Elk Rock Yoga Project Assistant

Elk Rock Owner Fawn Williams is hiring for a part-time, ongoing, project assistant to support and manage her yoga studio and retail establishment.

Start date: October 1, 2025. Accepting applications immediately through September 30.

About the position

• Time commitment: 10 hours a week guaranteed, with potential for more hours some weeks if desired.

• Compensation: $22–$25 an hour depending on experience.

Work schedule

Your schedule is largely yours to design as long as mutually agreed on deadlines are met. The exceptions are 30-minute meetings with Fawn every 1–2 weeks and any time-sensitive work related to social media management (though you are invited to use a scheduling tool). You should also be available for occasional checkins by phone and text.

Can I work remotely?

Elk Rock Yoga and Elk Rock Outpost are both based in Portland, Oregon; partially remote work is fine, as long as you are able to schedule occasional meetings at mutually agreed-on times between the hours of 10 a.m.–4 p.m., ideally in person.

Tasks (as needed)

• Every other week 30-minute meeting with Fawn (to be mutually scheduled on a weekday, at 12 p.m.)

• Familiarize yourself with ongoing processes from previous assistant’s description

• Social media management

• Research and write content for social media posts

• Find aligned media to amplify our message/PR outreach under Fawn’s guidance

• Create and schedule social media posts across multiple platforms (FB, Instagram, possibly TikTok)

• Research hashtags for social posts and other best practices regularly

• Marketing management

• Network with yoga teachers, retailers, small business owners, neighborhood associations, non-profits, influencers, and reaching out via social media and email to make connections and promote Fawn’s work

• Oversee marketing schedule for trainings, retreats, and workshops

• Help organize, write, copy edit, and link-check email newsletters

• Simple video and image editing (create simple graphics, trim, resize, polish, create video clips, etc.)

• Flyer design

• Create promotions for events and launches, report back on success of promotions so that we can continually adapt strategy

• Customer and studio support

• Communicate with customers via email/text

• Manage instructor payroll

• Conduct regular reporting through Mindbody to manage contacts for marketing as well as monitor the health of the hybrid (in-person and virtual) studio schedule

• Manage the studio’s work trade participants who provide hours worked in exchange for yoga classes (work trade tasks often include cleaning, laundry, plant care, and class check-ins)

• Schedule and organize tasks to plan ahead, both for yourself and Fawn

Required core competencies for position

• Complete tasks on time and well

• Proactively communicate with Fawn when there is a barrier to your successful completion of tasks so Fawn can support you

• Problem solving ability; able to make small decisions and not need hand-holding to complete tasks well 

• Great communicator with people you don’t know as well as those you do

• Excellent writing skills

• Detail-oriented and patient

• Confident, creative problem-solving

• Organized scheduler and ability to keep to that schedule

• Able to do all work by agreed-upon deadline 

• Have experience posting regularly on social media and ability to post (Facebook/Instagram/TikTok)

• Willingness and ability to follow evolving trends for each social media platform to keep our strategy current 

• Ability to learn and use new technology

• Direct and honest communication 

• Open to both giving and receiving feedback to/from Fawn to improve our work together and our communication (i.e. must be able to accept feedback from Fawn without defensiveness, and confident to share feedback with Fawn)

• Able to create systems and schedules for yourself that supports the work being done (in collaboration with Fawn and also taking the initiative to do so on your own)

Current systems useD

• Mindbody Online, Mindbody Business

• Squarespace (multiple websites and mailing list)

• Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Sheets, Gmail, Google Calendar

• Canva

• Square

• Shopify

• Vimeo

• Meta: Facebook, Instagram

• TikTok (sometimes)

• Zoom

Future opportunities

This position has the potential to grow as Fawn’s business grows.

Not required, but ideaL

• You are interested in graphic design: Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign (because this is what Fawn uses); experience in Canva is OK, too.

• You have education experience and would enjoy assisting with class preparation or syllabus/curriculum creation.

• You’re skilled in branding and marketing and are interested in taking on larger decision-making in that area.

• You have an awesome understanding of ecommerce and small business marketing.

• You are interested in the connection between art, ritual, and commerce/sustenance.

This position would not be a good fit for you if

• You are stronger in coming up with ideas, creating and relating than you are in execution and mastering the details (this is an admin position).

• You have ongoing life circumstances that make you unable to complete tasks on time.

• You struggle with learning new technology and systems.

• Rather than being proactive in communicating, you hide out when struggling with a task or if you are unable to complete a deadline.

Position details

• This is not an employee position, it is an hourly contract position (no benefits). You will be issued a 1099 at the end of the year and will be responsible for your own reporting/taxes. 

• Work will begin with a one month test period to make sure we are a good match, at which point we will sign a contract for ongoing hourly support if we mutually agree.

• If we sign an ongoing contract after the test period, either you or Fawn can give two weeks’ notice to cancel, although one month’s notice is preferred in both directions.

Note: This is an ongoing position and the ideal candidate will be interested in this position for the long term. 

How to apply

Please send an email to fawn@elkrockyoga.com with “Application” in the subject line. Tell me about your strengths and interests in the position, any questions, any other relevant information, and attach a resume. If we advance to the next round I will request phone calls with two references.