**Description** SAIC is seeking an Administrative Assistant in our Silver Springs, MD office! **Essential Functions** **_Administrative Support:_** + Provide administrative assistance, including writing and editing emails, drafting memos, developing meeting minutes, and preparing communications on the executive’s behalf. + Perform executive-level calendar management, including scheduling, de-conflicting, and prioritizing meetings on the executive’s behalf. + Communicate with stakeholders across organizational components and levels. + Track and maintain action items, prioritize action items, facilitate executive-level review, and provide recommendations on a daily basis. + Provide meeting management, including developing and distributing presentations and agendas, facilitating meetings, taking meeting minutes, and tracking action items on the executive’s behalf. + Coordinate travel arrangements on the executive’s behalf. + Advise executive-level staff by providing recommendations that consider risks, impacts, and feasibility. + Identify areas for process improvement and support the realization of those improvements through the development/updates of policies, procedures, tools, and templates. + Recognize strategic objectives and align these objectives with tactical actions. + Answer phone calls in a polite and professional manner. + Understand organizational policies and procedures to ensure the accuracy of solutions and deliverables to the client. + Demonstrate a commitment to quality and customer support. **_Special Projects and Smartsheet Solutions:_** + Lead and execute special projects, including Smartsheet initiatives, under the direction of the OCIO by identifying opportunities for Smartsheet automations to enhance OCIO-wide operations. + Collaborate with developers to design custom Smartsheet tools and implement these tools. + Support gap analysis between strategic objectives and tactical actions. + Train staff and implement Smartsheet solutions to improve efficiency and productivity. **Qualifications** **Education & Training** · Bachelor’s degree **Minimum Experience & Skills** · Five or more years of professional experience · Must be a U.S. Citizen and have the ability to pass a background check · Excellent written and verbal communication skills **Desired Education/Certifications & Skills** · Two or more years experience supporting executive level staff + High proficiency with Smartsheet or Other Project management Tools + High proficiency in Google Suite **Clearance:** + Must be a US citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust Clearance SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline. Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site. REQNUMBER: 2410403 SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability