Project Associate, EAB Seramount (Entry-Level)

At EAB, our mission is to make education smarter and our communities stronger. We work with more than 2,800 institutions to drive transformative change through data-driven insights and best-in-class capabilities. From kindergarten to college to career, EAB partners with leaders and practitioners to accelerate progress and drive results across enrollment, student success, institutional strategy, data analytics, advancement, and the workplace.

Seramount, part of EAB, is a strategic business dedicated to providing employee-centric talent solutions and strategies that help forward-thinking organizations prepare for the workplace of tomorrow. We provide employers with integrated tools that provide a strategic and holistic map for setting new workplace culture standards. Over the past four decades we've built deep, data-powered intelligence on the employee experience, allowing us to address specific client workplace challenges. We excel in serving as our members' go-to partner in developing and progressing their strategies to unlock what's possible with a truly engaged workforce. Our business is in growth mode and offers the right person the opportunity to be a part of a dynamic, creative, and highly skilled team partnering with leading companies to advance more inclusive corporate cultures.

At EAB and Seramount, we serve not only our partner institutions and organizations but each other-that's why we are always working to make sure our employees love their jobs and are invested in their communities. See how we've been recognized for this dedication to our employees by checking out our recent awards.

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The Role in Brief:

Project Associate, EAB Seramount

As a Project Associate, you would be responsible for the day-to-day workings of the leaders you support, a team of experts who partner with all businesses to address strategic objectives. It goes without saying that your assistance will be needed in calendaring and meeting management and special projects, but this job is very much about people.

The Project Associate will gain experience and expertise in business operations. The Project Associate will serve an important role both internally and externally as a liaison, information resource, and key point of contact. The position will report into the Managing Director, Seramount Chief Diversity Officer Collaborative.

This hire may be based in Washington, D.C. or Richmond VA.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Act as an internal and external liaison for Seramount
• Collaborate across teams and divisions to provide high-quality, seamless customer service
• Maintain leaders' calendars
• Identify and manage engagement events for the department and central operations team
• Oversee logistics for key department communications and initiatives, including leadership weekly updates, town halls, special events, etc.
• Work with team to manage schedules, content, speakers, session notes and materials, etc. for all continuous training work in Seramount
• Collaborate with team managers on department communications
• Manage other administrative duties and special projects

Basic Qualifications:

• Excellent academic record
• Bachelor's Degree
• Must possess at least two of the following:
  
  
  
  • Customer service experience
  • Experience working in a team environment
  • Experience in an office setting
  • Leadership experience
  
  
  
  

Ideal Qualifications:

• Ability to work independently and autonomously
• Proven ability to meet and exceed internal and external customer expectations
• Proven ability to manage and troubleshoot basic technology platforms
• Attention to detail
• Solution-focused problem solving
• Experience developing personal organization tactics to meet business goals
• Proven experience managing multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
• Discretion with sensitive material and communications
• Experience with Excel
• Commitment to embracing a continual learning environment and contributing to a dynamic and welcoming culture of fairness, authenticity, and belonging in support of EAB's mission, values, and aspiration

If you've reached this section of the job description and are unsure of whether to apply, please do! At EAB, we welcome new perspectives and learn from each other's unique experiences. We would encourage you to submit an application if this is a role you would be passionate about doing every day.

Compensation:

The anticipated starting salary for this role is $41,000 per year.

Benefits:

This opening is not eligible for visa sponsorship at this time; EAB will thus consider candidates who possess U.S. work authorization that does not require employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future.

At EAB, we believe that to fulfill our mission to "make education smarter and our communities stronger" we need team members who bring a diversity of perspectives to the table and are committed to fostering a workplace where each team member is valued, respected and heard.

To that end, EAB is an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we make employment decisions on the basis of qualifications, merit and business need. We don't discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law.