"Executive Assistant"

Position Summary

Provides administrative and organizational support to Senior Leadership.

Key Responsibilities

• Exercises judgment and discretion to handle incoming issues and requests, determining appropriate actions, responses, and solutions in a responsive and professional manner.
• Understands and effectively utilizes relevant Hospital chains of command and reporting systems to effectively triage a range of matters, including time-sensitive, challenging, confidential, and/or sensitive business and employee information and matters. Able to de-escalate personnel situations as necessary.
• Manages supervisor's calendars and meeting schedules with consideration of timing, sequencing, and meeting location/travel requirements.
• Arranges external travel and itineraries.
• Plans, prepares, and executes logistical and administrative requirements for meetings, interviews, seminars, conferences, and special events.
• Circulates agendas, minutes, presentations, and other materials. Coordinates logistical and technological arrangements to ensure seamless execution.
• Supports the business and financial operational responsibilities through tracking expenses, facilitating the contract management process, ensuring timely execution of contracts, handling purchase orders and reimbursements, and tracking department budgets.
• Drafts emails as directed, creates and edits correspondence with manager guidance, and drafts other communications as directed.
• Accurately maintains an effective filing and document management system for department information and/or files.
• Interacts with vendors and external parties.
• Completes other projects as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

Education: Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.

Experience: Minimum 1 year of relevant administrative experience. 3 years preferred.

Must have the ability to work with a high degree of independence from conception to completion.

Must be able to work under pressure and handle a wide variety of simultaneous activities and confidential matters with trust, confidence, and discretion.

Analytical skills to resolve problems that require the use of basic scientific, mathematical, or technical principles.

Work requires the ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and provide empathy in difficult interpersonal situations.

Must have the ability to prioritize, oversee, and manage projects.

Ability to work with diverse internal and external constituencies spanning front-line staff to senior-level Executive(s)s as well as a variety of external stakeholders.

Highly adaptive to new technologies and expert in all key Hospital administrative operating systems, including the Microsoft Office suite and PeopleSoft.

Ability to take personal initiative and work independently, as well as part of a team.

Ability to meet deadlines in a complex and fast-paced environment.

About Boston Children's Hospital

Boston Children's Hospital is a 395-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care. As one of the largest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Children's offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth through 21 years of age.