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Company: Kelly Services
Location: East Hartford, CT
Career Level: Entry Level
Industries: Recruitment Agency, Staffing, Job Board

Description

Executive Assistant
**$33.65/hour**
*Requires active SECRET clearance to start*

Kelly Government Solutions is hiring for an executive assistant on a Department of Defense contract with our customer in East Hartford, CT.  This is a long-term contract position that should last two plus years.

Duties & Responsibilities:
Administrative Support

  • Perform administrative and clerical tasks with high attention to detail
  • Manage executive calendars, ensuring meetings are scheduled with detailed agendas and appropriate logistics
  • Screen and field incoming inquiries, manage scheduling requests, and coordinate communications efficiently and confidentially
  • Prepare, reconcile, and process invoices, travel arrangements, and expense reports in a timely manner
  • Format and prepare presentations, reports, and other materials in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
  • Support special projects, assignments, and employee onboarding activities as required
  • Develop and maintain Standard Work documentation where applicable
Office Management:
  • Oversee seating assignments, office moves, and facility renovations
  • Maintain office distribution lists, coordinate announcements, and manage conference room scheduling
  • Manage Eurest, catering, kitchen duties/supplies, and employee engagement activities
  • Coordinate cleaning services, plant maintenance requests, and office vendor relationships
  • Monitor and resolve printer issues, including supply management
  • Act as the liaison with IT and Secure Computing Digital Teams for coordination and prioritization
  • Provide general administrative assistance and team support
  • Coordinate on-site and off-site catering, meetings, and events

Qualifications & Experience:
  • AA/AS degree, Technical/Business School Certificate/Diploma, or other relevant post–high school training
  • Five (5) + years of administrative support experience, including support for senior executives
  • Five (5) + years of experience using Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with strong attention to detail
  • Proven ability to interact effectively across all levels of a large, complex organization

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Visit https://www.mykelly.com/help-support-working-with-kelly-us/#Benefits for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

What happens next:
Once you apply, you'll proceed to next steps if your skills and experience look like a good fit. But don't worry – even if this position doesn't work out, you're still in our network. That means our team of expert recruiters will have access to your profile, making your opportunities limitless.

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As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

Why Kelly® Government Solutions?

Looking to connect with premier government agencies or the top 25 federal government contractors? Kelly Government Solutions partners with these organizations to create expert talent solutions that solve the world's most critical challenges. We offer a variety of full-time, project (SOW), seasonal, and surge support opportunities in science, engineering, technology, professional, and administrative support roles. Our experts will connect you to the opportunity that fits your schedule and interests and handle the details of transferring and processing all levels of security clearances. It's just another way we make the job search work for you.

About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we're obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it's about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It's the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It's the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California's state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.


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