What is it?

I run an expanding consulting firm in Gastown. I help entrepreneurs discover their inherit value and find their most profitable customer. My passion is creating and growing businesses that do well and do good for their communities. I currently work with value-driven businesses creating products and services in Vancouver, Toronto and San Francisco.

Challenge I’m Facing
As my client roster has grown so has my administrative workload and I need to spend less time on booking meetings, summarizing meetings and ensuring we’re on time for project deadlines and errand running.

What I Need

• Organize, file and input business and personal receipts into my accounting software, Xero and Mint.com. Then submitting receipts to my accountant monthly.
• Booking meetings with current clients and partners.
• Taking my notes from meetings with clients and creating ‘homework’ emails that identify next action steps.
• Keeping track of progress on deliverables, not afraid to be slightly annoying and holding me accountable for doing what they said they were going to do.
• Assistance with documenting my process with my clients to create a ‘How-To’ manual for other consultants.
• Occasionally handling errands, including -

1. Sign-up for automated MSP
2. Submit outstanding healthcare receipts to Bluecross
3. Researching social enterprise conferences to go to.

What I Would Like

• Familiarity with Hootsuite and Wordpress to assist with postings of tweets and blog content. This is not essential, but appreciated.
• Ability to track to-do’s and project deadlines in the project management software Basecamp.
• Light market research research of potential leads using Linkedin and publicly available information.

Why should you be involved?
I currently work with ground breaking companies doing well and doing good for their communities. My clients include, or have included, eco-fashion designers, social enterprises inside large non-profits, and web developers. My big, hairy audacious goal is to help 125 clients double in profitability in the next five years. I also lead an advisory board for the charity imagine1day that builds sustainable schools in Ethiopia. They raise money through Creatribution - getting people to do an event that they’re passionate about to raise money for imagine1day. Our team are leaders in strategy, marketing and leadership development and tasked with finding the people, strategy and structure to make Creatribution the preferred way people give to charity in the next four years.

Does this sound like you?
You get your work done quickly and do what you say you're going to do. Friends always remark that you’re never late and you’re the ‘reliable one’ that figures out how everyone is getting home after a night on the town. You read a lot. Like, a lot. Your Google Reader feed is filled with everything from profiles of Jacqueline Novogratzto to Seth Godin’s latest blog post. Twitter, Facebook and Quora are where you spend a lot more time than you care to admit. You’ve got opinions on Vonnegut and aren’t afraid to share them. All this reading means you’re a great writer. While you might get butterflies, you have no problem getting Alex Bogusky on the phone and booking appointments with him. You want to make huge strides in your personal growth and work with people doing the same. If you haven’t noticed already you also don’t take yourself too seriously and love creating friendships that will last a long time.

What kind of time and money are we talking here?
Your responsibilities would be weekly with a commitment of approximately 8-16 hours per week for the first two months. You’re welcome to work from home and do not have to be available every day of the week.

Pay would be $18 - 25 per hour based on relative experience.