The Executive Assistant is an integral role on the executive team reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer. The Executive Assistant will provide high-level administrative and executive support, managing schedules, correspondence, travel, and acting as a liaison between the CEO and internal/external stakeholders.
Responsibilities include (but not limited to):
- Administrative Support: Duties include meeting scheduling, calendar organization, travel planning, phone answering, event planning and other duties as assigned.
- Calendar management. Scheduling, coordinating, and ensuring the CEO's appointments and meetings run smoothly.
- Departmental budget tracking and reporting, expense management: Filing timely expense reports for CEO and maintaining monthly budgets as requested/required by Finance, ensuring that all reports are accurate.
- Assisting in the preparation of reports, presentations, and other materials for the CEO.
- Attending weekly Leadership meetings, taking detailed notes and actioning follow ups appropriately.
- Handling sensitive information and maintaining confidentiality and discretion at all times.
Qualifications:
- 3-5+ years of experience in an administrative support role in a fast-paced environment preferred
- Bachelors Degree preferred
- Experience assisting a C-Level executive is preferred
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications (Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint) as well as Google Suite
- Excellent communicator, both written and verbal
- Incredibly organized and capable of juggling multiple projects simultaneously with a strong attention to detail and follow-up
Personal Attributes:
- Above all, integrity and honesty
- An exceptional work ethic
- Optimism and energy for the brand and its future
- An open and collaborative nature
- A high degree of self-awareness of one’s own personal style, strengths and weaknesses and motivational triggers.
- Critical thinking: the ability to anticipate problems, identify solutions, and make sound decisions is imperative.
- Time management skills: Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills: Ability to build strong relationships with colleagues and external contacts.
- Intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm for learning.
- Enjoys working in a fast-paced corporate environment
- Action Oriented—enjoys working hard and looks for challenges; able to act and react as necessary, even if limited information is available; willing to take unpopular stands when necessary.
Diversity creates a healthier atmosphere: equal opportunity employer M/F/D/V
Salary Range: $75,000 - $90,000 based on relevant experience
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What We Do
The World Surf League (WSL) is a global sports media & entertainment company and the governing body of and path to professional surfing. The league partners with brands to create and deliver transformational partnerships that deliver next-generation, innovative, purpose-driven engagement platforms that have both regional and global relevance and scale. The league owns and distributes the rights to The Championship Tour, which crowns men’s and women’s elite world champions each year. As a top-tier Olympic qualifier, WSL will send 18 top-ranking men and women to France in 2024, located in Teahupo’o, Tahiti.
A division of The WSL, WSL Studios is a full-service original entertainment production engine, committed to delivering a broad range of high-quality lifestyle storylines to the world. Our content is transformative and celebrates surfing, the ocean, and human potential. Our studio is producing documentaries and series for major media companies like HBO, The Walt Disney Company, and Apple TV. Our latest launch is Make or Break season 2, which is a worldwide hit.
The WSL is distributed on television in 525M+ homes worldwide. The league has been a leader in live streaming in the sports industry on platforms like Facebook, Youtube, and WSL.com/APP. The league and its athletes have a collective social following of over 100M+ and are reaching new audiences via connected devices and are one of the fastest growing sports on Tik-Tok.
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