Job Description
The Program Associate provides high-level, comprehensive strategic and administrative support to the President while maintaining a high level of confidentiality. This role is responsible for managing calendars, helping with prioritization of tasks, serving as the gatekeeper for requests, staying abreast of the latest climate trends and updates, and ensuring that the principal is adequately prepared for all meetings. This role exists to increase the operational efficiency and effectiveness of the President to better serve Sequoia Climate Fund and external partners.
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All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
SEQUOIA CLIMATE FUND’S INSTITUTIONAL CULTURE OF RESPECT, DIVERSITY, AND INCLUSION
Sequoia Climate Fund believes we are strengthened by the diversity of our staff, and welcome such diversity including race, gender identity or expression, educational attainment, disability, veteran status, and personal experience with the criminal justice system. We welcome applications from people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences, and we strongly encourage people of color and persons with disabilities to apply. We actively cultivate an institutional culture that reflects the values of respect, equity, and inclusion that we seek to amplify in the larger world.
Sequoia Climate Fund hires, promotes, and retains employees based on their professional qualifications, demonstrated abilities and work performance, as well as on the degree to which these qualities are required in the employment positions made available by Sequoia’s service needs and business requirements. All personnel decisions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, compensation, assignment, training, promotion, discipline and discharge, are made without discrimination based on any protected characteristic as defined by law, e.g., race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, domestic partner status, veteran or military status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, and prior criminal convictions, as well as educational attainment.
COVID-19 HIRING UPDATE
We have temporarily transitioned to a work-from-home model, and this role is expected to begin as a remote position. To ensure the safety and well-being of our employees, we will continue to monitor the situation and follow the recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), as well as local advisories from the California Department of Public Health and the Orange County Health Care Agency. ONCE CIRCUMSTANCES ALLOW, STAFF WILL BE REQUIRED TO WORK FULL-TIME FROM OUR OFFICE IN IRVINE, CALIFORNIA. We are flexible and willing to discuss the logistics and financial considerations raised by relocation, if needed.
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