Personal Assistant / Organizer

Personal Assistant Needed A PhD professor and an engineering marketing professional seek a personal assistant. The job will be a combination of personal assistant, home organizer, and general to-do list master. We are seeking someone creative, tasteful, self-sufficient, and demonstrating leadership capabilities. The majority of the work will be performed around our Grant Park home or online. Our major criteria are: - Demonstrating leadership capabilities - does your resume show that you run a student organization, have organized events, or created innovative solutions at work, school, or volunteering? - Creativity - can you think of solutions, ideas, improvements to things happening around you? - Tasteful - some of the tasks may involve understanding our style of doing things - A go-getter - sometimes a great GPA demonstrates this, but show us you are enthusiastic about helping people. - Interested in CS or technology - some of the work-related tasks will expose you to computing research, computing conferences, and other computer science professors Some sample tasks: - Organize our calendar - Call services such as the lawn service or painters and make sure they will show up on time - Prepare for parties or family gatherings - Help us book weekend trips (2 or 3 times per year) - Organize closets or cabinets - Return or mail packages - Make some lunch bags to-go - Internet searches (work-related or home-related) - Cleaners trips, occasional grocery run - Polish up a presentation (make sure the fonts look right, alignment, print to PDF and email) - Make sure Word Doc footnotes are correct We'll think of other tasks and put them on a google doc to share. We want 6-8 hours per week depending on the workload. Preferably at least 1 day per week where we know you are scheduled for 4 hours (for example, every Tuesday from noon-4) Document your hours spent. You should have reliable transportation by car. To apply send us a resume and 2 brief references. Thanks! What are we like? Besides studying technology we like indie music, hip-hop and classical music, eurogames, cycling, hiking, motorbiking and travel/world cuisine. We have 2 gentle and sweet (and funny) cats. Hopefully you can help us make more time for that stuff! Thanks!