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Assistant to the Global Editorial Director
Advance Magazine Publishers - New York, NY
posted 2 months ago
About the position
WIRED is seeking a highly organized and collaborative professional to support the Global Editorial Director and Deputy Global Editorial Director, along with other executive team leaders. This role involves managing various administrative tasks, including scheduling, travel arrangements, and event organization, while maintaining confidentiality and effective communication across time zones. The position is ideal for someone looking to work in a creative environment and develop new skills, with potential career growth into business management or operations roles.
Responsibilities
- Assist with various scheduling tasks, expense paperwork, and booking travel for the GED, DGED and three other senior leaders
- Assist with scheduling interviews for job candidates and facilitate communication with candidates
- Assist with onboarding new hires and speakers for UK events
- Research story topics and interview subjects for senior editors
- Help organize internal office events
- Tackle special projects, such as helping to coordinate award entries and some tasks related to public-facing US+ UK events
- Greet and escort outside visitors to the office
- Other administrative tasks as needed
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience maintaining confidentiality
- Strong communications skills: clean, concise prose and good grammar
- Experience doing research or information-gathering for projects and reports
- Proficiency using the Google suite of tools including Google Sheets and familiarity with project management tools such as Trello, Asana or Airtable
- Demonstrated professionalism and good judgment when communicating with internal teams and members of the public
- Comfortable working in a CMS such as Wordpress, or willingness to learn
Nice-to-haves
- Familiarity with WIRED's writers and news coverage
- Familiarity with editorial processes
- An interest in technology, science, internet culture, or business news
- Basic knowledge of HTML
Benefits
- Generous employee benefits package
- Discretionary bonus compensation
