Alaska Village Electric is looking for an Executive Assistant & Publicist. If you have a passion for writing, are self-motivated, organized, courteous, creative, and enjoy building relationships then you will be a great addition to the small Executive team at AVEC.

The Executive Assistant & Publicist is a full time position and paid hourly based on experience. The wage range starts at $30.95 per hour.

Alaska Village Electric Cooperative is unlike any other utility in the world, come for the adventure, stay for the challenge and let us WOW you with our benefits.

Join a member-driven electric generation and distribution cooperative serving residents in 58 communities throughout rural Alaska with its headquarters in Anchorage, AK. Alaska Village Electric Cooperative owns and operates 46 small, isolated grids that rely on diesel, wind, and solar generation for prime power. AVEC reaches 11,513 services with 515 miles of distribution line in unique service areas spread over 400,000 square miles of Alaska.

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, short term and long term disability, and life insurance.

As the Executive Assistant & Publicist you will be providing excellent clerical services, administrative support, and public communications for the President/CEO, the Board of Directors, and the membership of the Cooperative. For the Board of Directors, you will be responsible for board meetings, preparing resolutions and action items for board signatures. On the Publicist side, your responsibilities will include creating and publishing media content that promotes the staff, members and goals of the cooperative and writing monthly content for the Ruralite magazine. Other primary duties will include maintaining documents and maintaining relationships with state and federal agencies, city and tribal governments, trade associations and business partners of the cooperative.

The ideal candidate for the Executive Assistant role 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.

If you think you have what it takes to be an Executive Assistant and Publicist for AVEC, the next step is to complete our online application. Don't worry, the application is pretty easy, it simply asks for your resume and to answer some questions to help us get to know you and your experience better. We should warn you though, if you are selected to move further in our hiring process, you will be asked to complete a second stage of the application (this is the fun part where you are asked to provide the more detailed work and education history - yes we know the struggle) and to provide some samples of writing.

Contact Alaska Village Electric Cooperative at hr@avec.org for more information or a full job description.

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.