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Looking for a skilled Chief Of Staff! Based in Remote, this role is available for an immediate start. Key to this role is your expertise in Project management skills. A salary of $62k - $72k per Year is offered.

Company Overview:

uConnect is on a mission to help more people realize their potential by improving access to career services for all people - early in their lives and throughout their careers. Focused on the traditional higher education market, uConnect's All-In-One Virtual Career Center is used by a wide range of institutions including UCLA, MIT, and Baton Rouge Community College to radically improve utilization of career services, career readiness and student outcomes.  We're a mission-driven team working in a fun and collaborative culture which puts people first. uConnect is backed by leading technology investors including Growth Street Partners, Strada Education and LearnLaunch.

Job Summary:

We are seeking a proactive and strategic Chief of Staff to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the uConnect Executive Leadership Team (ELT). The Chief of Staff will be responsible for driving forward progress on cross-functional initiatives that support company goals, identifying and managing administrative frictions that impede the ELT, and improving the efficacy of meetings, processes, and tools the ELT uses for collaboration. This part time role will partner closely with the CEO to support the ELT, and requires exceptional project management skills, interpersonal abilities, and business acumen. The ideal candidate has worked with executive leadership of startups and high growth companies previously, and has a track record of successfully influencing executives to better outcomes through their work.

• Optimize Executive Team Functionality: Identify and drive key initiatives that improve workflows, eliminate roadblocks, and enhance collaboration to maximize ELT productivity.
• Drive Strategic Priorities: Partner with the CEO and ELT to develop actionable plans and drive accountability across the organization to achieve company goals.
• Support Executive Collaboration: Manage communication, scheduling, and planning of key ELT meetings, including quarterly offsites, the annual company meeting, board meetings, and other strategic meetings that support executive collaboration and decision making. 
• Manage Key Projects: Provide support to the CEO and Executive Team with special projects, initiatives, and tasks as needed.

• Experience working in operations, strategy, or administrative roles adjacent to or on an executive team, preferably in a high-growth SaaS environment.
• Senior presence -- can convey complex information to executives clearly and concisely; can resolve business tradeoffs. Effective communicator across levels and audiences.
• First principles problem solver -- dimensionalizes problems, demonstrates history of lateral thinking and iterative, analytical improvements
• High EQ -- works well with stakeholders, gains trust, adapts easily to different executive work and communication styles
• High ownership mentality demonstrated by driving complex initiatives that lead to systemic change in previous roles
• Does not lose sight of the big picture, but a consistently strong executor comfortable with high volume context switching and a range of tasks across levels and functions

• Sick Time
• 401k