Cayuse Holdings

Executive Assistant

Cayuse Holdings

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Washington • District of Columbia • Washington • United States

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Salary

💰 $25 - $35 per hour

About the role

  • The Executive Assistant serves as the trusted right hand to senior executives
  • Responsible for managing daily operations, communications, and administrative functions
  • Maintain the Senior Leadership’s calendar to ensure priority needs are considered and met
  • Review, analyze, and screen incoming correspondence, routing issues of overriding and central importance
  • Obtain complete background information from responsible officers on matters formally submitted to the Senior Leadership for decision
  • Ensure materials are clear, concise, coherent, and complete
  • Request necessary amplification and revisions of material prior to transmittal
  • Liaison with senior officials both within and outside the Department
  • Make independent decisions on selected matters
  • Ensure formal decisions, recommendations and suggestions made by the Senior Leadership are passed to the proper offices
  • Follow-up to ensure prompt action
  • Monitor ongoing substantive matters as instructed by the Senior Leadership
  • Oversee the preparation of materials for use by the Senior Leadership at high levels and sensitive meetings
  • Prepare confidential background material and reports for the Senior Leadership’s use in preparing for meetings
  • Escort officials to meetings with the Senior Leadership
  • Assist with the coordination of all travel arrangements necessary for the Senior Leadership’s travel and that of her staff

Requirements

  • Secret Clearance is required
  • Must be able to pass a background check
  • May require additional background checks as required by projects and/or clients at any time during employment
  • Excellent interpersonal and oral communication skills
  • Excellent customer service skills
  • Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, including follow-up on pending tasks
  • Proficient in MS Office, Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Excel
  • Timely, accurate, complete and up-to-date work products
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Excellent time management skills
  • Ability to operate significantly under own initiative and as part of a team, including drafting proposals and recommending effective approaches to tasks with minimal guidance
  • Ability to work with a wide variety of actors in the E Family and other Bureaus and offices, as well as with interagency and external partners.
Benefits
  • Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
  • Wellness Program
  • Flexible Spending Accounts (Healthcare, Dependent Care, Commuter)
  • Short-Term and Long-Term Disability options
  • Basic Life and AD&D Insurance (Company Provided)
  • Voluntary Life and AD&D options
  • 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan with matching after one year
  • Paid Time Off
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