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The Senior Administrative Support Specialist is responsible for diversified general administration and clerical responsibilities for our Chief Executive Program Officers. This position organizes and anticipates the needs of the team and takes the initiative to support and seek out solutions. The Senior Administrative Support Specialist understands, supports, promotes, and clearly articulates Friends LA’s mission, vision, values, and principles in daily interactions with internal and external stakeholders.

The HR & Operations Assistant role is vital for providing operational, administrative, and outreach support, along with logistical help for expansion efforts, at the Friends LA headquarters. This position calls for an organized, creative early-career professional with strong administrative skills, detail orientation, and experience in operational systems like Teams, SharePoint, Excel, and Microsoft Office. The candidate should excel in fast-paced environments, possess excellent communication skills, critical thinking abilities, and the capacity to make sound decisions. This role presents an opportunity to contribute to sustainability, security, and equity initiatives within the organization.

Friends of the Children – Los Angeles (Friends LA) is looking for a passionate, committed, professional mentor, who we call Friends, to support our mission to impact generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with trained full-time professional mentors—12+ years—no matter what. Our model is proven to break the cycle of generational poverty for children who face the most barriers by providing paid professional mentors to thousands of youth across the country.

Basic Function:

A Friend works intensively with eight (8) children and their families as a positive adult role model to develop a caring, trusting, and sustained relationship with the whole family. A Friend will set positive expectations; nurture and promote their strengths, talents, and abilities; help assure physical and emotional well-being; teach life and academic skills; provide enrichment activities; and model responsible behavior. A Friend will fully document activities and participate in an ongoing evaluation process. Friends will work primarily one-on-one with their children, and link and support their families to resources as appropriate. A Friend must also know, understand, honor, and support the organization’s mission, vision, values, principles, and policies, and be able to clearly articulate the organization’s function.

Friends of the Children – Los Angeles (Friends LA) is looking for a passionate, committed, professional mentor (who we call a "Friend") to support our mission to impact generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with trained full-time professional mentors—12+ years—no matter what.

Position Overview

A Friend works intensively with eight (8) children as a positive adult role model to develop a caring, trusting, and sustained relationship with each child. For each child, a Friend will set positive expectations; nurture and promote their strengths, talents, and abilities; help assure physical and emotional well-being; teach life and academic skills; provide enrichment activities; and model responsible behavior. A Friend will fully document activities and participate in an ongoing evaluation process. Friends will work primarily one-on-one with their children while empowering their parents to advocate for their children through an ongoing, respectful, and strengths-based partnership. A Friend must also know, understand, honor, and support the organization’s mission, vision, values, principles, and policies, and be able to clearly articulate the organization’s function.