Careers at EO

Administrative Assistant (HQ in Alexandria, VA)

The primary function of the position of the Administrative Assistant includes screening calls; managing calendars; making travel, meeting and event arrangements; preparing reports and financial data; and member support


Essential Duties and Responsibilities: 

  • - Responsible for managing the CEO's schedule
  • - Manage travel logistics for CEO
  • - Provide administrative support to the executive team.
  • - Provide administrative support for meetings, including minutes, meetings presentations and set up.
  • - Assist with managing Executive Team reports and documents
  • - Other duties as necessary

Qualification Requirements:​

Required:

  • > Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  • > 3-5 years' experience in managing workloads for executive level staff
  • > Strong computer and Internet research skills
  • > Project and event coordination
  • > Strong attention to details, Flexible schedule

Preferred:

  • - Experience with global association work
  • - Sensitivity to confidential materials


​Language Skills:  Ability to read, write and comprehend instructions, correspondence and memos.  Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing members, staff, managers, clients, and the public.  Ability to understand oral instructions and to ask for clarification when necessary.

Mathematical Skills:  Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide all units of measure using whole numbers and calculate figures and amounts such as fractions, decimals, percentages, proportions and ratios to practical situations.

Reasoning Ability:  Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written and/or oral form.

Physical Demands:  The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the Essential Duties of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the Essential Duties.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, walk, talk, and hear.  The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle and feel objects, tools, and controls.  The employee is occasionally required to stand, reach with hands and arms, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.  Required to occasionally lift and/or move up to  lbs.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision and abilities to adjust focus to read and type documents on a computer screen.

Additional hours may be required during periods of heavy workload.  Flexibility is required in the daily work schedule to accommodate tasks

Work Environment:  The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing the Essential Duties of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the Essential Duties. 

The employee is normally required to work in a high-rise building equipped with elevators in an environment where the noise level is usually moderate. 

May be assigned to an internal work space without windows to the outside, located in close proximity to other office personnel. 

Professional workplace where business and business casual attire is required.

Ability to work in a fast pace and high pressure environment.

Nothing contained in this job description, or conveyed during any interview which may be granted or during any period of employment (if hired) with Entrepreneurs’ Organization, is intended to create an employment contract with any employee or prospective employee of the Firm for any specified period of time.  Work rules and benefits in effect are subject to change from time to time, according to the needs of the organization.  Any and all employment with Entrepreneurs’ Organization is “at will,” that is, for no definite or determinable period and subject to termination at any time, with or without cause and with or without prior notice, at the option of either the employee or the organization

Entrepreneurs' Organization is an equal opportunity employer.

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