Executive Assistant
Posted on: 1 Nov 2021
Silver Spring, MD
Job Description
Responsibilities
Schedule appointments, maintains and updates daily calendar.
Answer telephones, screen calls, route callers, take messages, respond to internal and external inquiries, and provide routine information within scope of authority.
Schedule, organize and coordinate meetings and facilities, including travel, transportation/hotel arrangements, prepare and distribute materials, agendas, notes, handouts, etc. Arrange presentations and conferences, coordinate equipment needs and refreshments, compile and distribute materials, etc.
Responsible for the financial processes of check requests, invoices and purchase orders. Arrange travel itineraries and prepare travel and expense reports.
Establish and maintain records and files. Review, sort and file a variety of materials.
Provide data entry and clerical support.
Assist with special projects and provide general office support such as copying and faxing.
Function as administrative liaison to departmental staff, other departments, external vendors and consultants.
Perform other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in related field of study.
Verbal and written communication, extremely strong interpersonal, organizational, prioritization, and administrative skills.
Proficiency in Windows, Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Must have legal right to work in the United States.
Discovery, Inc.
New York, New York
Discovery, Inc. (formerly Discovery Communications) is an American mass media company based in New York City. Established in 1985, the company is best known with its non-scripted and factual television channels, such as the namesake Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Science Channel, TLC, HGTV, Travel Channel, Food Network, Cooking Channel, and DIY Network. It also expanded to digital business, such as Group Nine Media (35%) and media properties for golf enthusiasts under the Golf Digest and GolfTV brands.
Discovery also owns or has interests in local versions of its channel brands in international markets, in addition to its other major regional operations such as Eurosport (a pan-European group of sports channels), Discovery Communications Nordic (which operates general-interest channels in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland), TVN Group in Poland, Lionsgate, an American-Canadian movie studio, and a portfolio of various free-to-air channels in Germany and Italy, and the UK such as DMAX and Real Time.
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IndustryMedia/Entertainment
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No. of Employees7,000
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Jobs Posted250
