Executive Assistant

Level Description
Professional’ Leveling Guide consists of jobs with a professional nature that require “learned knowledge” most often attained through advanced education and experience. This can include business and/or clinical professionals.

Market Summary
Provides administrative support to executive officers such as the CEO or President. Handles details of a highly confidential and critical nature. Collects and prepares information for use in discussions/meetings of executive staff and outside individuals. Prepares presentation materials for meetings. Makes high level contacts of a sensitive nature inside and outside the company.

Impact
- May manage projects and processes, working independently with limited supervision.
- Makes decisions on moderately complex to complex issues regarding technical approach for project components. Often operates in ambiguous situations.

Communication
- Interacts with internal stakeholders within own department and departmental management, as well as external stakeholders which may include clients and customers.
- Influences internal and external parties, who regularly have divergent interests, to achieve short-term national and project objectives; represent the organization within area of responsibility.

Innovation
- Modifies existing methods, techniques and/or processes across job areas.
- Problems and issues faced are in general difficult, and sometimes complex.

Knowledge
- In-depth knowledge and expertise in own discipline combined with good understanding of market practice required.
- Typically requires:

- a bachelor's degree and 5-8 years of experience