March 10, 2025
CFL Executive Assistant & Administrator
The Center for Faith and Learning at Anselm House is seeking an Executive Assistant/Admin to support its growing team. The Executive Assistant will provide executive support to the Director of the CFL and administrative and event coordination support to the CFL team.
Who We Are
Anselm House is a center for Christian studies with a mission to help students and faculty at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) connect Christian faith & knowledge with all of life. The Center for Faith and Learning, a division of Anselm House, is a vibrant community of faculty, staff, and graduate students exploring the resources of the Christian moral and intellectual tradition for the University of Minnesota's academic research and teaching. Each year, we organize several public lectures, roundtables, conferences, forums, and seminars, and we are starting to expand our programming toward specific, discipline-focused engagements.
Our Namesake
St. Anselm of Canterbury was an 11th century theologian, philosopher, monk, and church leader. He is remembered for, among other things, the concept of “faith seeking understanding.” He believed that our faith and our knowledge of the world were interdependent. His life of thoughtful faithfulness provides a model for our presence at the university.
Our Values
Hospitality: We open our lives (and living rooms) to the University of Minnesota community, honoring the heart-soul-mind-strength complex that is every human person.
Character: We cultivate practices that order our lives to the true, good, and beautiful, believing that following Jesus requires careful attention to his way of being human.
Faith: We honor the breadth and depth of the Christian tradition, centered in the self-disclosure and self-giving of the Triune God in the person of Jesus Christ.
Knowledge: We support the University of Minnesota’s disciplined pursuit of knowledge, holding that a personal apprehension of reality is a guide to truth.
Requirements
The successful candidate will have passion for and personal alignment with Anselm House’s mission and vision. She or he will have outstanding organization and prioritization skills, strong attention to detail, and proven excellence in oral and written communication. She or he will be able to anticipate needs and follow through on details, work collaboratively across various teams, and have the ability to manage multiple activities and deadlines concurrently. Administrative and EA experience preferred. Basic knowledge of finance and budgeting, and a Bachelor’s or equivalent degree required.
Details
- Support the CFL Director by reading and routing correspondence, drafting correspondence and documents, and completing other requested administrative tasks.
- Maintain CFL Director’s appointment schedule by planning and scheduling meetings, conferences, phone calls, and travel.
- Coordinate weekly meetings of the CFL team, maintain the agenda, and follow up with all team action items.
- Provide key support to the CFL team in the scheduling, coordinating, and planning of Anselm House’s public and discipline-focused events (lectures, roundtables, forums, workshops, conferences, etc.) Facilitate smooth coordination of CFL events by utilizing Clickup to assign tasks across sub-teams to ensure efficient event planning and implementation.
- Coordinate travel, lodging, catering, and other logistical needs for major events.
- Manage event registration, evaluation, and post-event follow-up, utilizing Salesforce and other tools to help record and analyze data.
- Coordinate Anselm House staff and volunteer support for events as needed.
- Provide onsite CFL event support (will require occasional evening or weekend hours).
This is a full-time, benefits-eligible position at 40 hrs/week. (We are also open to part-time applicants who wish to work at least 30 hrs/week.) Starting salary will be commensurate with the experience and qualifications of the candidate (full-time range $45-60,000 base salary plus benefits).
- Medical insurance with provisional options for vision and dental (including pediatric dental)
- Life insurance
- Parental Leave
- 3% Anselm House match to a retirement savings plan after one year of employment
- Parking or transportation subsidy
- 9 or 10 paid Holidays, and a generous PTO plan
- Discretionary additional paid time off for continuing education or professional development
Apply
To apply, email apply@anselmhouse.org with your resume, along with a letter of interest detailing your interest in this position and your own sense of vocation in connection with the Anselm House mission
We will begin reviewing applications on May 1, 2025.
