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Executive Assistant
Location
Worldwide
Posted
1 day ago
Salary
$15 - $25 / hour
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Executive Assistant
Fast Company
• Leading team operations including internal communications, email distribution lists, technology, upgrades, new hire coordination, time keeping assistance, etc. • Coordinating with other staff members and departments to facilitate projects and initiatives. • Conducting research, preparing presentations (PowerPoint, Keynote, Documents, Excel) and reports, and tracking a variety of details • Managing calendars and coordinating meetings • Planning and organizing travel arrangements (domestic and international), including researching and scheduling the best options, and dealing with necessary changes/adjustments to the itinerary • Renewing memberships, visas, credit cards, etc. • And many more ad hoc projects!
Job Requirements
- Experience supporting senior executives within a business environment
- Strong administration/office skills including business etiquette, answering phones, and fielding requests and the ability to act as a “gate keeper”, as well as the ability to chase people down to deadlines
- Solid experience with presentation programs such as PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides and with calendar management
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Strong multi-tasking skills, balancing competing priorities and seeing tasks through to completion, often under tight deadlines
- A detail-oriented, collaborative mindset
- A proven ability to take initiative and think and plan ahead
- An exceptional eye for detail and organization, with extreme focus on mistakes and poor grammar
- Discretion, good judgment, and a high degree of confidentiality
- Willingness to pitch in wherever necessary with a “no task too big or small” mindset
- Exceptional intuitive thinking, critical reasoning, and problem-solving skills
- A high sense of urgency and being highly results oriented, not stopping until the outcome is achieved
- Ability to make logical, reasonable decisions when explicit guidance is not given.
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