What To Expect

This page list the common duties for the assistant resource coordinator. Most of them could be performed remotely.


We admit that the list of duties may seem like a lot to do within 10-15 hours per week. Such an estimate is based on Dr. Rytter's previous assistant resource coordinator's timesheets. If you find that you are unable to give adequate time to some of the job tasks, Dr. Rytter will consider extending your hours and/or hiring another assistant resource coordinator.

Support Staff

Support staff are Dr. Rytter’s employees who assist her with the physical things that she is unable to do completely on her own, ranging from personal care to turning her eye gaze communication system on and off. Dr. Rytter hires, provides them with comprehensive training, makes their work schedule, helps them improve on their weak areas, and fires those people who don’t do their job properly.


You will be hired to help Dr. Rytter do the following:

  • Proofread and post Dr. Rytter's ads to online advertising websites, like Indeed.

  • Conduct phone interviews with the applications and email Dr. Rytter their responses.

  • Schedule face to face or Zoom interviews with select applicants. Dr. Rytter will conduct the interviews.

  • Check references for the applicants who Dr. Rytter feels would be a good fit.

  • Offer the job to whom Dr. Rytter wants 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.

Supplies

Supplies include natural supplements, prescriptions, creams, household items, house repairs, specialized equipment, and the like. Dr. Rytter typically knows what she needs and how to get it. With her limited mobility and being incredibly short, she sometimes asks someone to take inventory of certain things, but she makes the decision whether to get something.


Dr. Rytter may ask for your help with the following:

  • Make phone calls.

  • Do online research.

  • Advocate on Dr. Rytter’s behalf when she asks you to.

  • Help schedule appointments, repair people, Zoom meetings, and deliveries.

  • Compile information for Dr. Rytter, so she can compare her options.

  • Relay certain information to the people of Dr. Rytter’s choosing.


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 Dr. Rytter would be to have fewer staff who worked full-time instead of having more part-time people. However, Dr. Rytter sees 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 more overtime than her state funding allows. As you can well imagine, these extra staffing challenges do not create stability for her – just the opposite.


Dr. Rytter defines stability as the ability to fulfill her own daily agenda without needing to worry about staffing and whether she will be safe with a given staff, until she creates the monthly staffing schedule. She always has something to do, especially when writing a series of novels. Essentially, stability to her means to live her life without many interruptions due to staff mishaps and drama.


With this in mind, you can help Dr. Rytter maintain stability as she defines it by helping her with the following:

  • Encourage staff to adhere to their work schedule , which is created largely around the availability that they have given Dr. Rytter.

  • Find suitable coverage when a 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 Dr. Rytter's stability.

  • Let Dr. Rytter choose who to hire without input from you, because the wrong person for the job often interrupts Dr. Rytter's stability.

  • Recruit reliable and respectful volunteers to give Dr. Rytter 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 Dr. Rytter asks.

  • In general, do your best to complete your job duties within one or two days after Dr. Rytter has asked you.