Experienced Executive Assistant interested in chronic illness

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TYPE OF WORK

Part Time

WAGE / SALARY

Competitive

HOURS PER WEEK

TBD

DATE UPDATED

Jun 26, 2026

JOB OVERVIEW

Hey there! We are looking for an Executive Assistant for Sally Riggs.

As our part-time executive assistant, you will be responsible for the day-to-day coordination of this business and team as well as email outreach to prospective clients for public speaking.

First, a little about Sally…

Dr. Riggs is a psychologist working in private practice. But following 2.5 years of managing chronic illness from Long Covid, she is also building a public speaking and Polyvagal coaching business to help people with Long Covid heal. This is an exciting time to join a changing and growing company with a critical mission.

Business Values:

People with Long Haul Covid have just had the worst three years of their lives - debilitating symptoms, the onset of chronic fatigue and disability, loss of job and any meaningful activity or joy in their lives, and repeated gaslighting from the medical community, and often friends and family. But recovery is possible, despite what people are being told.

Yes, this is very much a physiological medical disease, and yes the psychological side can be the cog that is holding folks back from being able to get to a state where their bodies can rest and heal.

Business Mission Statement:

1)To help Long Haulers understand how the mind-body connection plays a role in recovery and in optimizing it to escalate the recovery process for them
2)To reduce medical and other gaslighting of long haulers through advocacy and public speaking to medical and mental health professionals
3) To support Long Haulers in their return to work by educating HR professionals on how to most effectively provide workplace accommodations.

This position is approximately 10 hours a week but has the position to eventually become full-time. We are looking for someone who can handle the following responsibilities and duties:

-Management of the Trello board, task delegation, and task follow-up
-Running weekly staff meetings and managing staff accountability (Current staff includes one tech VA who is also located in the Philippines.)
-Oversee the maintenance and creation of new standard operating procedures (SOPs) for business (or coordinate other staff to do the same)
-One-hour daily prospecting for public speaking leads
-Research leads in search engine provided as per SOP
-Add new contacts to CRM (Airtable and Pipedrive).
-Regularly send emails to cold leads for paid speaking gigs using Pipedrive
-Create and update PowerPoint or Canva slides for public speaking.
-Request testimonials from previous Speaking Event Planners

Our biggest needs are ensuring that deadlines are met, work is complete, and also reaching out to prospective clients for speaking opportunities.

Qualifications and Skills:
-Aptitude for staff management and coordination
-Ability to meet deadlines.
-Extremely good organizational skills (and aptitude for creating new systems).
-Ability to prioritize.
-Ability to communicate clearly, especially over technology such as Voxer and email.
-The ability to ask for clarification when needed.
-Detail oriented.
-Technologically savvy and a desire to increase your tech skills
- Experience with Pipedrive, Airtable, and Powerpoint or similar programs.
-Ability to take on additional tasks and challenges as needed.

Tech we use:
Kajabi
Wordpress
Calendly
Zoom
Pipedrive
Airtable
Google Workspace
Voxer

Time Zone:
Sally needs a tea ---------- mber with flexibility when it comes to time zone. She also runs a private practice where she still sees patients in person some days. She also travels quite a bit. Her primary time zone is EST but she also spends time in the CST time zone and in London. Some overlapping hours would be required.

Bonus if you:
-Have professional experience or an interest in chronic illness communities.
-Have experience with creating content that is ADA compliant

You can learn more about Sally at ---------- .

Please respond only through onlinejobs.ph or you will be disqualified for this position.

If this sounds like you please reply with your resume and any experience you have using "Sally Riggs" as your subject line.

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