[[I am seeking]] sidekick(s)/assistant/chief of staff. ## Position Details I'm quite flexible on specifics. Part-time or full-time. Location: Remote (awake and accessible sometime between 5am and 4pm ET) Wage: depends on hours/experience/what you need ## Ultimate goals of the position 1) Free up 25% of my time use so that I can devote more time to to [[be here now|being here now]] 2) Carry out activities for [[I am Em]] that I would like to have done but do not have the time to do or to do as fully as I would like 3) Provide consultative insight and suggestions on a variety of programs  4) Proactively give ideas/etc to push me to be more efficient and to help me better decisions in general ## Types of Activity - Personal Assistant Work ~ 25% of time - Monthly expense reports (and reimbursements when they happen) - Help me send out personal birthday messages to people. - Once a week provide positive feedback on social media to Pivot volunteer Facebook posts - Small bits of research that occasionally need to be done in response to emails or questions that arise - Sometimes (though not always) booking travel and hotels and car rentals - Draft and send responses to low-value and some cold-contact emails , as well as Facebook messages - schedule calls  - assist with personal tasks that are unrelated to Pivot but that, if done, would free up more time for pivoting food investment work - Add my signature to documents ## Program Support Work ~ 50% of time - Assist with reviewing and vetting applicants for new positions - Assist with finding potential good candidates for new positions - Monitoring and summarizing for me weekly the progress of each individual campaign and the progress of general outreach discussions in each location - Providing suggestions on novel campaign tactics and strategies - Monitoring and summarizing GFI’s progress on clean meat and and providing suggestions for actions and strategies GFI or Pivot could take to more rapidly advance the progress of clean meat - Assist with research work needed on various projects or questions - Provide suggestions in response to various questions and challenges - Help ensure follow-up on projects where the ball is in someone else’s court to move forward - Assist with drafting reports for donors on program success, etc., when I would otherwise be the one having to do those reports ## Novel Projects ~ 20% of time - Oversee book completion - Oversee creation of new website - When time permits, oversee pitching Em to do talks Killer Profits - Put together short essay on what lessons we can take away from research done this far on designing advocacy materials - Do research and provide suggestions on food market white spaces for novel types of products or companies Pivot should help get created ## Coaching Work (Goal 4) ~ 5% of time - Look for opportunities and point out solutions for how I can be more efficient with my time (through suggesting different processes or approaches, suggesting he delegate certain tasks, suggesting I ignore certain things, etc.) - Provide general suggestions on prioritization and decision-making - Help be an ear for me so I can understand how I can do better with other staffers, and how the organization can do better overall in terms of culture, process, new ideas, etc. ![[pivoting food investment#Focuses]]