Executive Administrative Assistant

Description

The Defense Sector at Leidos currently has an opening for an Executive Administrative Assistant to work in our Alexandria, VA and Pentagon locations. This exciting opportunity will use your experience to support DoD Senior Leadership, and Executive working groups.

This position does require the ability to work on-site daily at the work location in Alexandria, VA. In addition, there will be days where you will be asked to work on-site at the Pentagon. Parking will be fully provided at the Alexandria location and transportation from Alexandria to the Pentagon will be provided as well.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Managing and maintaining AWG website and related content.
• Ensuring appropriate metadata capture and organization to facilitate efficient and logical website navigation and document discoverability.
• Providing corresponding insight and advice to support decisions on content.
• Collaborating with programmers and AWG leadership on website design, development, maintenance, and improvement.
• Work with AWG leadership to build and survey the annual AWG budgets; maintain data and requests on financial activities to requests are accurately captured and ensure all appropriated funding is executed as expected.
• Managing and maintaining AWG budget tool. Ensuring appropriate metadata capture and organization to facilitate efficient budget tracking and provide insight to support financial decisions.
• Providing collaboration support for new projects as specified by AWG leadership.
• Coordinating organizational calendar, project tracking, and conference schedules.
• Providing support for AWG meetings of management bodies to include coordinating the agenda, dates/times, and locations of the meetings, scheduling conferences rooms, maintaining access control to relevant facilities, communicating information to key stakeholders, assisting in the preparation of briefings materials, track completion of the action items, posting all relevant materials to the AWG website.
• Providing all necessary support to facilitate or present at meetings, seminars, symposia, workshops, working group meetings, and off-sites.
• Support includes facilitation, presentation, and participation as a subject matter expert, as well as, desktop computer operations, processing requests, scheduling, arranging for facilities, preparing materials to include read ahead materials, and recording and producing minutes as well as post-forum reports and briefings.
• Coordinating conference room and Video Teleconference (VTC) requirements for AWG meetings, conference, workshops, etc.
• Receiving and handling visit access requests on behalf of AWG.
• Performing ad-hoc efforts as requested by AWG leadership. The completion of those tasks will be based on a timeline mutually agreed to by the Government and the contractor.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 4+ years of experience or a Master's degree with 2+ years of experience. Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• US Citizen with an active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a SCI.
• Ability to manage executive schedules, multiple meetings, and working in classified and unclassified environments; arrange classified and unclassified conferences and meetings.
• Experience using advanced computer skills including information management, using and managing data, setting up and troubleshooting electronic processes to streamline procedures.
• Expertise managing a wide range of management and administrative duties (travel, calendars, correspondence, organization charts, telephone lists) in support of the office.
• Experience facilitating senior management correspondence and communication including preparing memos, and correspondence with minimal oversight, as well as accurately compose and prepare effective correspondence and reports.

Preferred Qualifications:

• PMP certification
• Experience working within the Department of Defense
• Detail oriented, professional demeanor with strong organization and proven interpersonal skills.
• Ability to exercise mature judgment and make independent decisions in accordance with established policies, rules and procedures.
• Ability to work in a team environment, interacting with a range of federal and contractor staff.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite (MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Outlook, and MS Excel) with particular emphasis on word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet applications required.
• Experience maintaining physical security of classified safe, including all content, from creation through destruction in accordance with and in compliance with applicable regulations.

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Original Posting:

July 7, 2026

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

Pay Range $69,550.00 - $125,725.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That's why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Securing Your Data

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Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.