Executive Administrative Assistant

Company Description

Forests are crucial to all life on Earth. They capture and store carbon and are one of the most promising, largescale, and cost-effective opportunities to combat climate change. Rainforests also sustain rainfalls, food supply, vital ecosystems, and livelihoods for over a billion people. Protecting them is not just a moral imperative, it is essential for a stable, prosperous, and sustainable future for us all. As the COVID-19 crisis highlights, we live in a fragile and interconnected world where sustainability cannot be taken for granted.

There is increasing recognition of the urgency of climate change. The Paris Agreement in 2015 committed governments to keep the increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels. Over 1,500 major corporations have committed to climate neutrality, and over 40 countries have implemented some form of carbon pricing scheme. After two decades of putting necessary, effective, high integrity standards and market mechanisms in place, Emergent has the historic opportunity to channel this momentum to solving the deforestation crisis.

Emergent helps safeguard the world’s tropical forests by building a global market for forest carbon credits. Countries generate these credits by reducing deforestation and tropical deforestation (called “REDD+”). For forest countries, Emergent provides a guaranteed source of demand by facilitating access to a range of high-volume buyers, backed by a purchase guarantee from donors, giving countries the certainty needed to make investments in forest protection and chart a new course. For buyers, Emergent provides access to the highest quality REDD+ credits, enabling them to meet their climate neutrality goals. Emergent is currently grant-funded but will become self-sufficient through transaction fees as volumes build.

Any plausible pathway to the goals of the Paris Agreement includes the preservation of the Earth’s natural carbon sinks. On land, the most important of these sinks are tropical forests, which hold nearly half of terrestrial carbon and biodiversity. Their destruction for unsustainable agriculture and timber creates 10-15% of anthropogenic carbon emissions - more than the entire European Union.

Emergent is a mission-focused focused non-profit designed to create a pathway to zero tropical deforestation. Emergent acts as an intermediary between forest countries and the private sector, facilitating transactions of high-integrity carbon credits from national-scale forest protection programs. Backed by a coalition of governments, NGOs, and major corporations, Emergent is catalyzing a market that will channel billions of dollars of new funding into tropical forest protection and sustainable development. More information on Emergent and its approach is below.

The Executive Assistant (EA) will report to the Chief Finance and Operations Officer and work closely with other members of the leadership team as well as the Senior Executive Assistant based in Barcelona. The EA is responsible for all administrative functions supporting the Emergent Leadership team.

You will join an exciting organization that deeply cares about growing with people who question assumptions, have strong judgement, execute fast, take ownership, act responsibly, help the team advance and improve its standards.

Responsibilities

This position is based in Sitges, Barcelona and will support employees in various countries around the globe (i.e., US, UK, & Spain in particular). The EA is a key member of the organization and supports our full staff in various administrative responsibilities including but not limited to:

• Arrange virtual office meetings
• Arrange external meetings with various stakeholders
• Calendar management of multiple leaders with MS Outlook Calendar
• Set up videoconferences (domestic, international; from small to very large in scope)
• Document minutes of meetings, document support and MS Excel file management
• Travel booking, coordination, approvals (domestic and international air, hotel, car) and visa support
• Time & Expense and Invoice Reporting and Reconciliation
• Assist with new employee onboarding and new hire orientation support
• Other duties as assigned Job Qualifications
• Minimum 3-years of experience in a professional business support role
• Demonstrated ability to interact effectively with all the levels of an organization.
• Must have experience with Software Tools like and MS Office, MS Outlook and Calendar, Microsoft Teams
• Excellent project management skills.
• Strong organizational skills required, including good time management skills and responsiveness
• Excellent communication skills (both written and oral)
• Ability and comfort interacting with all levels of the organization
• Strong attention to detail
• Motivated team player with a positive attitude who works well in a fast-paced environment
• Successful track record of managing competing priorities eff