PROJECT ASSISTANT/EXECUTIVE
Hours of work: 2-3 days per week.
Contract: £22-27,000 pro rata, depending on experience. 12-month contract, with the potential to extend.
Location: Remote. One or more days working in Suffolk (Halesworth or Southwold) is highly preferable.
Start Date: As soon as available.
Overview
Pangea has an ambitious mission: to establish Europe’s first large-scale elephant sanctuary and nature reserve. We will work with zoos, circuses and governments to provide elephants with a home that meets their uniquely complex psychological, physical and social needs, whilst also inspiring social change and political action that in turn leads to the improved welfare and conservation of elephants. Our recently acquired 1,000-acre estate, deep in the heart of Portugal, will be managed in line with progressive rewilding principles to create an expansive, natural habitat in which both elephants and native wildlife can thrive.
It is now time to launch the next phase of operations, and this includes the recruitment of a passionate, energetic, and tenacious Project Assistant/Executive.
Reporting to the Managing Director, this is an exciting opportunity for a positive, confident, highly organised, flexible, and self-motivated individual who has a passion for elephants and the wider natural world. The successful candidate will be keen to learn and happy to perform a variety of duties that help to drive the project forward, from general administrative tasks through to research, writing content, and reaching out to new and existing donors and partners.
Duties
The Project Assistant will be responsible for the following:
- Writing content such as blogs or reports
- Maintaining and updating the database and stakeholder management plan
- Communicating with new and existing contacts on email, by phone, or through in-person meetings
- Online research
- Updating the website and dealing with simple IT support issues
- General administrative tasks including but not limited to booking meetings, arranging travel, filing, scanning, collating resources, managing & responding to emails, organising calendar and contacts, taking meeting minutes, or managing financial reports.
Person specification
The successful applicant should have:
- A positive “can-do attitude”
- Good attention to detail; methodical and organised
- Good numeracy skills; comfortable with data and accounts
- Exceptional interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral and written communication
- Good IT skills including Word, Excel and basic website updating, and social media
- Existing passion for environmental/conservation/animal welfare issues. Knowledge of these issues is a highly desirable bonus
- Ability to work unsupervised and take initiative
- Previous experience in a communications, events, personal assistant or project assistant role
- Experience in fundraising, or a desire to learn the skills.
How to apply
Please email kate@pangeatrust.org with (i) your cv (ii) a covering letter explaining why you would like the position and what you will bring to the role.
