Personal Assistant Needed
A PhD professor and an engineering marketing professional seek a personal assistant.
The job will be a combination of personal assistant, home organizer, and general to-do list master.
We are seeking someone creative, tasteful, self-sufficient, and demonstrating leadership capabilities.
The majority of the work will be performed around our Grant Park home or online.
Our major criteria are:
- Demonstrating leadership capabilities - does your resume show that you run a student organization, have organized events, or created innovative solutions at work, school, or volunteering?
- Creativity - can you think of solutions, ideas, improvements to things happening around you?
- Tasteful - some of the tasks may involve understanding our style of doing things
- A go-getter - sometimes a great GPA demonstrates this, but show us you are enthusiastic about helping people.
- Interested in CS or technology - some of the work-related tasks will expose you to computing research, computing conferences, and other computer science professors
Some sample tasks:
- Organize our calendar
- Call services such as the lawn service or painters and make sure they will show up on time
- Prepare for parties or family gatherings
- Help us book weekend trips (2 or 3 times per year)
- Organize closets or cabinets
- Return or mail packages
- Make some lunch bags to-go
- Internet searches (work-related or home-related)
- Cleaners trips, occasional grocery run
- Polish up a presentation (make sure the fonts look right, alignment, print to PDF and email)
- Make sure Word Doc footnotes are correct
We'll think of other tasks and put them on a google doc to share.
We want 6-8 hours per week depending on the workload.
Preferably at least 1 day per week where we know you are scheduled for 4 hours (for example, every Tuesday from noon-4)
Document your hours spent.
You should have reliable transportation by car.
To apply send us a resume and 2 brief references. Thanks!
What are we like? Besides studying technology we like indie music, hip-hop and classical music, eurogames, cycling, hiking, motorbiking and travel/world cuisine. We have 2 gentle and sweet (and funny) cats. Hopefully you can help us make more time for that stuff!
Thanks!