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Executive Assistant

Boston Children's Hospital
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Dec 2025
💰 $105,497/yr($65,936/yr – $105,497/yr)

About the role

Status

Full-Time

Standard Hours per Week

40

Job Posting Category

Administration

Job Posting Description

Position summary
Provides administrative and organizational support to Senior Leadership.

Key responsibilities

  • Exercises judgment and discretion to handle incoming issues and requests, determining appropriate actions, responses, and solutions in a responsive and professional manner.         
  • Understands and effectively utilizes relevant Hospital chains of command and reporting systems to effectively triage a range of matters, including time-sensitive, challenging, confidential, and/or sensitive business and employee information and matters. Able to de-escalate personnel situations as necessary.         
  • Manages supervisor's calendars and meeting schedules with consideration of timing, sequencing, and meeting location/travel requirements.         
  • Arranges external travel and itineraries.         
  • Plans, prepares, and executes logistical and administrative requirements for meetings, interviews, seminars, conferences, and special events.         
  • Circulates agendas, minutes, presentations, and other materials. Coordinates logistical and technological arrangements to ensure seamless execution.         
  • Supports the business and financial operational responsibilities through tracking expenses, facilitating the contract management process, ensuring timely execution of contracts, handling purchase orders and reimbursements, and tracking department budgets.         
  • Drafts emails as directed, creates and edits correspondence with manager guidance, and drafts other communications as directed.         
  • Accurately maintains an effective filing and document management system for department information and/or files.       
  • Interacts with vendors and external parties.       
  • Completes other projects as assigned.

Minimum qualifications
Education:
  • Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience.
Experience:
  • Minimum 1 year of relevant administrative experience. 3 years preferred.
  • Must have the ability to work with a high degree of independence from conception to completion.         
  • Must be able to work under pressure and handle a wide variety of simultaneous activities and confidential matters with trust, confidence, and discretion.         
  • Analytical skills to resolve problems that require the use of basic scientific, mathematical, or technical principles.         
  • Work requires the ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing and provide empathy in difficult interpersonal situations.         
  • Must have the ability to prioritize, oversee, and manage projects.         
  • Ability to work with diverse internal and external constituencies spanning front-line staff to senior-level Executive(s)s as well as a variety of external stakeholders.         
  • Highly adaptive to new technologies and expert in all key Hospital administrative operating systems, including the Microsoft Office suite and PeopleSoft.         
  • Ability to take personal initiative and work independently, as well as part of a team.         
  • Ability to meet deadlines in a complex and fast-paced environment.

Office/Site Location

Boston

Regular, Temporary, Per Diem

Regular

Remote Eligibility

Part Remote/Hybrid

Pay Range

$65936.00-$105497.60 Annual

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Company

Boston Children's Hospital

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