Executive Assistant and Office Manager

**Your opportunity**: **Executive Assistant tasks**: - Completing a broad variety of administrative tasks that facilitate the EC's ability to effectively lead their teams, including: hands-on approach in assisting with a variety of special projects. - Sophisticated calendar management for Executive Committee members. - Prioritize inquiries and requests, troubleshoot conflicts, and make recommendations for smooth operations. - Assist with special projects and administrative tasks to support effective leadership. - Design and produce complex documents, reports, and presentations. - Prepare information for meetings and compose correspondence. - Manage travel requests. **Office Management for Zug and Zurich and general support tasks**: - Create inspiring work environments fostering collaboration and innovation. - Serve as the main liaison and maintain physical offices in Zug and Zurich as well as co-working office benefits worldwide. - Oversee general office management, including supply orders, budget tracking, and allocation. - Manage incoming and outgoing mail for the Zug office. - Assist with meeting preparations, room bookings, and catering arrangements. - Welcome and onboard new staff members in the offices. - Identify and secure new office locations as needed. - Administer the Ambassador Program, including appointments and welcome packages. - Manage corporate travel for the Foundation team in collaboration with the CEO Office team. - Record meeting minutes, coordinate deliverables, and facilitate cross-channel feedback. - Collaborate with the CEO Office team to support essential functions within the Foundation. **Your story**: - A minimum of 3 years of experience in a similar role. - Adaptability and Results-Driven Approach: The EA & Office Manager is a highly adaptable and results-oriented professional who thrives in a dynamic environment. - You are an adept problem solver, comfortable with navigating the blend of well-defined daily responsibilities and unexpected challenges. - Flexibility and proactive approach in order to be able to deal with a variety of curveballs and undefined tasks emanating from multiple directions, to ensure the fluency and effectiveness of our target operating model. - Capable of maintaining focus on outcomes and adapting strategies on the fly to meet evolving operational needs. - Strong prioritization skills: Being able to prioritize and incorporate flexible problem solving skills in daily sensitive and time critical tasks. - Showcasing strong abilities to multitask. - Education in Business Administration, Business Executive and / or Project Management. - Location in Switzerland, close to Zurich or Zug. - Fluency in English and ideally fluency in German. **Your impact**: - Develop a clear, structured approach to work for efficient task execution and project management. - Cultivate strong interpersonal skills to earn trust and confidence from peers and stakeholders. - Demonstrate clear and effective communication to facilitate collaboration and understanding. - Achieve goals consistently through a result-driven approach for successful project outcomes. - Establish a reputation for a proactive "go-to" attitude, driving initiatives forward to achieve desired outcomes. **About us**: The Cardano Foundation is an independent, Swiss-based not-for-profit organization. The Foundation is tasked with advancing the public digital infrastructure Cardano and works to anchor it as a utility for financial and social systems, thus empowering the digital architects of the future. Another significant part of the Cardano Foundation’s mission is to engage with and support the Cardano community. The Foundation assists the development of tools the community can use to leverage Cardano to solve problems in new ways. The Cardano Foundation has incredible employees from over 24 nationalities, across 3 continents, working together to grow the Foundation. Here at the Cardano Foundation we are transparent, inclusive, passionate and innovative. We aim to have a positive impact on global change and breed a harmonious working environment for our employees to flourish. **Benefits**: - You will have the flexibility and freedom to work from home with flexible working hours. We work remote, but also have the chance to meet together for team off sites and different events and conferences. We encourage a culture of collaboration in a remote work environment. - You will have access to an annual learning budget dedicated to professional and personal development. Moreover, we encourage and create a deep learning environment where you also learn from the passionate people from your team and during various trainings, workshops and AMA sessions - A day a year is dedicated to a departmental team activity fun day out. - You will have the opportunity to dedicate a volunteering day to help the greater community or to serve as an expert in your field of work within the blockchain community. - You are given an a