Northrop Grumman Hiring for Executive Assistant to VP Job at Falls Church, VA Full Time

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Description

Join Northrop Grumman on our continued mission to push the boundaries of possible across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. Enjoy a culture where your voice is valued and start contributing to our team of passionate professionals providing real-life solutions to our world’s biggest challenges. We take pride in creating purposeful work and allowing our employees to grow and achieve their goals every day by Defining Possible. With our competitive pay and comprehensive benefits, we have the right opportunities to fit your life and launch your career today.

Northrop Grumman is seeking an experienced Executive Administrative Assistant to support the Vice President & Chief Information Officer at our Falls Church, Virginia location. As a valued member of the senior leadership 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 different abilities, diverse thinking and varied backgrounds who find professional fulfillment in understanding and solving challenges that make our world a safer place.

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 emotional intelligence, and integrity are essential for this position. In addition, the candidate must be comfortable working in a high energy, collaborative, diverse, professional environment.

The ideal candidate will be team-oriented, have 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 extremely pivotal to the success of a new, highly critical operation 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. The successful candidate will have outstanding communication and negotiation abilities. 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) and intranet/internet proficiency.

Key Traits:

• Must have the ability to independently compile and generate reports/presentations.

• Individual must be able to complete a wide variety of tasks with minimal supervision

• Ability to efficiently coordinate Outlook calendar and other routine items.

• Experience with Concur (or similar) travel and expense reporting system.

• Demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality

• Prior experience coordinating both on and off site meetings and/or events.

• Experience proofreading and correcting documents for grammatical errors.

• Proactive, highly motivated and adaptable, with excellent organizational skills including the ability to juggle multiple tasks, changing needs, and competing priorities.

• Expert level proficiency with oral and written communication skills.

• Must have experience in supporting a variety of executive levels, management level and administrative support within an organization.

• Must be able to interface with executive level internal and external contacts with considerable autonomy.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ability to swiftly adapt to new tools/technologies

• Experience participating and hosting in-person and remote Video Teleconference meetings (i.e. Zoom, Skype, WebEx)

Salary Range: $69,300.00 – $115,500.00

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay . Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results. Employees in Vice President or Director positions may be eligible for Long Term Incentives. In addition, Northrop Grumman provides a variety of benefits including health insurance coverage, life and disability insurance, savings plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business.

Northrop Grumman is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, national origin, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected class. For our complete EEO/AA and Pay Transparency statement, please visit http://www.northropgrumman.com/EEO . U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.