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Job Title : Executive Assistant

Location : Onsite

Position type : FLSA :

Full time

Exempt

Department : Finance ID :

Global Programs Office - 4201

2501-2025-N1

Profoundly Improve People’s lives by Revolutionizing the Delivery of RNA Therapeutics

At Avidity Biosciences, we are passionate about the impact of every employee in realizing our vision of improving people’s lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics. Avidity is revolutionizing the field of RNA with its proprietary AOCs, which are designed to combine the specificity of monoclonal antibodies with the precision of oligonucleotide therapies to address targets and diseases previously unreachable with existing RNA therapies. If you are a committed, solution-oriented thinker, join us in making a difference and become part of our growing culture that is integrated, collaborative, agile and focused on the needs of patients.

Avidity Biosciences, Inc.'s mission is to profoundly improve people's lives by delivering a new class of RNA therapeutics - Antibody Oligonucleotide Conjugates (AOCs™). Utilizing its proprietary AOC platform, Avidity demonstrated the first-ever successful targeted delivery of RNA into muscle and is leading the field with clinical development programs for three rare muscle diseases : myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1), Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Avidity is broadening the reach of AOCs with its advancing and expanding pipeline, including programs in cardiology and immunology through internal discovery efforts and key partnerships. Avidity is headquartered in San Diego, CA. For more information about our AOC platform, clinical development pipeline, and people, please visit www.aviditybiosciences.com and engage with us on LinkedIn and X .

The Opportunity

The Executive Assistant will be a key member of the administrative support team, and will support the Chief Program Officer. This role is for a seasoned and experienced C-Suite Executive Assistant with high EQ and the ability to set priorities, collaborate with others, and professionally interface with a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders in a dynamic and growing global biotech company.   Experience in supporting a C-Suite executive, and the Board of Directors as necessary, is strongly preferred.

What You Will Contribute

• Possess exceptional professionalism, discretion and judgment, serving as a trusted liaison for the Avidity executives.
• Manage, prioritize and direct incoming business matters in a timely and efficient manner.
• Coordinate daily schedules, meeting coordination, agendas, and presentations.
• Provide support in meeting activities such as organizing, planning meetings (e.g., functional, project, and team meetings) and providing meeting minutes.
• Independently manage complex calendar & travel schedules (domestic and international).
• Collaborate with other Executive Assistants and their executives in supporting the Board of Directors and Board Committees, e.g. the Human Capital Management Committee and the Nominations and Corporate Governance Committee.
• Coordinate team schedules, travel arrangements, meeting logistics, onsite lunches, and group events as required.
• Prepare and produce various routine and ad-hoc reports of a standard to complex nature as assigned, utilizing independent judgment, analysis, and innovation regarding format layout. Ensure reports are distributed to all required individuals.
• Facilitate governance, group, and departmental meetings (attendance, agenda, meeting materials, minutes) in an evolving biotech environment.
• Create documents and presentations as required and complete and manage projects as assigned.
• On an ad hoc basis, provide lunch coverage and back-up support to the Front Office Coordinator.
• Work collaboratively with other Executive and Administrative Assistants to drive efficiency, share best practices and enhance administrative operations.

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