Executive Assistant & Publicist

Come for the adventure... stay for the challenge and let us WOW you with our benefits.

Join a member-driven generation and distribution utility serving residents in 58 locations throughout rural Alaska with its headquarters in Anchorage, AK. The communities that Alaska Village Electric Cooperative serves receive power via small, isolated grids that utilize diesel generation and renewable sources. AVEC serves the rural Alaska communities with 11,513 meters, 515 miles of distribution line.

If you are self-motivated, organized, courteous, creative, and enjoy building relationships then you will be a great addition to the small Executive team at AVEC.

As the Executive Assistant your duties would include providing excellent clerical services, administrative support, and public communications for the President/CEO, the Board of Directors, and the membership of the Cooperative. This position is responsible for board meetings, preparing resolutions and action items for board signatures, creating and publishing media content that promotes the staff, members and goals of the cooperative, writing monthly content for the Ruralite magazine, maintaining documents, maintaining relationships with state and federal agencies, city and tribal governments, trade associations and business partners of the cooperative, and several additional duties that will help to support the President CEO, Board of Directors, and the Cooperative.

The ideal candidate will be reliable, dependable, have excellent customer service, will thrive on responsibility, communicate effectively, be able to create and compile engaging content and company messaging, be able to read and understand bylaws, tariffs, and other technical documents, and be familiar with Robert's Rules of Order.

Benefits and Pay

Hourly rate based on experience

• Wage range starts at $30.19

The Cooperative offers an excellent benefit package to include an employer-paid pension plan, 401K with an employer match, generous leave starting at 14 hours per month, two different health insurance plans, vision, dental and life insurance.

Contact Alaska Village Electric Cooperative for more information or a full job description.

Standard pre-employment drug screening and background check are required.

AVEC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.