Executive Assistant to President

Description

Greater Atlanta Christian School (GAC) is a premier, independent, PreK-12th grade school located just outside metro Atlanta. We are a faith-infused, academically rich community, recognized for teaching quality, as well as exceptional arts and athletics. We are Christians, change-makers, dreamers, and hard workers. Together, we are raising a generation of inspired, generous leaders. We are a community where high academic rigor is matched by active faith and a deep commitment to caring for one another on a collegiate-style campus.

We live out our passions, our curiosity, and our faith in the collective pursuit to Be Greater.

The Executive Assistant to the President is a highly trusted member of the Office of the President who provides exceptional executive, administrative, organizational, and project support to the President of Greater Atlanta Christian School. More than managing schedules and logistics, the Executive Assistant helps maximize the President’s effectiveness by anticipating needs, managing priorities, facilitating communication, coordinating important initiatives, and ensuring consistent follow-through.

The Executive Assistant serves as a key liaison among the President, Board of Trustees, senior leadership, faculty and staff, parents, donors, and external partners. The successful candidate will demonstrate exceptional judgment, discretion, initiative, organization, communication, and attention to detail while representing the President and GAC with warmth, professionalism, and a deep commitment to the school’s Christian mission.

• Manage and maintain the President’s complex and dynamic calendar, strategically prioritizing meetings, travel, school events, and other commitments.
• Anticipate the President’s needs and proactively prepare information, materials, schedules, and logistics necessary for meetings, travel, and events.
• Draft, edit, and proofread correspondence, reports, presentations, and other communications on behalf of the President, with the ability to appropriately reflect the President’s voice and GAC’s mission and culture.
• Maintain and retrieve historical records and archived information to provide appropriate context regarding prior decisions and initiatives.
• Conduct research and prepare background materials to support decision-making.
• Assist with the preparation of speeches, presentations, and other public-facing materials.
• Organize and prioritize incoming communications (emails, phone calls, letters), and ensure timely responses or appropriate delegation.

• Serve as a professional and welcoming point of contact for individuals seeking access to the President and the Office of the President.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with faculty and staff, senior leaders, Board members, parents, donors, alumni, community leaders, and external partners.
• Exercise sound judgment in determining priorities, routing requests, resolving issues, and determining when matters require the President’s direct attention.
• Represent the President and GAC with professionalism, warmth, responsiveness, and discretion.
• Assist in preparing communications, presentations, reports, and other materials for internal and external audiences.

• Serve as the primary administrative liaison between the President and the Board of Trustees.
• Coordinate Board, committee, retreat, and other governance-related meetings in partnership with the President and Board leadership.
• Prepare and organize agendas, Board materials, presentations, reports, minutes, and other governance documents.
• Maintain Board records, calendars, rosters, and other relevant governance information.
• Track Board-related…