Here’s a partial list of some of my adventures while working at Adventures In Missions:
- Edit books
- Buy $22,000 worth of plane tickets in one morning [a group of 50 people going to 2 continents]
- compare phone plans for 2 users who average 4-5000 minutes per month
- interview potential staff and potential mission candidates
- buy cameras – ranging from point and shoot, to flip video, to $20,000 HD movie camera
- price equipment like green screens
- talk to wives of country music sensations and NFL players about missions
- prepare initial disaster response plans for Haiti [esp mail campaign and publicity]
- build websites
- write procedure manuals
- teaching and training
- reconcile Am Ex expenses in the thousands and tens of thousands for boss
- Skype with people all over the globe
- manage budgets
- solve travel issues at 2 am via phone for teams in Thailand
- study traffic on the web for boss stuck in Atlanta trying not to miss a flight
- host board meetings
- travel to Tijuana, Matamoros, Lima, Los Angeles, Colorado Springs, and Kensington [Philly]
- develop infrastructure for 11 month worldwide mission trip
- design annual report
- host missionaries
- plan direct mail campaign that raised tens of thousands
- review/organize photos and videos for use in documents, calendars, reports, websites, books, blogs
- manage calendar for executive director
- order countless books on Amazon
- manage 100+ emails per day
- personal travel agent for Exec Director traveling worldwide
- read books on fundraising and marketing
This is just a partial list to give you a sense of what a great job it was
Six years of exhilarating variety!
