by Kay Tay | Jul 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
At ACT Your Work Makes a Difference
Education has power – a power that changes lives forever. It creates opportunities that lift up individuals, their families, and sparks societal change that echoes through generations to come. From our grassroots we have fought the good fight for equity in education, and we remain devoted to helping anyone who struggles to access that power. This is what matters to us and we must do better — we’ve never been more sure of our purpose.
ACT team members are part of an organization dedicated to a mission that has never been more important: Helping people achieve education and workplace success. Advancing that mission within our organization, by helping our team members achieve education and workplace success of their own, is core to our values.
We want our team members to have the well-being and confidence they need to do their best work, in an environment where both they and ACT thrive. To support this, our total rewards include company paid life insurance, medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, 403B with company contributions, paid holidays, paid time off, and so much more. You can find a comprehensive list of our benefits here.
You will be joining a well-established ACT business unit of individuals with many talents in proposal development, management and writing. You will be part of a hard-working and supportive team.
Work location: This is a remote position.
The Proposal Specialist I is responsible for assisting with the proposal development process for large district and state bids. This includes identifying relevant text, drafting, formatting and editing text, completing proposal forms, and entering the proposal into the procurement sites and/or printing and shipping the proposal. The Proposal Specialist I may also lead smaller proposals, support the distribution and tracking of RFP opportunities, and work with other Proposal Management team members to update and maintain the proposal content library and proposal database. Previous proposal experience is not required for the Proposal Specialist I position.
The finalist will be hired at the salary and level commensurate with their qualifications. For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary in the range of $41,250 – $55,000. ACT manages salaries within the range based on relevant factors including, skills, experience, and internal equity. This position is not incentive eligible.
What you will be working on:
- Support bids by creating and populating response templates, formatting and editing text, completing forms, and drafting some sections of the response as needed, such as cover letters and corporate capabilities.
- For assigned bids, analyze requirements and develop a proposal plan and schedule, lead the cross-functional proposal team through the proposal process, facilitating meetings, making writing and costing assignments, monitoring progress, and compiling, reviewing, editing, compiling and submitting the final proposal.
- Participate in the development of proposal strategy and work with the sales team to ensure win themes and other desired technical content is incorporated into the proposals
- Support the distribution and tracking of RFP opportunities and procurement registrations.
- Work with other Proposal Management team members to update and maintain the proposal content library and proposal database.
- Support on-going process improvement for the Proposal Management team, including creation and/or review of work instructions, standard operating procedures, and other documentation.
This could be the job for you if you have (minimum requirements):
- A minimum of one year of writing, graphic design, and/or project management
- Solid knowledge of Microsoft Office suite including Word and Excel
- Experience with Adobe
- Ability to successfully manage and prioritize competing tasks and deadlines with a focus on quality and timely delivery
- Ability to successfully operate in a fast-paced environment, adapt quickly to change and navigate ambiguity
- Exceptional editorial and document management skills, including adhering to style, grammar, usage, and branding required
- Ability to independently organize, write, and edit proposals
- Ability to work with and interact with team members at all levels, including leadership
- Ability to work extended hours when required to meet tight deadlines
- Uses self-starter approach, ability to multi-task, proactively anticipates and acts on information and details needed, completes tasks with little to no direction
- Ability to communicate effectively across all levels in the organization; including copy editing/proofing and meeting facilitation
- Collaborate and work effectively with individuals inside and outside the organization
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, English, communications, Marketing, or a related area or an equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and abilities can be acquired
It’s a plus if you have:
- Assessment industry experience
- Shipley proposal training
- Change management and customer relationship building skills
- Experience designing brand graphics or visuals
- Experience using SharePoint, Salesforce, or Visio
About ACT
When ACT was founded in 1959, it disrupted the assessment industry with a new approach to helping students better understand their readiness so they could take steps to improve it. By leveraging our expertise and authority in assessment and research, we will again disrupt the industry—helping more people learn, better measure their progress, and improve their navigation through life’s transitions.
More than ever before, ACT is fulfilling its mission of helping people achieve education and workplace success. We’re doing it by pushing the boundaries of learning innovation through the work of our people, who we call team members because we’re all in this together.
We know transformation does not come without challenge. That’s why ACT invests in a variety of experiences for team members to strengthen their connections, explore ideas, learn from customers, and celebrate success.
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by Kay Tay | Jul 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than Walmart and Amazon combined. At Faire, we’re using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.
By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.
About this role
Our Customer Support Team loves helping entrepreneurs achieve their dreams. We work directly with our brand and retailer partners to manage everyday experiences, and ultimately, help make their businesses successful! As a chat-focused customer experience associate, you will provide real-time chat support to our highest value brand and retailers.
What you’ll do
- Support brand and retailers via chat support. The hours for this role are 9am – 6pm PST Monday-Friday.
- Make it your mission to foster exceptional customer experiences across the marketplace
- Serve as the front line, go-to resource for customer questions and platform issues
- Support our brand partners with seamless order processing and catalog management
- Support our retailer partners with order status updates, managing their account, and invoices
- Stay on top of internal policies and Faire product offerings in a rapidly changing environment
- Take ownership to resolve challenging customer issues, and escalate when necessary
- Understand business metrics to measure your personal and team contribution to Faire’s mission
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent years of experience
- 1-3 years of Customer Service, Sales, or related experience
- Able to work 9am – 6pm PST, Monday to Friday and flexible to adjust working hours as business needs require
- Flexible schedule to accommodate business needs during peak season
Salary Range
California / New York: the pay range for this role is $48,000 – 66,000 per year.
Colorado / Washington / New Jersey: the pay range for this role is $43,000 – $59,500 per year.
This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Faire’s flexible work model aims to meet the needs of our diverse employee community by making work more flexible, connected, and inclusive. Depending on the role and needs of the team, Faire employees have the flexibility to choose how they work–whether that’s mainly in the office, remotely, or a mix of both.
Roles that list only a country in the location are eligible for fully remote work in that country or in- office work at a Faire office in that country, provided employees are located in the registered country/province/state. Roles with only a city location are eligible for in-office or hybrid office work in that city. Our talent team will work with candidates to determine what locations and roles are eligible for each option.
Why you’ll love working at Faire
- We are entrepreneurs: Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling and our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Every member of our team is an owner of the business and taking part in the founding process.
- We are using technology and data to level the playing field: We are leveraging the power of product innovation and machine learning to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a growing community of more than 350,000 small business owners.
- We build products our customers love: Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie – not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but using Faire makes it easy.
- We are curious and resourceful: Inquisitive by default, we explore every possibility, test every assumption, and develop creative solutions to the challenges at hand. We lead with curiosity and data in our decision making, and reason from a first principles mentality.
Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Toronto, London, New York, LA, and Sao Paulo.
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by Kay Tay | Jul 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
At Shipt, we are transforming the shopping experience and giving time back to consumers. Shipt Shoppers handpick everything from fresh groceries to household essentials, then deliver them to your door in as little as one hour.
Shipt’s Senior Social Media Manager will lead all social media efforts including best-in-class content, relationship building with members and shoppers, social listening and real-time response. You will work closely with internal stakeholders and external agencies and will manage a team of social media experts.
What You’ll Do
- Social Media Strategy. Develop and execute holistic social strategy for Shipt across all channels including Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Pinterest, Twitter, Linkedin and emerging channels.
- Develop Breakthrough Content. Work with cross-functional partners to deliver compelling, engaging organic social media content to drive brand equity and promote key moments. Oversee all efforts for jumping on real-time moments.
- Paid Social Media. Partner with both internal and external media teams to consult on content developed for paid media and to lead an opportunistic paid-social approach for amplifying organic content.
- Build Community. Lead the community management strategy and execution to increase brand engagement with both shoppers and members.
- Lead Social Listening. Develop social listening approach to keep pulse on brand sentiment and conversation themes and to extract insights to inform content, tone, and brand strategy.
- Own Analytics and Optimization. Own all analytics and reporting across every channel; analyze results to assess and optimize performance, identify trends, and outline key learnings and recommendations.
- Tools and Technology. Ensure the team is leveraging the best tools and technology to drive the strategy and enable analytics, community management, listening, and optimization.
- Team Management and Leadership. Lead a high-performance team of multiple direct reports. Build a strong culture for the team, and drive individual and team development. Create and maintain an inclusive work environment.
- Social Evangelist. Be a social evangelist in the business, helping influence the adoption of, and enthusiasm for, social media across the organization while keeping in mind emerging technologies and trends
Minimum Requirements
- 5-8 years experience managing social media for brand(s)
- History of developing social strategy and driving results across all facets of social media management, including social listening, community management, content strategy, and analytics.
- Strong creative intuition and ability to lead creative teams to breakthrough ideas.
- Balance of strong strategic thinking and flawless execution, with impeccable attention to detail.
- Bias toward innovation and experimentation.
- Excellent communication/presentation skills; ability to inform, influence and negotiate across functions and with all organization levels. Ability to story tell well via PowerPoint.
- Experience with influencer relationships across platforms with a point of view on best practices.
- Technologically savvy with an in-depth knowledge of social analytics and content creation tools
- Experience building and leading an award-winning team.
Employees (and eligible family members) are covered by medical, dental, and vision. Employees are able to enroll in our company’s 401k plan. Employees will also be eligible to receive discretionary vacation for exempt team members, 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year and 56 hours of paid sick leave (accrued at a rate of 1 hour for every 25 hours worked). Other compensation includes eligibility for an annual bonus and the potential for restricted stock units.
Colorado Pay Minimum: $69,937
NYC, WA, and CA Pay Range: $83,842-$167,684
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by Kay Tay | Jul 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
At ACT, Your Work Makes a Difference
Education has power – a power that changes lives forever. It creates opportunities that lift up individuals, their families, and sparks societal change that echoes through generations to come. From our grassroots we have fought the good fight for equity in education, and we remain devoted to helping anyone who struggles to access that power. This is what matters to us and we must do better — we’ve never been more sure of our purpose.
ACT team members are part of an organization dedicated to a mission that has never been more important: Helping people achieve education and workplace success. Advancing that mission within our organization, by helping our team members achieve education and workplace success of their own, is core to our values.
We want our team members to have the well-being and confidence they need to do their best work, in an environment where both they and ACT thrive. To support this, our total rewards include company paid life insurance, medical, dental, vision, flexible spending accounts, 403B with company contributions, paid holidays, paid time off, and so much more. You can find a comprehensive list of our benefits here.
We are seeking a Senior Writer to help us fulfill that mission.
Location: REMOTE
The Senior Writer facilitates the development of cross-product content and content-implementation strategies, working extensively with product leadership, product implementation managers, and operations delivery teams to develop plans for improving and implementing operational content in administration manuals, web pages, emails, and training resources. While writing capability is a significant component, this role requires a deep understanding of the similarities and differences of all ACT products in order to plan and roll out content that meets ACT’s complex product and audience needs, using appropriate communication platforms.
The finalist will be hired at the salary and level commensurate with their qualifications. For this position, we anticipate offering an annual salary in the range of $70,000 – $85,000. ACT manages salaries within the range based on relevant factors including, skills, experience, and internal equity. This position is not incentive eligible.
What you will be working on:
- Takes lead in organizing and developing content for customers implementing one or more ACT products.
- Manages migration efforts into the component content management system and ensures content is distributed to various communication channels as appropriate.
- Leads the development of all cross-product content by representing the department in project discussions in order to plan for and develop content.
- Serves as point of contact for, consults with, and guides planning and decision making on deliverables, including complex, new and/or cross-product initiatives.
- Translates high-level product requirements, communications schedules, and frameworks into detailed, executable content plans.
- Develops, manages, and prioritizes deliverables during content production, and engages key stakeholders in planning for enhancements to content during optimization phases, including:
- determining impact of deliverables
- making recommendations on platform(s) to use
- working with stakeholders to ensure awareness and/or buy-in as needed
- creating documents that meet accessibility requirements for structure (tagging) and alternative text
- Keeps the team informed of the progress on cross-product content development.
This could be the job for you if you have (minimum requirements):
- Five years of progressively responsible professional writing experience that includes experience creating, writing and coordinating technical communications and large volumes of complext content
- Experience in a consultative role or as a team lead
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate and work collaboratively within teams and across the organization
- Excellent writing and editing skills
- Strong working knowledge of graphic design and visual presentation
- Excellent organization and prioritization skills to allow for the handling of multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to turn around high volume of work with focus on quality
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint, and Salesforce
- Ability to work in a range of formats, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Acrobat Pro, and HTML
- Customer-centric focus
- Skills and knowledge required for success in this position attained through experience, education (Bachelor’s degree in English, Communications, Journalism, or a related area of study) or a combination of both
It’s a plus if you have:
- Experience serving customers in the education industry
- Experience using Adobe reviewing tools
- Knowledge of web and pdf accessibility tools
- Knowledge of the requirements and skills in accessibility testing and remediation strategy
- Training in Information Mapping, DITA, and/or other topic-based authoring processes
About ACT
When ACT was founded in 1959, it disrupted the assessment industry with a new approach to helping students better understand their readiness so they could take steps to improve it. By leveraging our expertise and authority in assessment and research, we will again disrupt the industry—helping more people learn, better measure their progress, and improve their navigation through life’s transitions.
More than ever before, ACT is fulfilling its mission of helping people achieve education and workplace success. We’re doing it by pushing the boundaries of learning innovation through the work of our people, who we call team members because we’re all in this together.
We know transformation does not come without challenge. That’s why ACT invests in a variety of experiences for team members to strengthen their connections, explore ideas, learn from customers, and celebrate success.
APPLY HERE
by Kay Tay | Jul 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
USDM Life Sciences is a premier consulting company with 20+ years of experience assisting heavily regulated biotech, medical device, and pharmaceutical companies with their GxP technologies to accelerate growth. Our deep domain knowledge and technology expertise in life sciences business processes are what sets us apart. From strategy to implementation and adoption, we have delivered thousands of GxP projects globally.
As part of the USDM team, you have the opportunity to work with cutting edge technologies through our many partnerships with companies like Microsoft, Google, Oracle, DocuSign, Box, and many more. From molecule to market, you will help connect technology, people, and data in new ways to generate real-time insights to improve business outcomes for USDM’s clients. Are you ready to make an impact and drive real digital transformation in life sciences?
Founded in Santa Barbara in 1999, USDM has grown to a progressive, global company with 300+ remote employees and offices throughout the US, Canada, and Germany.
Nature and Scope of Job
The Data Specialist will be responsible for collecting, analyzing and maintaining regulatory approval data and documents for products across the organization as directed. The Data Specialist will support data conversions for migration into data control software, contribute to data governance initiatives and participate in the definition and mapping of regulatory business processes to control and maintain approval data and documents.
Primary Responsibilities
- Review various regulatory filings, products, labels, IFUs and information systems to identify and collect the relevant approval data and documents required for the launch of data uploads for the MDR and Global Regulatory Information Management System (RIMS).
- Assist with research activities to obtain missing, partial or conflicting historical data or documents.
- Read and use information from existing regulatory documents and information systems to identify and list the SKU(s) covered by a single regulatory approval.
- Analyze data across multiple information systems, identify discrepancies and coordinate with regulatory leads for the impacted product line or region to resolve any data discrepancies.
- Interface with multiple departments including Information Management Systems, Corporate and Regional Regulatory representatives, Quality, Engineering, Product Development, etc.
- Coordinate with various departments to approve and lock data after it has been verified.
- Track progress of data collection and verification as assigned.
- Enter data into established repository by inputting alphabetic and numeric information utilizing training provided.
- Maintain and update regulatory data and documents throughout their lifecycle and as product changes are implemented.
- Assist with documenting processes and procedures for the collection, verification, control, and maintenance of approval data and documents.
- Follow best practices for data collection, data storage and database management.
Additional Responsibilities
- Participate in project team meetings and be accountable for assigned tasks.
- Contribute to the clients regulatory department effort and other regulatory information needs as required.
Qualifications
- 1-2 years relevant experience in data governance, management or analysis.
- Familiar with enterprise software management tools such as Oracle and Agile PLM preferred.
- Must be detail-oriented, proactive, adaptable and a fast learner.
- Must be able to work both in an office setting and remotely.
- Excellent organizational, teamwork, and collaboration skills.
- Demonstrated ability to acknowledge issues or problems and work quickly to identify solutions.
- Basic to intermediate skill in data analysis using Microsoft Excel or similar software.
- Basic skill with common software applications including Microsoft Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Visio and Adobe Acrobat.
Education & Certifications
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
Compensation
Salary/Hourly Rate Range (W2): USD 30.00 – 40.00
The base salary/hourly rate range represents the anticipated low and high end of the USDM’s compensation range for this position. Actual salaries/hourly rates will vary and will be based on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role. The compensation described above is subject to change and could be higher or lower than the range described based on market survey data or budget.
Full-time employees are eligible for health, vision, and dental insurance, life insurance, short and long-term disability, hospital indemnity, accident, and critical care coverage.
Both full and part time employees, who are at least 21 years of age, are eligible to participate in USDM’s 401k plan. Full and part-time employees may be eligible for paid time off.
All employees are eligible for USDM’s rewards and recognition program.
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