This page lists the common duties for the assistant resource coordinator. Most of them could be performed remotely.
The job duties should take roughly 10-15 hours a week. Such an estimate is based on my previous assistant resource coordinator’s timesheets. If you find that you are unable to give adequate time to some of the job tasks, I will consider extending your hours and/or hiring another assistant resource coordinator.
Hiring Support Staff
Support staff are my employees who assist me with the physical things that I am unable to do completely on my own, ranging from personal care to turning my eye gaze communication system on and off. I hire people, provide them with comprehensive training, make their work schedule, help them improve on their weak areas, and fire those people who don’t do their job properly.
You will be hired to help me do the following:
- Proofread and post my ads to online advertising websites, like Indeed.
- Conduct phone interviews with the applications and email me their responses.
- Schedule face to face or Zoom interviews with select applicants. I will conduct the interviews.
- Check references for the applicants who I feel would be a good fit.
- Offer the job to whom I want to hire and explain the hiring process to them.
- Facilitate the hiring process, however it looks for a given person.
- Go over the employee handbook with a new support staff.
Obtaining Supplies
Supplies include natural supplements, prescriptions, creams, household items, house repairs, specialized equipment, and the like. I typically know what I need and how to get it. With my limited mobility and being incredibly short, I sometimes ask someone to take inventory of certain things, but I make the decision whether to get something.
I may ask for your help with the following:
- Make phone calls.
- Do online research.
- Advocate on my behalf when I ask you to.
- Help schedule appointments, repairs, Zoom meetings, and deliveries.
- Compile information for me, so I can compare my options.
- Relay certain information to the people of my choosing.
Maintaining Stability
If we stop and think about it, stability is a subjective quality. In other words, different people have different definitions of stability for themselves and others. For example, some people believe that stability for me would be to have fewer staff who worked full-time instead of having more part-time people. However, I see a number of problems with having fewer people working full-time, such as not having enough staff to cover when one of them is sick, having increased burnout, or having to pay more overtime than state funding allows. As you can well imagine, these extra staffing challenges do not create stability for me – just the opposite.
I define stability as the ability to fulfill my own daily agenda without needing to worry about staffing and whether I will be safe with a given staff, until I create the monthly staffing schedule. I always have something to do, especially when writing a series of novels. Essentially, stability to me means to live my life without many interruptions due to staff mishaps and drama.
With this in mind, you can help me maintain stability as I define it by helping me with the following:
- Encourage staff to adhere to their work schedule , which is created largely around the availability that they have given me.
- Find suitable coverage when staff cannot come to work.
- Remind a given staff the employee guidelines if they have been having difficulty following them.
- Keep up with the recruiting process in a timely manner, as more staffing options can add to my stability.
- Let me choose who to hire without input from you, because the wrong person for the job often interrupts my stability.
- Recruit reliable and respectful volunteers to give me extra help with filling in until one of her support staff can come. Volunteers might also fundraise, proofread what she has written, and sleep at her house in case of an emergency.
- Help schedule and manage these volunteers if I ask.
- In general, do your best to complete your job duties within one or two days after I have asked you.