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About You:You are a high achiever looking to thrive in a fast-paced environment. You take pride in your own work but are comfortable collaborating with a team of highly motivated individuals. You can communicate clearly and concisely with teammates and clients, and you enjoy strong company culture and camaraderie. You can navigate multiple corporate functions, including global lines of service and corporate centers of excellence. You possess strong interpersonal skills and are willing to take on diverse tasks to achieve the team’s common goal. You value personal and professional growth and are ready to take the next step in advancing your career.If this sounds like you, well, then you will love the culture at Avison Young!About Us:Avison Young is a global commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm, offering transaction, management, financial and consulting services. We’ve designed our corporate structure to best serve our clients by enhancing collaboration across our organization.Real estate can have an enormous positive impact on people’s lives – and we’re in the business of making spaces and places work better for people. Our purpose is to create real economic, social and environmental value as a global real estate advisor, powered by people.We care about each other and we have each other’s backs. This makes Avison Young a great place to be a client, and a great place to work. We support the whole person and their complete wellness – economic, mental and physical – because what’s best for our business comes from our people bringing their whole selves to work.
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Overview
The Global Operations Coordinator serves as a trusted partner to the COO, providing high-level executive support, project coordination, and administrative support.
This role is ideal for an experienced Executive Assistant, Senior Administrative Professional, or Project Coordinator who thrives in a fast-paced environment, enjoys bringing structure to complexity, and can independently manage competing priorities.
The successful candidate will be highly organized, proactive, detail-oriented, and confident working with senior leaders across multiple regions, while ensuring confidentiality to sensitive project coordination and tasks. They will act as a central point of coordination, helping ensure strategic initiatives, meetings, communications, and key deliverables move forward efficiently.
The base salary is aligned with market data and is estimated to range from $70,000-$80,000 with the ability to achieve additional compensation through a bonus. Within this range, individual pay is determined by work location and other factors, including relevant education/training, experience, and internal equity. This posting is for an existing vacancy within our organization.
Responsibilities
Executive & Leadership Support
- Act as a trusted partner to the COO, helping manage priorities, schedules, communications, and follow-up actions.
- Coordinate executive meetings, leadership sessions, and strategic planning activities.
- Prepare agendas, briefing materials, presentations, reports, and executive communications.
- Track action items and ensure timely completion of commitments across the leadership team.
- Administrative duties as assigned by COO.
- Handle confidential and sensitive information with professionalism and discretion.
Project & Program Coordination
- Coordinate strategic initiatives and special projects across global Operations and Centres of Excellence.
- Track project milestones, deliverables, timelines, and stakeholder updates.
- Facilitate communication and alignment between regional and functional teams.
- Identify risks, bottlenecks, or missed deadlines and proactively escalate where appropriate.
- Support planning and execution of leadership offsites, workshops, and organizational initiatives.
Operational Coordination
- Maintain visibility into key departmental activities, priorities, and ongoing initiatives.
- Partner with Finance, HR, Security, and business stakeholders to support operational effectiveness.
- Assist with departmental planning, documentation, and process improvements.
- Organize and maintain important documentation, presentations, and leadership materials.
Communications & Reporting
- Develop executive dashboards, status updates, and leadership reports.
- Draft communications, announcements, and presentations for internal audiences.
- Support preparation of materials for executive meetings, board presentations, and leadership reviews.
- Ensure information is communicated clearly and consistently across global teams.
Special Projects
- Lead or support ad hoc initiatives on behalf of the COO.
- Conduct research, analysis, and information gathering to support decision-making.
- Drive process improvements and administrative efficiencies across the organization.
Take ownership of projects from planning through execution with minimal supervision.
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience supporting senior executives, leadership teams, or complex business operations.
- Post-secondary education in Business or related field. (University graduate preferred)
- Experience as an Executive Assistant, Senior Executive Coordinator, Project Coordinator, Operations Coordinator, or similar role.
- Exceptional organizational and time-management skills.
- Experience coordinating projects, programs, or strategic initiatives.
- Experience working within a global or matrixed organization.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook).
- Ability to manage multiple priorities independently in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong attention to detail and follow-through.
- Comfortable interacting with executive and C-suite stakeholders.
- Familiarity with project management tools and collaboration platforms.
Workplace Type
On-Site
Our Equal Opportunity Commitment
Our Equal Opportunity Commitment
Avison Young practices as an equal opportunity employer in all services locations around the world. We are committed to building and maintaining a workforce diverse in experience, skills and knowledge with uniformity in service excellence, commitment and integrity.
The firm maintains a strict policy to ensure employment opportunities are equal and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, protected veteran or military service status, or any other elements protected by law.
Avison Young welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates during the recruitment process. For those requiring assistance, information relating to the need for accommodation and accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.
Avison Young is committed to employing the best talent with the most fair and equitable recruitment practices. Apply with us TODAY!
