Do you want to help fight global climate change? Business Week named OPOWER (previously Positive Energy), one of the Top 50 Tech start-ups to know about. OPOWER’s success at reducing household energy consumption has been recognized by the New York Times, Good Morning America, the LA Times and even President Obama. The Arlington, VA based company continues to expand our team! We are hiring a Special and Administrative Assistant to the CEO and President.

About the Job
OPOWER has experienced tremendous growth since our founding in early 2007 going from 2 people to over 60 and the work schedule of the CEO and President are challenging. We seek a special assistant with previous experience serving a senior executive or organizational leader to provide our two co-founders with full-time administrative and special support. The primary responsibility for this position is to ensure that the CEO and President are as productive and efficient as possible. You will be expected to perform complex administrative tasks, often multi-tasking. You must demonstrate an inclination to work hard, resourcefulness and strong communication and organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for oversight of CEO and President’s offices. Handling high-level contacts and communications.
• Prioritizing tasks and proactively managing CEO and President’s schedules and needs
• Planning and scheduling of all travel. This includes flights, hotels, and all logistics related to meetings and conferences
• Arranging and participating in board meetings and management meetings, taking minutes, providing following-up correspondence.
• Undertaking research, analyzing and interpreting information to ensure objective and complete information is provided to CEO and President.
• Composing correspondence dealing with issues or subject matter in ways that requires considerable sensitivity, discretion, judgment, or negotiation in replying to inquiries, and/or presenting or requesting information
• Managing databases, creating spreadsheets and presentation slide decks
• Organizing, and filing for the Executives
• Undertaking special research projects


About You

• You have Bachelor’s degree.
• You have a minimum of three years of work experience. Political background or experience in start-up/entrepreneurial environment preferred.
• You have outstanding reading, writing and verbal communication skills.
• You have the ability to work well under tight deadlines and respond to rapidly changing demands
• You possess excellent organizational skills with the ability to prioritize tasks and anticipate needs. Can manage sensitive and confidential information with discretion.
• You are attentive to detail and always follow through
• You exhibit strong process-oriented skills and strive to find the most efficient way to do things without sacrificing a high quality of work and/or results
• You must exhibit professionalism, poise, courtesy, and strong interpersonal skills
• You are outgoing, resourceful and tireless. A good sense of humor and infectious laugh are preferred.

About the Company
Founded in June 2007, OPOWER creates innovative software products that promote energy efficiency by empowering residential consumers to make better decisions on their energy usage. Through a combination of home energy reports, carbon calculators, web applications, data analytics, and customer service tools, OPOWER is reshaping the outlook on home energy demand and achieving unprecedented energy savings across hundreds of thousands of households. The company is well funded and making big headlines as they stay on track to saving enough energy to power a city of 75,000 homes and to reaching one million households by the end of 2009.


TO APPLY: Please e-mail resume to 44250-CS-2051@opower.hrmdirect.com