Executive Secretary to Top Executive

Description

Performs advanced, diversified and confidential secretarial and administrative duties requiring broad and comprehensive experience, skill and knowledge of organization policies and practices. Prepares correspondence, memoranda, reports, etc. Composes and may initiate routine correspondence and memoranda. Screens telephone calls and visitors, and resolves routine and some complex inquiries. Schedules and maintains calendar of appointments, meetings and travel itineraries, and coordinates related arrangements. Prepares and distributes minutes of meetings. Utilizes the assistance of one or more lower level secretaries on a project basis. Operates a personal computer and appropriate software packages or its equivalent. Typically provides secretarial services to an executive of the organization at the vice presidential level or equivalent, with responsibility for a major organization function, such as operations, human resources or sales. Employees in this classification typically analyze, compare and evaluate various courses of action and have the authority to make independent decisions on matters of significance, free from immediate direction, within the scope of their responsibilities. Primary activities and decision making authority are predominantly performed independently affecting business operations to a substantial degree. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.