Executive Assistant to SVP

Position Title: Executive Assistant to SVP Requisition Number: 7972 Employment Status: FT N-Exempt Division: Corporate Operations Division - 10007253 Location: Silver Spring State: Maryland Job Description: Position Summary: Discovery Communications seeks an experienced, professional, and highly motivated individual to provide executive legal administrative support to a senior vice president of business and legal affairs in a high volume, fast-paced in-house environment Responsibilities: 1. Develops procedures to ensure functional office operations. 2. Schedules SVPs appointments, maintains and updates SVPs daily calendar. May assist other executives on the team. 3. Types and composes memorandums, policies, minutes, manuals, letters, forms, procedures, contracts, proposals, and other documents and correspondence as appropriate. 4. Provides legal administrative support handling transactional, production, litigation and other entertainment business and legal matters. Generates contracts from standard forms and tracks them at various stages of production/execution. Administer contracts and oversee execution process. 5. Proofreads, edits and redlines documents and effectively navigates and operates within various computer databases relating to areas of responsibility 6. Answers telephone, screens calls, routes callers, takes messages, responds to internal and external inquiries, and provides routine information within scope of authority.  Handles inquiries from internal and external contacts, and drafts related correspondence 7. Schedules, organizes and coordinates meetings and facilities, including travel, transportation and hotel arrangements, coordination, preparation and distribution of materials, agendas, notes, handouts, etc, arranging for refreshments, preparing nametags and documenting minutes. Arranges presentations and conferences; prepares charts and timetables. 8. Responsible for the financial processes of check requests, invoices and purchase orders. 9. Performs other related duties as assigned. Requirements: * Bachelors degree or Associates degree with equivalent work experience * At least five years administrative, business or communications experience * Preferred candidate will have a minimum of five years legal secretarial or paralegal experience at a law firm or in legal department of an entertainment company * Candidate should display a great deal of initiative and the ability to work independently under pressure in a deadline-driven, detail oriented environment while maintaining high standards of accuracy, composure and professionalism at all times * Candidate must have the ability to work with and maintain confidential information * Ideal candidate must have strong computer skills, including a mastery of Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Lotus Notes and Adobe Acrobat Writer and ability to navigate in web-based database environments * Excellent verbal and written communication skills, writing and editing ability focused primarily on correspondence and related documents, highly responsible and sensitive to quick turnaround deadlines * Exceptional organizational, prioritization, and administrative skills * Absolute proficiency is necessary in Windows, Lotus Notes, Word, Excel, PowerPoint (a must), Organizer, and database management * Candidate must have the ability to identify, prioritize, and manage important administrative issues, multi-task and effectively prioritize work assignments in addition to handling changing priorities * Highest level of interpersonal skills and the ability to interface with senior executives, displaying diplomacy, tact, and resourcefulness. * Must have the legal right to work in the United States. var isResizable = false;

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Category:	Office Employment
	> Administrative Assistant      > Executive Assistant
Location:	Silver Spring, MD
County:	Montgomery County
ZIP Code:	20901
Pay Rate:	Open
Job Terms:	full time
Company:	Discovery Communications
Phone:	email only please
Fax:	email only please