Since my current assistant — the very excellent Zoë Sutherland — has taken up residence on the other side of the world, we’ve tried to keep her work as my assistant going, but it’s just too complicated. So, we’re parting ways and I’m on the look-out for a new assistant. Might it be you?
I’m looking for someone (probably local to Dartmoor/south Devon, or at least able to travel here on a semi-regular basis) to help with things like:
listing events on my website
helping arrange in-person events and the occasional podcast
dealing with workshop queries
doing follow-up admin after workshops
sending recordings of mentoring meetings
answering some of the email queries I get
helping me stay on track with projects through a weekly meetingperhaps assisting me with putting together some poetry-teaching videos
Nothing too arduous and nothing too specialised. I need someone with good communication skills and an ease with the back-end of websites. A knack for good organising is essential. And a patience for my sometimes-chaotic ways of working (which might not be that chaotic, in truth, but seem like it at the moment.) Graphics skills for putting together images for events like the Feral Angels’ Poetry Café would be needed (I use GIMP and Scribus, but those aren’t essential) and if you’re able to help sometimes with larger online events and maybe in-person ones too, that’d be a good thing, for sure. Mostly, I need someone to help me keep on top of messages and online events. The rest may be negotiable. My basic situation is that I’ve got too much to do and not enough hours or ergs of energy to get it all done, having reached the limits (a long time ago) of what one person can do. There’s also change ahead as my work with Feral Angels Press and Clarion evolve and the teams involved expand, which should reduce my workload and allow me to concentrate more on writing, editing and teaching.
In all honesty, I don’t know how much time a week this would take — certainly not more than one day a week at this stage. I pay fairly — there’s holidays and sick pay —and we’d have clear agreements about responsibilities and powers.
So, if you think you might just be my new assistant, click the button below to send a message with some information about you, and a CV or the like, and why you’d like the role and why you think you’d be great at it, and I’ll set up some calls over the next few weeks. Or just email me the same at assistant@tomhirons.com with [ASSISTANT JOB] in the subject line.
Hopefully, it’ll work out joyously for both of us. Go on. Don’t be shy. (And please don’t move to New Zealand? Please?!?)
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