Executive Assistant - Chief of Staff

United States Space Foundation•Colorado Springs, CO

7d•$80,000 - $85,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Executive Assistant for the Chief of Staff (EACOS) provides administrative and project management support to the Chief of Staff (COS) and the COS team. This individual takes initiative and works independently on a variety of special projects as directed by the COS. The EACOS works in close partnership with the Chief Executive Assistant (CEA) and supports day-to-day Space Foundation operations and the execution of key business priorities. They are an influencer throughout our organization, working closely with the larger team to improve strategic and organizational operations and ensure alignment and accountability around Space Foundation goals and critical business priorities. The EACOS also acts as a mentor to the broader administrative professional staff and is a partner for training and developing those individuals.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in business, management, communication or related field, and a minimum of 5 years progressively responsible work experience, or a comparable blend of education and experience, is required.
Previous experience supporting senior executives in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
Strong knowledge and experience utilizing the Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook are required.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience supervising and leading administrative professional staff preferred.
Project Management experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Collaborates with Space Foundation senior leaders to manage the COS’ calendar, appointments, and external appearances, to include prioritizing schedules based on knowledge of the Foundation’s business priorities.
Works closely with the COS to prepare for, plan, coordinate, track taskings, and assemble the agenda and other meeting materials and presentations as may be required for Foundation meetings, with specific emphasis on weekly senior leadership meetings.
Coordinates preparations, logistics and agenda, maintains notes and records, and manages semi-annual strategic planning meetings.
Manages the Space Foundation strategic calendar.
Maintains internal SOP and policy tracker system, ensuring timely reviews, updates, and proper posting for use by SF staff.
Coordinates travel plans, travel preparation and itineraries for the COS.
In collaboration with CEA and COS, develops and manages the program or department budget, ensuring adherence to budgetary standards, proactively tracking expenditures, and communicating deviations to Finance in a timely and transparent manner.
Screens incoming calls and correspondence, responds independently when possible, and ensures that unsolicited calls, queries and correspondence are directed to the cognizant manager when appropriate.
Designs and composes correspondence, confidential correspondence, memoranda, charts, tables and graphs.
Serves as the back up to the CEA in providing support to the CEO and the Board, as needed.
Creates and maintains databases and spreadsheet files appropriate to the support of the COS and the senior leadership team.
Create, maintain, edit, update and prepare a variety of presentations and/or speeches.
Creates and maintains Space Foundation senior leadership records as required.
Acts as a mentor for Space Foundation administrative team members by supporting development and training in collaboration with the CEA.
Utilizes the Space Foundation event planning department to coordinate arrangements for food, beverages, meeting space and all logistics related to meetings and events that may be required by the COS, CEO, and other members of the management team.
Performs other duties and special projects as may be assigned.
5-10% travel is required.