Rachel Geist

Provide direct administrative support for the Youth Director, the Children's Ministry Director, and the Music and Fine Arts Director in addition to providing support for adult education programs, missions, and senior adult activities and ministries. This involves fundraising, event coordination, coordinating multiple calendars, managing volunteers, purchasing curriculum, arranging meals for large gatherings, overseeing the church nursery, and organizing front office volunteers. Other duties include maintaining office equipment, ordering office and sacristy supplies, coordinating the ushers and greeters for Sundays, ensuring the children's Sunday school teachers have their weekly lessons and supplies ready for Sunday, keeping information slides on the youth and children's televisions current, overseeing the sanctuary set up for Sundays, assisting the pastoral team as needed, interacting with the local homeless population to put them in touch with the resources needed, and answering the phones.

During the regular school year this position involved assisting the 3's teachers in the mornings, and led the 4's class in the afternoon. This involved making sure curriculum was ready, snacks and lunches were put out, children had their naps, and ensured seamless transitions to extra curricular activities. During the summer months it included teaching 1st through 4th grade classes and chaperoning children on field trips.

Serving as temporary assistant in several office environments until being assigned to the commercial real estate division of a local property management company. Duties included coordinating workmen to service the properties, preparing and submitting monthly reports to property owners, ensuring tenants met code and lease compliance, and ensuring tenant and owner insurance policies were up to date. This position not only involved supporting the Honolulu team but also the relators on the other islands.

In the Fleet Department I was responsible for coordinating mileage report for all the district and regional managers as well as the senior executives., making sure all company vehicles as well as the corporate jet were up to date with insurance and registrations, ensuring title work was complete on vehicles purchased and sold, as well as assisting the senior executive if they needed additional administrative support or their admin was out. Once the fleet was sold and we began leasing our vehicles instead, I began supporting the lobbyist as well as the fleet director. I would arrange dinners with investors and congressmen, flights to D.C., hotel accommodations. Form there I moved into shareholder relations where I assisted with shareholder meetings, large investments, and stock transactions.

This position required processing of court ordered child support payments, ensuring custody cases were properly filed, tracking down information for attorney general cases, and keeping track of clients addresses.