Administrative Assistant

The Non-Kinetic Effects (NKE) Business Area in San Diego CA currently has an opening for full-time Administrative Assistant. NKE focuses on research and development (R&D) and technical innovation to solve complex customer needs.

Leidos is looking for you to join our team as an Administrative Assistant. As part of the team youll focus on supporting our incredible people from new employees to senior employees and management out of our San Diego CA office. You will work with local Management to ensure that our employees receive administrative support so that together we can fully focus on the critical missions of our customers.

Primary Responsibilities

• Perform a wide range of administrative office management and coordination of tasks with limited supervision including coordinating travel arrangements completing expense reports purchasing allocating coordination of calendars for meetings capital asset inventory fusion tracking facility requests non-po requests report ID assignment staff office assignment.

• Be called upon to support any number of support tasks and office management functions must be ready to adapt and prioritize current/new tasks and challenges with a positive can-do attitude.

• Support recruitment and hiring of new staff by scheduling and supporting job fairs candidate interviews to include travel and expense conference room reservations and meeting invites with interviewer schedule and agenda post-interview follow-up candidate tracking and new employee orientation and on-boarding workstation orders submitting pre-screening/nominations for security clearances visit authorization requests badge requests token requests Trusted Agent I-9 Verifier any office needs.

• Work with management to ensure employees are communicated with regarding company news policy changes and any other information.

• Facilitate small to large scale meetings ranging from small to large in-person and/or team meetings morale events and town halls with senior management.

• Utilize a variety of management information systems/business information systems in support of employees and management (e.g. travel requests purchasing requests non-gov/gov property processes capital assets etc.).

• Be open to providing backup other administrative staff as needed.

Basic Qualifications

• Qualified candidates must be a U.S. Citizen and hold a Top Secret clearance.

• 3 years relevant experience as an administrative assistant office coordinator/manager event coordinator or receptionist

• Must have calendar management skills including the ability to coordinate meetings.

• Possess strong communication and organizational skills and enjoy working with people in large office environments both local and remote

• Strong attention to detail and follow-through

• To maintain a flexible outlook and schedule with the willingness to accept additional assignments as needed.

• Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment on multiple projects simultaneously with a commitment to completion of projects on a timely basis.

• Fluency with web browsing Microsoft Office applications and enterprise resource planning (ERP) / management information systems (MIS) e.g. Workday Salesforce Costpoint Fusion CIO Central Ariba etc.

• Event Planning

Preferred Qualifications

• BA or BS degree

• Document editing desktop publishing and document production

• Proven event planning expertise that includes larger conferences and workshops

• Human resource/employee relations experience

• Familiarity with information management and handling sensitive employee information to include Privacy protected information.

At Leidos we dont want someone who fits the moldwe want someone who melts it down and builds something better. This is a role for the restless the over-caffeinated the ones who ask whats next before the dust settles on whats now.

If youre already scheming step 20 while everyone else is still debating step 2 good. Youll fit right in.

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Pay Range:

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job education experience knowledge skills and abilities as well as internal equity alignment with market data applicable bargaining agreement (if any) or other law.