Administrative Assistant II

Job Description

Job Description

Administrative Assistant II

Job Summary

Provide high-level administrative support to the CEO. Responsibility may include preparing statistical reports, handling information requests, as well as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings. May also train and supervise lower-level clerical staff.

Education and Experience

High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED)

Bachelor's Degree preferred.

Primary Job Duties

• Manage and maintain executives' schedules.
• Prepare invoices, reports, memos, letters, financial statements, and other documents, using word processing, spreadsheet, database, or presentation software.
• Read and analyze incoming memos, submissions, and reports to determine their significance and plan their distribution.
• Open, sort, and distribute incoming correspondence, including faxes and email.
• File and retrieve corporate documents, records, and reports.
• Greet visitors and determine whether they should be given access to specific individuals.
• Prepare responses to correspondence containing routine inquiries.
• Make travel arrangements for executives.
• Conduct research, compile data, and prepare papers for consideration and presentation by executives, committees, and boards of directors.
• Attend meetings to record minutes.
• Answer phone calls and direct calls to appropriate parties or take messages.
• Perform general office duties, such as ordering supplies, maintaining records management database systems, and performing bookkeeping duties.
• Prepare agendas and make arrangements, such as coordinating catering for luncheons, for committee, board, and other meetings.
• Coordinate and direct office services, such as records, departmental finances, budget preparation, personnel issues, and housekeeping, to aid executives.