Executive Assistant Manager

Charity Gherardini

Summary of Abilities

Experienced Executive Assistant to Senior Pastor with a demonstrated history in supporting top executives. Skilled in Retail Sales, Communications, Multi-channel Marketing, Event Planning and Customer Service. Strong Administrative Professional with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology.

Professional Experience

THE CHURCH AT LIBERTY SQUARE: EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT & COMMUNICATIONS COORDINATOR CARTERSVILLE, GA

APRIL 2013 – PRESENT

● Plan and execute events, catering, and meetings for 20-3000 people regularly, including monthly board meetings, large congregation services and community-wide events

● Organize and maintain calendars and email accounts for the head Pastor and his wife

● Organize and make travel arrangements for the head Pastor, including international mission trips and conferences

● Recap weekly and monthly attendance statistics

● Maintain and schedule the facility calendar and event rentals

● Support 70+ ministries in meeting coordination and information, including pastoral staff of 8

● Co-Office Manager of 12+ person office

● Sit as administrative support on several steering committees including National Day of Prayer for Bartow County and The Church at Liberty Square’s capital stewardship campaign

● Coordinate weekly newsletter and information that communicates key events and news to the congregation

● Facilitate new member induction, child dedications, and baptisms on quarterly basis

● Maintain Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest social media accounts for church to include unique and creative posts, ad management, and events

● Create marketing plans from start to finish including print, web and video

● Proficiency in MS Office (Powerpoint, Excel, Word, One Note), Outlook and Quickbooks

● General Administrative skills including business correspondence, filing, etc)

● Use Photoshop and Lightroom to create and design graphics TARGET CORPORATION: EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO GROUP VICE PRESIDENT ATLANTA, GA

JUNE 2006- APRIL 2013

● Planned monthly meetings for 10-120 people, including agenda, meals, organization, set up, travel

● Organized and maintained calendars, expense reports using Concur, email accounts for multiple executives (GVP, HR, AP)

● Organized and made personal and work-related international and domestic travel arrangements for Group VP

● Recapped and compiled feedback from multiple field operatives for dissemination to HQ at all levels

● Participated and compiled reporting in annual merit review, corrective action process, salary quotes, new hire paperwork

● Managed office consisting of 20+ employees

● Maintained office inventory

● Coordinated alarm and key codes

● Worked with vendors to maintain equipment

● Organized volunteer events and fun team building events

● Trained new administrative assistants in both Group and District roles

● Led/Managed/Trained 6 district administrative assistants in a “dot dotdot” reporting structure TARGET CORPORATION: EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT TO DISTRICT MANAGER BATON ROUGE, LA

JUNE 2004- JULY 2005

● Planned monthly meetings for 10-120 attendees, including agenda, meals, organization set up, and travel accommodations

● Organized and maintained calendars, expense reports, email accounts for multiple executives

● Organized professional and personal travel arrangements for District Manager

● Recapped and combined payroll, sales and additional ad hoc reporting on weekly, monthly and annual basis

● Participated and compiled reporting in annual merit review, corrective action process, salary quotes, new hire paperwork

● Managed office consisting of 5+ employees

● Ordered office supplies

● Coordinated alarm and key codes

● Worked with vendors to maintain equipment

950 EAST MAIN STREET, #801 CARTERSVILLE, GA 30121 MOBILE 706-***-****

EMAIL ************@*****.***

● Organized volunteer events and fun team building events Education

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY

BATON ROUGE, LA

AUGUST 1997 – MAY 2001

Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology • Double Minor in Classical Studies and Art History Community Involvement

THE CHURCH AT LIBERTY SQUARE, FLOURISH LADIES MINISTRY:BOARD MEMBER 2016 - PRESENT

BARTOW COUNTY NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER STEERING COMMITTEE: BOARD SECRETARY 2014 - PRESENT

MODERN WOODMEN OF AMERICA: YOUTH SERVICE LEADER

2011 - PRESENT

THE CHURCH AT LIBERTY SQUARE, OPEN ARMS PRESCHOOL MINISTRY: VOLUNTEER 2009 - PRESENT

References

Excellent professional and personal references available upon request.

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