Temporary Administrative Assistant

Overview

As we celebrate our Centennial year, we invite you to join us in shaping the next century of impact. Be a relentless force for a world of longer, healthier lives as we remain devoted to a future of health and hope for everyone, everywhere. At the American Heart Association, your contribution matters, and so does your career.

 

We’re hiring a temporary Administrative Assistant in Tyler, TX. This position provides administrative and logistical support for community impact priority issues including hypertension control, nutrition insecurity, community response, and tobacco/vaping. This is a part-time (25 hours per week), temporary position with an expected end date of June 30, 2025.

 

This is a home-based position within Tyler, TX. The ideal candidate lives in the Tyler, TX area to assist with local programming support.

 

The Association offers many resources to help you maintain work-life harmonization through your changing needs and life situations. To help you be successful, you will have access to Heart U, our award-winning corporate university, as well as additional training and support, locally.

 

#TheAHALife is our company culture, our way of life, reflecting our diversity, equity & inclusion, our focus on work-life harmonization and our Guiding Values. Discover why you will Be Seen. Be Heard. Be Valued™ at the American Heart Association by following us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), and at heart.jobs.

Responsibilities

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• Engage in collective community impact efforts, supporting the East Texas Community Impact Director. Including running local errands, delivering resources / supplies, creating marketing collateral, working with vendors, scheduling meetings, hosting health fairs, and tracking community impact goals and progress.
• Assist Community Impact Director in communicating the impact of local work. This may be communication with stakeholders or internal development staff.
• Support clinical engagement, blood pressure program implementation, and help with nutrition access and advocacy campaign work, as needed.
• Support market implementation of hands-only CPR education through community-based events with staff and volunteers.
• Attend internal and external meetings as requested, including health fairs and community events as necessary.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure program implementation is effective and meets established deadlines.
• Showcase corporate and community impact through impact reporting, donor experiences and external facing documents.
• Implement sustainable tracking/implementation systems for community and clinical programs.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or Equivalent.
• 0-2 years of administrative support or similar experience.
• Canva experience highly preferred.
• Understanding of the principles and practices of public health planning, research administration, and evaluation are preferred.
• Ability to follow detailed directions.
• Intermediate Microsoft Office skills, including Excel, Outlook, and Word. Mail-merging knowledge is a plus.
• Effectively communicate via Microsoft Teams chat.
• Ability for occasional travel in the local market; requires access to reliable transportation at all times on an immediate basis.

 

Compensation & Benefits

 

 

The American Heart Association invests in its people. Here are the main components of our total rewards package.  Visit Rewards & Benefits to see more details.

 

• Compensation – Our goal is to ensure you have a competitive base salary.  That’s why we regularly review the market value of jobs and make adjustments, as needed.
• Performance and Recognition – You are rewarded for achieving success by merit increases on an annual basis.
• Benefits – We offer a wide array of benefits including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance, along with a robust retirement program that includes an employer match and automatic contribution.  As a mark of our commitment to employee well-being, we also offer an employee assistance program, employee wellness program and telemedicine, and medical consultation.
• Professional Development – You can join one of our many Employee Resource Groups (ERG) or be a mentor/mentee in our professional mentoring program.  HeartU is the Association’s national online university, with more than 100,000 resources designed to meet your needs and busy schedule.
• Work-Life Harmonization – The Association offers Paid Time Off (PTO) at a minimum of 16 days per year