Executive Assistant

Overview

The Executive Assistant will perform a variety of administrative tasks aimed to optimize the time and performance of a manager or employees of a department; higher level roles will work for higher level managers or departments. Tasks may involve acting as a first point of contact, dealing with correspondence and phone calls, managing diaries, organizing meetings and appointments, preparing documents or reports, and controlling access to the manager/executive, and participating in projects.

May involve dealing with confidential information. This role will support two SVP’s.

City/State:
Virginia Beach, VA

Work Shift:

First (Days)

• Ability to understand executive’s goals and associated work products
• Leverage understanding of goals/work to anticipate needs
• Takes initiative to resolve or plan according to support success of executive and team/goals
• Consumer first orientation
• Follow‑through
• Ability to prioritize/reprioritize
• Ability to escape appropriately if issues cannot be independently resolved

• Exercises independent judgement on priorities, sensitive matters, and stakeholder communications
• Handles highly confidential and sensitive information with absolute discretion
• Manages complex, multi‑leader calendars with competing priorities
• Protects executive time by triaging requests and aligning meetings to strategic goals
• Prepares leaders with agendas, briefing materials, and decision context
• Navigates complex organizational structures to move work forward
• Prepare tailored letters, emails, and more complex reports and agendas and minutes of meetings for approval by the Executive
• Produce, update, and provide best practice support on complex Microsoft documents, databases, and other departmental systems, advising colleagues as needed and using expertise to help improve processes
• Prepare moderately complex documents using a variety of applications for technology devices, such as standard office software. Also responsible for gathering and summarizing data for reports
• Arrange venues, equipment, catering, accommodations, and travel for participants arriving from various locations to ensure the smooth running of medium‑scale events
• Identify, within the team, instances of non‑compliance with the organization’s policies and procedures and/or relevant regulatory codes and codes of conduct, reporting these instances and escalating issues as appropriate
• Answer the telephone and assist callers or those making a broad range of inquiries by email or mail or other means with any requests for information, directing more complex matters to colleagues as necessary
• Initiate contact internally and externally on a regular basis to convey requests, provide instructions, or obtain information on behalf of a senior colleague
• Receive visitors and respond accurately and promptly to a broad range of questions and issues raised
• Gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential
• Develop and maintain an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media

• High school diploma
• Three or more years of Executive Assistant experience
• Excellent writing skills
• MS Office

• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Adoption, Fertility and Surrogacy Reimbursement up to $10,000
• Paid Time Off and Sick Leave
• Paid Parental & Family Caregiver Leave
• Emergency Backup Care
• Long‑Term, Short‑Term Disability, and Critical Illness plans
• Life Insurance
• 401k/403B with Employer Match
• Tuition Assistance – $5,250/year and discounted educational opportunities through Guild Education
• Student Debt Pay Down – $10,000
• Reimbursement for certifications and free access to complete CEUs and professional development
• Pet Insurance
• Legal Resources Plan
• Colleagues have the opportunity to earn an annual discretionary bonus if established system and employee eligibility criteria is met

Sentara Health is an equal opportunity employer and prides itself on the diversity and inclusiveness of its close to an almost 30,000-member workforce. Diversity, inclusion, and belonging is a guiding principle of the organization to ensure its workforce reflects the communities it serves.

In support of our mission “to improve health every day,” this is a tobacco‑free environment.

For positions that are available as remote work, Sentara Health employs associates in the following states:
Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.