Executive Assistant-541016

The Executive Office for Public Diplomacy (R/EX) requires an Administrative Assistant IV (Senior Executive) to support Public Diplomacy Front Offices. Support includes, but is not limited to, all functional roles of an Administrative Assistant, from scheduling, drafting memos, coordinating taskers, and providing substantive analysis on policy issues, to travel, budget, and project management, as well as other functions that directly assist an Assistant Secretary, Chief of Staff and Front Office. Exceptional critical thinking, writing and organizational skills is required, as well as the ability to prepare senior principals for a vast array of meetings, engagements, and events. At the direction of R/EX leadership, the incumbent may, for a defined period, provide equivalent executive administrative or operational support to any senior Public Diplomacy (PD), in order to ensure continuity of operations across the PD enterprise.

Job Duties:

• Provide support directly to Deputy Assistant Secretary level and above.
• Conduct research, draft, and edit written materials such as correspondence, memoranda, speeches, reports, newsletters, and briefing papers.
• Prepare briefing checklists, briefing papers, and briefing books in preparation for a vast array of meetings and events.
• Help to coordinate and staff diplomatic and other high-level meetings, consultations, and liaison engagements, including those with ministers of fo