Operations Executive Assistant

Strongward is a long-term disaster recovery organization. We exist to transform disaster from tragedy to strength, equipping hardest-hit homeowners and communities with the capacity to emerge stronger than before. Our services are currently offered across eight states in the South, with active rebuilding sites in New Orleans and communities across Florida.

• Safe Homes
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  We partner with disaster-impacted homeowners to rebuild homes, restore stability, and create a path forward through our Recovery Services. We help families return home faster, and we strengthen their homes against the next storm. We provide hands-on support in navigating and appealing disaster funding decisions that shape the recovery of hardest-hit homeowners with the fewest resources.
• Stronger Communities
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  Through our Advisory Services, we help under-resourced, high-risk communities build local capacity before and after disaster. Our team of subject-matter experts and Resilience Fellows provides training, consulting, and hands-on support so local leaders can build knowledge and recovery systems that stay in place long after outside support ends.

Joining Strongward is more than just joining a workforce. Many organizations focus on the immediate aftermath, when attention and funding peak. Strongward is one of the few disaster recovery organizations built specifically for the long aftermath. We work in the silence after the cameras leave, and we stay until the work is done.

The Operations Executive Assistant provides high-level administrative, operational, and project coordination support to the Chief Operations Officer. This role manages executive scheduling, meeting preparation, stakeholder coordination, follow-up, operational records, reporting, budget tracking, and confidential communications. By anticipating needs, organizing priorities, maintaining accurate systems, and ensuring timely follow-through, this position enables the COO to focus on strategic decision-making while strengthening operational efficiency, cross-functional alignment, accountability, and execution of organizational priorities.

• Manage the COO’s calendar, inbox, travel, and daily priorities; anticipate scheduling conflicts, protect time for high-priority work, and ensure the COO is prepared for meetings, decisions, and deadlines.
• Serve as a trusted liaison for internal and external stakeholders, screening requests, coordinating follow-up, and escalating issues that require the COO’s attention.
• Prepare agendas, briefings, meeting materials, minutes, action item trackers, presentations, and follow-up communications for board, executive, and cross-functional meetings.
• Maintain organized records, confidential files, operational documents, administrative systems, and standard operating procedures to ensure accurate information, efficient workflows, and strong internal coordination.

• Maintain tracking systems for operational commitments, decisions, deadlines, and action items, ensuring follow-through to completion.
• Support monitoring of programs, projects, initiatives, and operational budgets, including expense tracking, budget updates, and adherence to approved spending plans.
• Coordinate invoices, purchasing documentation, reimbursements, and expense reports, ensuring accuracy, timeliness, and appropriate approvals.

• Act as a central communications point for the operations team, ensuring timely, professional, and accurate coordination with internal and external stakeholders.
• Draft, edit, and coordinate correspondence, presentations, talking points, and other communications on behalf of or in support of the COO.
• Exercise sound judgment and discretion when handling sensitive information, personnel matters, organizational priorities, and confidential records.

• Makes routine administrative and coordination decisions within established policies, procedures, and priorities; escalates sensitive, high-risk, or strategic matters to the COO.
• Supports budget monitoring, purchasing documentation, invoices, reimbursements, and expense tracking without independent budget approval or contracting authority unless specifically delegated.
• Coordinates timelines, follow-up, and deliverables across teams and vendors on behalf of the COO, ensuring accountability without formal supervisory responsibility.
• Handles confidential operational, financial, personnel, and organizational information with discretion and in alignment with Strongward policies and applicable legal requirements.

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in business administration, nonprofit management, operations, finance, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Experience: Typically requires 3–5 years of progressively responsible experience providing executive-level…