Top Operations & Support Jobs in Washington DC,

The Chief of Staff partners with the CEO and leadership team to drive strategic execution, operating rhythms, OKRs, special projects, investor readiness, market assessments, and executive communications. The role develops metrics, supports government and investor relationships, builds business cases, coordinates diligence, and translates technical and commercial information into decision-ready materials. It requires strong cross-functional influence, discretion, communication, and independent ownership in a defense and deep-tech startup environment.

Provides administrative and governance support to Brookings’ Board of Trustees, senior leadership, and Executive Office. Responsibilities include preparing agendas and minutes, managing board documents and portal publishing, scheduling meetings, maintaining trustee records and CRM data, supporting research and special projects, drafting correspondence, troubleshooting technology, and handling confidential information.

Provides comprehensive executive and operational support to the President of MCAAD, including calendar and communication management, meeting coordination, travel, events, briefing materials, correspondence, expense reporting, stakeholder engagement, and special projects. The role requires discretion, strong organization, excellent communication, sound judgment, and the ability to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced hybrid office environment.

Manages and preserves enterprise multimedia, creative, communications, and historical assets across digital and physical collections. Responsibilities include administering DAM systems, maintaining metadata and taxonomies, developing archival structures and retention policies, overseeing asset lifecycle and preservation workflows, conducting audits, supporting rapid retrieval, and training stakeholders. The role collaborates across creative, communications, technical, and operational teams to improve content governance, discoverability, accessibility, compliance, and long-term institutional continuity.

Provides onsite technology support for a law firm, troubleshooting hardware, software, networks, mobile devices, audiovisual systems, telephones, and security interfaces. Responsibilities include ticket resolution, application support, equipment installation and repair, inventory management, user onboarding, software training, remote access assistance, and technology setup. The role requires strong customer service, communication, documentation, confidentiality, and collaboration with local and central technology teams.

Maintain and secure U.S. Coast Guard intelligence systems by applying patches, security baselines, and STIG configurations. Resolve Tier 2 and Tier 3 technical issues across hardware, operating systems, networks, and applications. Manage Active Directory accounts and permissions, remediate vulnerability findings, support audits and compliance reporting, maintain documentation, and coordinate with security and network teams on classified-system changes and incidents.

Provides administrative and operational support for the Office of Federal Relations, including complex scheduling, calendar management, travel arrangements, purchasing, records maintenance, communications, briefing materials, lobbying disclosure reporting, event coordination, and federal legislation tracking.

Supports brokers with client pursuits, commercial real estate deal execution, process development, and workflow management. Maintains pursuit, client, deal, and deadline tracking while improving CRM and monday.com data quality. Evaluates AI tools and automations, coordinates with brokers and internal teams, and contributes to infrastructure research, interactive maps, and market reports focused on data centers and power-intensive real estate.

Supports a senior executive by managing complex calendars, priorities, relationships, travel, logistics, briefings, projects, CRM records, proposals, and presentations. The role requires proactive judgment, discretion, polished communication, strong follow-through, and coordination across clients, stakeholders, time zones, and global priorities. The assistant will work onsite in Washington, D.C., five days per week and support business development and executive engagements.

Welcomes visitors and clients, manages calls and correspondence, coordinates appointments and meetings, maintains the reception area, provides administrative support, handles documentation and data entry, and assists with daily office operations while delivering professional customer service.