Executive Assistant to Chief Legal Officer| Hybrid | Reston, VA

About Ellucian

Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with approximately 3,000 customers across 50 countries, serving more than 21 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for all students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future.

These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, including data-rich tools for student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners and user community of more than 45,000 provides best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

Ellucian is seeking an experienced, highly professional Executive Assistant to the Chief Legal Officer (CLO) to provide dedicated executive support to the CLO and help ensure the smooth operation of the Office of the Chief Legal Officer. The Executive Assistant will serve as a trusted partner and extension of the CLO, enabling the CLO to operate effectively across enterprise priorities, Board responsibilities, executive leadership commitments, and the Legal organization.

This is a highly visible role for an accomplished Executive Assistant who excels at supporting senior executives in a fast-paced, global environment. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted partner to the CLO, managing a complex calendar, coordinating meetings and travel, anticipating priorities, preparing executive-level materials, and ensuring the CLO is organized and prepared for critical meetings, decisions, and commitments.

Because this role supports Ellucian's senior-most Legal executive, exceptional judgment, discretion, executive presence, and attention to detail are essential. You will regularly interact with members of the executive leadership team, Board members, outside counsel, senior business leaders, and other key stakeholders while handling highly sensitive and confidential information.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned Executive Assistant who is proactive, resourceful, highly organized, and skilled at anticipating the needs of a busy C-suite executive.

• Provide comprehensive executive support to the Chief Legal Officer, serving as a trusted partner and helping the CLO effectively manage priorities, commitments, and day-to-day responsibilities.
• Strategically manage the CLO’s complex and frequently changing calendar, time, and priorities, exercising sound judgment to sequence commitments, resolve competing demands, and protect time for the CLO’s highest-value priorities.
• Serve as a trusted point of coordination for the CLO, thoughtfully managing incoming requests, determining appropriate routing and urgency, and ensuring the CLO’s attention is focused on the matters where it will have the greatest impact.
• Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements, including detailed itineraries, accommodations, transportation, and changes that may arise while traveling.
• Manage the CLO's expense reports, invoices, administrative processes, and other executive-related transactions accurately and on time.
• Anticipate and prepare for the CLO’s upcoming meetings, decisions, and commitments by ensuring appropriate context, agendas, materials, stakeholder information, decisions required, and relevant follow-up are organized in advance, helping ensure the CLO is fully prepared for critical discussions and engagements.
• Partner closely with the CLO to coordinate and prepare for Board of Directors and committee activities, executive leadership meetings, Legal Leadership Team meetings, and other enterprise-level commitments, ensuring the CLO is well prepared and that interactions with senior internal and external stakeholders are seamless and highly professional.
• Prepare and format executive…