Northrop Grumman is seeking an Executive Assistant to support Corporate Legislative Affairs. This position will report directly to the Vice President of Advanced Weapons and Missile Defense Agency Federal Affairs and Operations, while also providing support to other senior executive team members as needed.
As a valued member of the team, the Executive Assistant is the center of day-to-day office operations and will be welcomed into a team environment where input is invited, growth is encouraged, and mutual support is the standard. Our community is composed of incredible people with varied backgrounds who find professional fulfillment in understanding and solving challenges that make our world a safer place.
This position will require onsite work at our Washington, DC location with the ability to travel to Headquarters in Falls Church, VA.
The Executive Assistant communicates with enterprise-wide partners, executives, administrative and line management employees. This position requires the individual to perform advanced administrative duties with exposure to sensitive information necessitating tact, diplomacy, discretion, and judgment. Strong project management skills, emotional intelligence, and integrity are essential for this position. In addition, the candidate must be comfortable working in a high energy, collaborative, fast paced, professional environment.
The ideal candidate will be team-oriented, possess the ability to work with other professionals collaboratively, possess agility and the desire to adapt to constantly changing demands and new tools/technologies, demonstrate a capability to take on new and unfamiliar tasks and have a tremendous interest in playing a significant role as a member of the leadership team. Advanced proficiency at multi-tasking and managing priorities for senior leadership team members is required.
This position is pivotal to the success of the organization and the successful candidate will demonstrate how they have supported their prior teams through organization, self-motivation, and task ownership skills, with the ability to accomplish duties in a high-impact, time sensitive environment. This position may require occasional nonstandard work hours in support of business schedules.
Basic Qualifications:
High school diploma and a minimum of six years additional education and/or experience in the administrative professional field or a bachelor’s degree with two years' experience in the administrative professional field.
Computer skills required include advanced expertise in Microsoft Office software (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel), SharePoint and intranet/internet proficiency.
Understand the sensitive nature of working in an executive office and have good judgement, problem solving skills and maintain the highest levels of confidentiality.
Ability to work independently, foresee needs and be proactive.
Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment and manage information flow in a timely and accurate manner.
Ability to solve problems and meet deadlines with a great level of flexibility.
Experience with Concur (or similar) travel and expense reporting system.
Ability to efficiently coordinate Outlook calendar and other routine items.
Prior experience coordinating both on and off-site meetings and/or events.
Preferred Qualifications:
Ability to swiftly adapt to new tools/technologies to drive efficiency and organization across the global team.
Experience participating and hosting in-person and remote Video Teleconference meetings (i.e. Zoom, Skype, Teams, WebEx, etc.)
Must have the ability to independently compile and generate reports/presentations.
Experience writing, proofreading and correcting documents.
Expert level proficiency with oral and written communication skills.
Must be able to interface with executive level internal and external contacts with considerable autonomy.
Demonstrated ability to manage multiple administrative projects and initiatives; experience in supporting a variety of executive levels, management level and administrative support within an organization.