Mission and Vision:

The mission of Wallin Education Partners is to ensure college and career success for high potential students from low-income backgrounds, and through our efforts help build diverse, equitable and vibrant communities. We do this through a comprehensive model of financial aid and holistic support, and collaboration with our business, education, community, and philanthropic partners. Our vision is a future where all students have full access to college and career success, where every scholar can reach their full potential, and where our program helps build a more equitable society.

Organization: 

Wallin Education Partners is a proven college completion program that includes financial aid and comprehensive support for students from low-income backgrounds. With a 90% six-year graduation rate compared to 64% nationally, Wallin Education Partners is one of the most effective college completion programs in the country. Wallin’s model of financial aid and comprehensive individual advising accelerates economic mobility and fundamentally increases the odds of graduation and employment for underrepresented students.

Since 1992, Wallin Education Partners has helped increase access to college and degree completion for lower-income students by partnering with high schools, donors, community organizations, and civic leaders to support more than 6,000 students on their college journeys.

Position Overview:

This role is critical to the effectiveness of the organization as we grow to double the number of students we serve over the next five years and expand with new strategic initiatives. The Senior Executive Assistant is responsible for providing high-level support to the President and CEO and Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives to ensure they can efficiently accomplish key tasks and organizational initiatives.

The person in this role will serve as a vital link between these two senior executives and the Board of Trustees, donors, and partner organizations. The Senior Executive Assistant must have impeccable organizational skills, a pro-active approach with the ability to anticipate needs, and proven success in managing multiple projects with multiple constituencies.

Primary Responsibilities:

Senior Executive Support (70%)

• Maintain schedules of the President and CEO and the Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives including scheduling internal and external meetings and communicating clearly, efficiently, and effectively with key constituents.
• Support the senior executives in preparation for key meetings which may include gathering scholar data or program outcomes, research on prospective partners, and producing and/or proofing and formatting professional-quality reports and
• Understand the work styles and workflows of both the President and CEO and Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives to anticipate needs and pro-actively provide information, reports, data, and other material needs and support for key projects, meetings, and initiatives.
• Engage with external partners as a primary point of contact providing a “customer-centric” solutions-oriented approach.

Board Operations (20%)

• Manage all board of trustee meetings logistics including scheduling meetings, tracking and communicating trustee attendance in advance of meetings, and ensuring technology is in good working order for any hybrid or remote meetings.
• Organize and prepare documentation for board and committee
• Maintain the board portal SharePoint site and provide well-organized maintenance of board and governance records
• Coordinate development, compilation, and distribution of board meeting notes, governance committee notes, and other meeting notes as requested.

Other Tasks and Special Projects as Assigned(10%)

Education: BA/BS degree in a business-related field preferred, or associate degree plus a minimum of five years of experience in executive support or project management.

Experience:

• Excellent interpersonal, collaboration, and relationship-building skills to effectively work with a diverse group of people and personalities, including developing relationships with board members, donors, and other constituents.
• Communicates clearly and effectively both orally and in writing.
• Able to gather data, to compile information, prepare reports, and timely manage multiple complex projects with unwavering attention to
• Current in today’s office technology such as Microsoft Office 365 and Experience working with communication and design tools such as Constant Contact, Adobe, and Canva a plus.
• Understands confidential nature of organization information and maintains confidences.

Beyond the basic qualifications, candidates must demonstrate a commitment to Wallin Education Partner’s mission and values—and a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through learning, training, and dialog on an ongoing basis.

Compensation: $60,000 – $70,000 annually.  Wallin EP offers employees a generous benefit package including group health insurance, dental insurance, long- and short-term disability insurance, and a 401K plan.

Additional Info: For further information on Wallin EP, please visit www.wallinpartners.org.

Due to COVID-19, Wallin employees are working in a hybrid capacity. Wallin policy requires staff to be fully vaccinated in order to visit the main office, subject to reasonable accommodation.

How to Apply: If interested, please forward cover letter and resume to Geoff Wilson at hr@wallinpartners.org and include Senior Executive Associate in the subject line; or mail to Wallin Education Partners, 451 Lexington Parkway North, Suite 100, Saint Paul, MN 55104.

Wallin Education Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to providing a work environment that is free from harassment and discrimination. Wallin Education Partners provides equal opportunity to all applicants for employment in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and will not refuse to hire any qualified individual, or otherwise discriminate against any individual by reason of an individual’s race (including hair texture and hairstyles), color, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, pregnancy, childbirth, (or related medical conditions, including, but not limited to lactation), physical disability, mental and/or intellectual disability, age, military status or status as a Vietnam-era or special disabled veteran, marital status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender (including sex stereotyping and gender identity or expression), medical condition (including, but not limited to, cancer related or HIV/AIDS related), genetic information, or sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.