Executive Assistant
15 days ago
Jamaica
Job DescriptionPosition Overview: The Executive Assistant serves as a trusted partner and gatekeeper who provides high-level executive support to the President & CEO, ensuring priorities and workflows are managed effectively. This role manages sensitive information, facilitates decision-making, and serves as a key liaison between the President & CEO and internal/external stakeholders. Additionally, the Executive Assistant manages the Executive Office and Reception function. Reports To: President & CEO FLSA Status: Non-exempt Salary Range: $80,000 - $100,000 ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES • Provides comprehensive administrative support to the President & CEO, including managing complex and dynamic calendars, preparing expense reports and purchase orders, managing email correspondence, drafting confidential communications, and coordinating detailed travel itineraries and agendas, • Manages calendars and calls for the President & CEO, prioritizing requests and handling sensitive information with the highest level of discretion, • Prioritizes and routes critical, strategic, and institutionally significant information to ensure timely review and decision-making, • Coordinates with the senior leadership team to schedule meetings, track action items, and follow up on outstanding deliverables, • Leads meetings and coordinates company-wide tasks & events with the other administrative assistants in the company• Serve as a point of contact for JFKIAT’s parent company, Schiphol USA & Royal Schiphol Group, • Plans and organizes company-wide events, including holiday celebrations, company outings, and executive and senior leadership meetings and conferences, • Oversees operations of the Executive Office, including the Visitor Center and subcontracted staff, while fostering an efficient and positive work environment, • Schedules, prepares for, and attends internal meetings; develops agendas and tracks follow-up action items, • Bachelor’s degree preferred; Associate degree required, • 8 to 10 years of administrative experience at an executive level preferred, • Experience in an airport environment preferredSpecial Requirements, • Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, • Understanding of corporate structure, operations, and strategic priorities, • Familiarity with business terminology, executive-level communication norms, and decision-making processes, • Knowledge of project management concepts and workflows, • Understanding of financial basics (budgets, reports, KPIs), • Understanding of corporate structure, operations, and strategic prioritiesSkills, • Strong administrative, organizational, and customer service skills with the ability to manage calendars, prioritize high-volume tasks, and multitask effectively in fast-paced environments, • Excellent written and verbal communication skills for engaging internal and external stakeholders, complemented by strong problem-solving, conflict management, negotiation abilities, and emotional intelligence, • Demonstrates professionalism, discretion, and diplomacy when handling sensitive situations with minimal supervision, • Active learning: Understand the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making, • Active listening: Give full attention to what other people are saying, take time to understand the points being made, ask questions as appropriate, and not interrupt at inappropriate times, • Time management: Manage one’s own time or the time of others, • Coordination with others: Adjust actions in relation to others' actions, • Judgement and decision making: Consider the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate oneAbilities, • Ability to exercise sound judgment and initiative in managing complex assignments, analyzing information, and delivering executive-level recommendations, • Ability to provide proactive executive support, interact professionally at all levels, and serve as an effective gatekeeper, • Ability to manage logistics, produce executive-level materials, and perform with discretion, accuracy, adaptability, and effectiveness under pressure, • Comprehend oral information: Listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences, • Speak: Communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand, • Comprehend written information: Read and understand information and ideas presented in writing, • Write: Communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand, • Recognize problems: Tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong, • Reason to solve problems: Apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense And our corporate values designed to: Powered by JazzHR KoF3kN3QPY
