Executive Assistant to the CEO

Executive Assistant to the CEO

About Robin Hood

Founded in 1988, Robin Hood finds, fuels, and creates the most impactful and scalable solutions lifting families out of poverty in New York City. The largest poverty fighting organization in New York City, Robin Hood partners with top nonprofits in New York City and invests in legal services, housing, meals, workforce development training, education programs, and other vital services that give New Yorkers in need the tools they need to build better lives. The programs it funds are often the first of their kind and serve as demonstration models to identify what works before being replicated in other cities. Because its Board of Directors covers 100% of all administrative, fundraising, and evaluation costs, every dollar donated goes directly to organizations helping New Yorkers in need.

While Robin Hood’s primary focus is on New York, its impact extends far beyond the borders of the city. Its pioneering, metrics-based approach has become the gold standard for charities around the nation as Robin Hood works to understand and evaluate the impact of its partners to ensure that its philanthropic dollars are utilized to maximum impact. Robin Hood also supports its community partners and their leaders with financial and strategic support and management assistance that allows those organizations to maximize their impact.

Building on our 30 years of experience, Robin Hood is expanding our impact with an explicit focus on lifting families sustainably and measurably out of poverty through supporting the most effective community partners; influencing public policy; raising our thought leadership profile; importing and exporting effective ideas and strategies nationally; and building new collaborations with strategic partners. As New York City emerges from the worst of the global pandemic, we are focused on getting families back on their feet; getting kids back on track; and getting New Yorkers back to work.

Robin Hood also understands that if we are to support families living in poverty and find permanent pathways out of poverty and towards financial independence, we must become an effective partner with government, especially at the City and State levels. We do this by leveraging the expertise of those who are closest to the challenges of poverty, including community members, community-based organizations, and others with specialized skills and knowledge. We also aim to collaborate with New York City government to fund program and policy innovations that hold the promise of expanding economic opportunity in New York City – providing nimble “risk capital” for high-potential strategies. In this way, we seek to leverage our philanthropic investments by finding ways to advance the highest-impact strategies at scale.

Given its long-standing reputation among influencers and support of over 200 New York City non-profit organizations, Robin Hood has the unique ability to be a catalyzing force for households experiencing poverty, bringing distinct constituencies together to develop and spread the most effective strategies to advance economic mobility in New York City and beyond.

Reporting Relationship

The Executive Assistant to the CEO is on the Office of the CEO team and will report to the CEO and the Chief of Staff.

Position Overview

As the Executive Assistant to the Chief Executive Officer of Robin Hood, you will manage the complex, high-volume calendars for the CEO, Chief of Staff, and Chief Program & Impact Officer, serving as the primary gatekeeper and scheduler for these senior leaders and coordinating the critical day-to-day meetings essential to their work.

More broadly, you will act as a strategic partner in maximizing the CEO’s effectiveness — ensuring time is allocated to the highest-priority work, that the CEO arrives at every meeting fully briefed and prepared, and that action items are tracked through to appropriate follow-up. As the forward-facing point of contact for the executive offices, you will bring close attention to detail, sound judgment, and responsiveness to your professional interactions with our Board of Directors, major donors, and senior leaders, while expertly balancing competing priorities and optimizing executive time.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Organize complex calendars and schedules and sustain a daily calendar of meetings and events.
• Use discre…