Portland West - Area Administrator I

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Job Specific Working Conditions:

Job Title: Area Admin I
Organization:Portland West Young Life
Location: Portland, Oregon
Reports To: Area Administrator II
Employment Type: Part-Time (15-25 hrs/week)

Salary Range:$17.00-$21.45/hr

Position Summary:

The Office Administrator provides administrative, donor care, communications, financial, and event support to Portland West Young Life. Working closely with and reporting to the Area Administrator, this role helps ensure smooth and efficient office operations by managing donor correspondence, communications, databases, financial processes, mailings, and ministry support systems. The Office Administrator also attends event planning meetings, takes minutes, communicates follow-up administrative tasks, and assists in the production of three annual fundraising events (October, January, and April). This position serves as a key liaison between staff, volunteers, donors, and Young Life administrative offices. The ideal candidate is organized, detail-oriented, relational, and passionate about supporting the mission of Young Life through excellent administrative service.

Area Office Administrator I

Summary:
This position provides administrative support, enabling the Young Life field ministry area office to function an organized and efficient manner.


Essential Duties:

Written and Verbal Communication

Answer correspondence, do filing and prepare mailings.

Answer phones.

Respond to voicemail, e-mail and phone calls in a timely and professional manner.

Gather articles, pictures, layout, production, mail, etc. for newsletter from area staff.

Create club/event postcards, flyers, and/or maps.

Send prayer e-mails and monthly updates.

Send personal support mailings.

Create and maintain area M-Site.

Send thank-you letters to donors.

Interact with area office assistant, area directors, area committee, volunteer team leaders and leaders with area.

Administration

Process and track donations.

Maintain donor and leader databases, ensuring that leader forms, driver questionnaires and criminal background checks are up-to-date.

Manage monthly expenses and budgets, including area bank account records, FDT, area and staff expense reports.

Accounting: pay bills, submit bank account records/purchase card expenses and donations and make copies, evaluate financial monthly status and update FDT each month.

5.Maintain contact databases including the following:

Update area donor database on a regular basis.

Enter club card data into kid database.

Update parent database.

Maintain newsletter recipient list.

Create and maintain banquet invitation list.

Update contact in Palm/Outlook.

Update e-mail distribution lists: club kids, campaigners, committee, leaders and prayer partners.

6.Human Resource for Regional Administrators

Track and report vacation, sick and personal days for eligible area staff.

Submit timesheets for hourly staff.

Complete Personnel Action Requests and required documents to hire or terminate area staff and forward to region for approval.

C.Event Administration
1.Coordinate area meetings, including:

Area Staff Meetings

Area leadership meetings

Area committee meetings

2.Camp

Track participation, payments, health forms and how much each kid has earned in fundraisers.

Send letters to parents about camp sign-ups, itineraries and health forms.

Responsible for fundraiser marketing.

Construct and distribute camp brochures.

Communicate with camp regarding camp contracts, R2 deposits, A-forms, housing request forms and 10-day call-ins.

3.Banquet/Golf Marathon/Auction

Create invitations, banquet sponsor packet, table host packet, banquet program and donor cards.

Track guest list, table sponsors, RSVP list and donations received from banquet.

Coordinate with table hosts about their invitation lists.

Mail invitations.

Send thank you notes to banquet donors.

Track table sponsors.

D.Training
Provide training to area office assistant, area directors, area committee, volunteer team leaders and leaders with various items, processes and applications related to field administration.


Working Conditions:
Office Environment


Education:

High school education or its equivalent.

Associates degree preferred.

Ongoing education encouraged.

Experience Required For The Job:

Previous administrative assistant experience preferred.

Ability to type 55 to 60 words per minute with few errors.

Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (which includes Word, Excel, Outlook and PowerPoint).

Strong organizational skills with attention to detail and processes with the capability of handling concurrent tasks and constant interruptions.

Good grammar skills and strong written and verbal communication skills.

Ability to maintain confidentiality.

Basic accounting skills.

Detail oriented multi-tasking ability.

Proven relational skills with both kids and adults.

Initiative with developing processes/systems around events – data organization and maintenance.

Great customer service skills.