Employment Opportunities

AK Preparedness is looking for an experienced, senior-level administrative assistant to support a wide range of administrative functions, including contract administration, insurance, AR/AP, new-hire onboarding, and assisting senior leadership. This is a flexible 32 to 40-hour per week position that requires working part or full time from our office in Seattle (North Queen Anne).

Responsibilities include:

• Contract administration
• Insurance program administration
• New client setup
• Onboarding new employees and contractors
• Scheduling, project management, and proposal assistance
• Marketing support
• Contact database maintenance
• Fixed asset tracking
• Employee expense reports
• Assistance with payroll, AR, AP
• Filing
• Federal contracting compliance and reporting

This role touches every corner of AK’s operations and its employees throughout the US and Canada, but will primarily support the company’s leadership in Seattle.

Successful candidates will bring several years of senior-level administrative experience, an ability to prioritize and manage many tasks and initiatives simultaneously, strong attention to detail, superb written and verbal communication skills, facility with the Microsoft Office suite, and the ability to learn quickly.

AK offers a competitive compensation package including healthcare subsidies and a retirement account matching program.

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs@akpreparedness.com.

Part-Time Video Producer

AK is looking for an experienced video producer to oversee every aspect of its video production efforts.  AK creates life-safety training videos ranging from 2-minute in-studio productions to 20-minute custom videos filmed on-site at client locations throughout the US.

Responsibilities include:

• Project management of all video development
• Hire and oversee crews and contractors
• Quality control for all final programs
• Maintain AK’s internal library of completed videos
• Coordinate deliverables with other AK project managers

This is a part-time, hourly position we anticipate will average 12 to 15 hours per week and range from zero to 40 hours in any given week. The work can be scheduled around other projects and shoots, but in general, candidates must be available to communicate daily during normal business hours.  The role can be performed remotely (within North America) or at our Chicago or Seattle offices.

Successful candidates will bring several years of video production experience spanning multiple disciplines (production, editing, scriptwriting, etc.), an ability to prioritize and manage many tasks and initiatives simultaneously, strong attention to detail, superb communication skills, facility with the Microsoft Office suite, and the ability to learn quickly.

Please send resume and cover letter to jobs@akpreparedness.com.

AK Preparedness, a national leader in emergency planning, training, and technology, is looking for current or retired firefighters in the Puget Sound area to conduct live and live-but-remote life safety training for building staff, floor warden teams, and occupants. Must be a dynamic, engaging speaker/trainer willing to learn our established curricula.

This is a part-time position, ranging from one to ten trainings per month. The schedule is flexible.  Occasional travel to Portland, California, or Denver is possible. 

Experience with Microsoft Office and a high comfort level with basic computer operations required (exchanging files via Dropbox, adjusting PowerPoint files, Zoom/Teams meetings, etc). 

Interested candidates, please send resume and cover letter to jobs@akpreparedness.com.