings. Job Description • Embody the PMA Culture Code to support the mission, vision, identity, values and mission work plan of the Presbyterian Mission Agency in attitude, work ethic, behaviors, and relationships! • Establish and grow a warm, hospitable, encouraging, professional and responsive people-first ethos of the Center for Repair. • Provide administrative support to the Director of the Center for Repair and the Center for Repairs Project Manager. This includes, but is not limited to, administrative functions including keeping detailed and accurate records of actions and agreements, payments, communications, scheduling and travel arrangements. • Establish, maintain, and ensure up-to-date and accurate committee meeting records, correspondence, and files (hard copy and/or electronic). Manage cloud-based access to all documentation and knowledge-base for the Center for Repair along with managing careful archiving of records. • Provide primary support for arrangements for meetings and staff meetings ensuring all participants are well prepared and cared for in order to engage fully in the proceedings. Provide support and follow through on actions at meetings. • Monitor budget reports to ensure accuracy, enter journal vouchers and monitor program expenses. Receive and process staff and committee Travel Expense Reports, Credit Card Statements/Receipts, and other invoices and payments. • Participate in the work and common life of the Center for the Repair of Historic Harms Other duties as assigned by supervisor. Education: Associate degree - Bachelors degree preferred. Experience: • Three to five years of administrative and management experience; Experience managing budgets, meeting planning, and record keeping • Knowledge of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). A member of an active congregation of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. is helpful in this work and preferred. Required Skills: • Fluent with digital collaboration and cloud-based knowledge-sharing • Excellent writing and speaking skills • Adaptive in cross-cultural communication • Ability to manage and prioritize a complex workload • Willing and able to work as part of a deployed staff team • Build and sustain trustworthy, healthy constituent and partner relationships • Proficiency in Microsoft Office 365 applications. Helpful Skills: Experience listening to, writing about, and discussing the pursuit of social justice across cultural boundaries. Required Competencies: The successful candidate will demonstrate efficient to mastery level in the following competencies: • Emotional Maturity & Adaptability: The Presbyterian Mission Agency (PMA) is a multi-national organization serving many constituencies with a wide variety of perspectives, values, and interests. Further, PMA is an innovative organization in a significant state of evolution where changes happen regularly and routinely. The successful candidate will possess a positive disposition, be well differentiated, and not easily thrown off balance or become negatively reactive. • Intercultural Competence: Ability to interact and communicate with individuals from different racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds and to respect different work styles and personality types. • Relationship Building/Management: Proven ability to work collaboratively with a focus on building and maintaining strong relationships, both internally and externally. • Accountability: Possesses a bias toward responsibility. They will claim their own mistakes, seek to make it right, and celebrate their wins while sharing credit with their colleagues. • Organization/Resourcefulness/Dependability: Demonstrated…

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