Executive Assistant
Description
Responsibilities
Executive Support (CIO-Focused)
- Manage the CIO’s calendar, meetings, travel, and related logistics across Outlook and Teams
- Prepare meeting materials and “prep packets,” ensuring the CIO is equipped with context, goals, and decision points
- Maintain a real-time CIO action register and drive follow-up closure daily
- Draft travel and meeting agendas and coordinate communications, correspondence, and sensitive routing with strict confidentiality
IT&D Administrative Operations
- Serve as the central routing point for IT&D administrative tasks, ensuring work moves to the correct leaders and stays on track
- Provide administrative support to multiple IT&D leaders as needed
- Maintain organized digital filing systems (SharePoint/OneDrive) with disciplined version control
- Manage IT&D’s internal process calendar (people processes, operational deadlines) and publish clear communications on what is due, by when, and by whom
- Maintain a concise library of IT&D admin resources (templates, job descriptions, vendor artifacts, process notes)
- Publish IT&D-wide communications regarding processes and deadlines including what is due and when, where it lives, and who owns next step
Procurement & Vendor Administration
- Administer purchase order workflows end-to-end, including approvals, submission, routing, and payment documentation
- Partner with Accounts Payable on invoice processing, PO matching, and approval tracking
- Maintain vendor agreements, renewal awareness, and key metadata; support vendor onboarding tasks (W-9s, contacts, billing setup)
- Manage a vendor tracker with ownership, coding, renewals, and status updates
- Support security-related procurement where the CIO is an approver, ensuring proper routing and documentation
- Assist with expense reconciliation (coding clarifications, approval back-up) and supporting documentation when assigned
Staffing & HR Coordination
- Coordinate proactively with HR to align hiring needs, staffing plans, and onboarding timelines to ensure seamless support for executive priorities and manage interview logistics accordingly
Communications, Documentation & Meeting Support
- Draft internal communications, memos, and departmental reports (status updates, procurement summaries, meeting recaps) as requested
- Capture decisions, action items, owners, and deadlines for CIO and IT&D meetings; uphold meeting hygiene (agendas, clarity of decisions, action tracking)
- Ensure sensitive documents are handled and stored appropriately with disciplined access control
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required
- Proven experience supporting senior executives in a high‑trust, fast‑paced environment
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion and professionalism
- Demonstrated ability to manage repeatable workflows such as approvals, deadlines, hiring logistics, and procurement processes with consistent, high‑quality documentation
- Comfortable engaging with internal stakeholders and external vendors, including confident follow‑up and escalation when needed
- Proficiency with Microsoft 365: Outlook, Teams, OneDrive/SharePoint, Word, Excel, PowerPoint
- Scheduling and meeting operations in Teams (links, dial-in details, recordings when requested, attendee logistics)
- Finance/procurement workflow tooling used by the company (PO creation, approval routing, invoice support)
- Hiring workflow tooling used by the company (job posting coordination, candidate scheduling and routing)
Benefits
- Comprehensive compensation and healthcare packages, including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance products
- 401(k) plan with employer match
- Competitive paid time off: vacation, personal time, holidays, and winter break
- Company sponsored volunteer & community outreach opportunities
- Organizational growth potential through our company sponsored online learning platform