Senior Executive Assistant to the Chairperson

Role summary

Responsible for providing full administrative support to the Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the organization. Responsibilities may include the following duties, amongst others: greeting, screening and entertaining visitors, writing of routine correspondence to a variety of audiences via e-mail, traditional mail, or other formats, screening telephone calls from a variety of callers including, executives, shareholders, Board Members, customers, media, and other sources, management of the Chairperson’s schedule for both the organization’s activities and outside charitable or other activities of the incumbent, making all travel arrangements, coordinating and scheduling meetings, organizing hospitality or other events sponsored by the Chairperson, managing, tracking and coordinating of expenses, administering any budget for the Office of the Chairperson, documenting meetings, and general administrative follow-up on behalf of the Chairperson. Routinely exposed to highly confidential information of a material nature (acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, takeover bids, executive changes, financial condition, and similar information) and is required to maintain absolute discretion in these matters. Depending on the work volume and scope of work, may have an assistant and in such cases provides work direction, guidance and review as required to that position. May periodically engage and supervise temporary staff. May require periodic travel outside the headquarters work location. Requires executive level administrative support experience in a large complex organization.

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