The application deadline is October 28, 2025 at 11:59 pm Pacific.
Best Starts for Kids is hiring an Administrative Staff Assistant to support the Best Starts for Kids leadership team consisting of cross-departmental teams in Public Health – Seattle & King County and Department of Community and Human Services.
This is a Term Limited Temporary position anticipated to last through December 31, 2027.
Job Duties
- Schedule meetings and maintain calendars for cross-departmental Best Starts for Kids Co-Leads, working independently to prioritize competing time demands.
- Provide support planning, preparing for, taking minutes at, and following up after meetings and/or events, including internal, external, and public meetings.
- Participate in the development, coordination, and support of Best Starts for Kids projects.
- Compose, draft, summarize, prepare, proofread and/or edit documents, contracts, and/or correspondence on behalf of the Best Starts for Kids leadership team.
- Assist in data collection and analysis for assigned research projects; prepare summary reports of analysis.
- Provide information to Best Starts for Kids leadership team on administrative policies and procedures, including but not limited to collective bargaining agreements.
- Develop and implement monitoring and tracking systems to support Best Starts for Kidsโ work processes; administer and monitor these systems.
- Represent Best Starts for Kids and/or Health Sciences on internal committees or task forces as assigned.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Experience, Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills
Our ideal candidate will demonstrate the following (Minimum):
- Understanding of and commitment to ERSJ values, principles, and strategies.
- Demonstrated intermediate skill in using work-related software, including Microsoft suite.ย
- Analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Skill in oral and written communication.ย
- Skill in organization.
- Interpersonal and human relations skills.
- Demonstrated skill in maintaining confidentiality and handling sensitive matters.
- Skill in prioritizing workload and adapting to changes in work-load demand.
The most competitive applicants will have the following experiences and qualifications (Desired):
- Familiarity working with Community-Based Organizations.
- Skill in developing administrative systems or action tracking of work assignments or projects.
- Basic knowledge of information-gathering techniques and principles for research assignments.
- Familiarity working with elected leadership.
Best Starts for Kids
Building on the deep knowledge, connections, and skills within King County communities, and backed by what science and research tells us about human development, the Best Starts for Kids King County initiative meets children and families with the right services at the right time. The first Best Starts for Kids levy, approved by King County voters in 2015, reached 490,000 of King Countyโs youngest children and their families and 40,000 youth and young adults, catalyzing strong starts in a childโs earliest years, and sustaining those gains through to adulthood. In August 2021, King County voters chose to renew the levy with over 62% approval for another six years. The plan for the second Best Starts for Kids levy will maintain current Best Starts for Kids investments in promotion, prevention, and early intervention, while deepening our investments to address critical needs in our community. View the Best Starts for Kids Implementation Plan: 2022 โ 2027.
