Community Marketing Coordinator

Job description last modified October, 2007

Free Geek is a unique work environment. For this reason it is essential that each applicant take a tour of our facility (active volunteers are exempt). Tours are offered Tuesday - Saturday at both 12:00PM and 6:00PM.

Can you make us loom head and shoulders above the competition? Can you help us help the public love and appreciate our greatness? Are you comfortable in a unique, constantly changing, non-heirarchical work environment? Do you know some stuff about marketing, PR and the like? If so, this might be the position for you!

Responsibilities:
 * Work at the front desk part-time
 * Coordinate messages: public email, voice mail outgoing message, FAQ, etc. to be sure they're consistent
 * Create, document, and maintain timeline for paperwork deadlines
 * Organize, maintain, and document a centralized filing system
 * Make communications efficient
 * Recruit/supervise paid and unpaid Front Desk Interns
 * Bookkeeping and staff scheduling support
 * Create, coordinate, and document an efficient system for document flow
 * Manage copies and documents
 * Receive and distribute mail
 * Be responsible for administrative correspondence
 * Perform reception and reception intern coordination backup
 * Attend weekly staff meetings, and other meetings as necessary
 * Work occasional shifts coordinating Adoption and Build Program volunteers
 * Train and take input from staff as necessary in order to do a quality job
 * Participate in collective management structure
 * Miscellaneous responsibilities as needed

Required skills:
 * Friendly, outgoing personality
 * Patient and courteous with the public
 * Likes working with people
 * Detail oriented
 * Good organizational skills
 * Good written and verbal communication skills
 * Able to extract info from current staff and put into rational, transparent system that everyone can understand
 * Empowered and self-motivated organizer
 * Multi-tasker
 * Legible handwriting
 * Basic computer knowledge, use of web browser, email and word processor, database and spreadsheet
 * Able to work in an informal, friendly environment with a diverse staff
 * Work well under stress in an unusual setting, maintaining a positive attitude even in the face of adversity
 * Ability to work and communicate well in a collectively-run organization
 * Ability to work in a consensus decision making process related to staff and policy issues
 * Not afraid to ask questions, but able to work on projects almost entirely without supervision
 * Able to remain flexible as Free Geek grows and changes

Desired skills:
 * Payroll and bookkeeping experience
 * Previous experience in a collectively-run organization
 * Experience coordinating volunteers