Duke Corporate Education (Duke CE) is seeking a highly organized, proactive, and detail-oriented Executive Assistant to support our executive leadership team. This role is pivotal in enabling our leaders to operate efficiently and effectively, and offers exposure to a dynamic, global business environment.
As Executive Assistant, you will serve as a strategic administrative partner to our executives, managing complex calendars, coordinating domestic and international travel, organizing high-level meetings and events, and supporting a wide range of administrative tasks. You’ll be a linchpin in our operations, helping drive team efficiency and ensuring seamless day-to-day execution.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage complex calendars and resolve scheduling conflicts
- Coordinate domestic and international travel arrangements
- Prepare expense reports and manage reimbursements
- Organize meetings, conferences, and events, including logistics and materials
- Draft and edit documents, presentations, and reports
- Support meeting management and follow-up actions
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders professionally
- Maintain records, databases, and administrative systems
- Anticipate executive needs and proactively solve challenges
- Contribute to strategic initiatives and office priorities
Requirements
Experience: Minimum 4 years supporting senior leaders in a corporate setting
Education: Bachelor’s degree
Skills:
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently
- High attention to detail and commitment to excellence
- Comfort with data and administrative systems
- Agile, resilient, and solutions-oriented mindset
Salary Range: $68,000 – $75,000 per year.
Skills Required
- Minimum 4 years supporting senior leaders in a corporate setting
- Bachelor's degree
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently
- High attention to detail and commitment to excellence
- Comfort with data and administrative systems
- Agile, resilient, and solutions-oriented mindset
What We Do
Leaders are the greatest levers for winning in an unpredictable world. They create the conditions for success with customers, employees, stakeholders and society. Duke CE's purpose is to help these leaders get ready for what’s next in the midst of uncertainty. We primarily do this through our custom leadership programs, consistently ranked at the top by the Financial Times and Business Week. Previous experiences, right answers and new content are insufficient in addressing today’s challenges. In some instances, these may actually be counter-productive. Leaders need to have the capacity to understand context and how things work systematically. To do this effectively requires more than simply closing knowledge gaps. It requires a more fundamental reorientation and re-wiring to be successful.
