About Our Job

Executive Office Assistant Intern– (10-week High School Internship)

Who We Are

The Denver International Airport (DEN) Executive Office division is actively seeking an enthusiastic Executive Office Intern (“DENtern”) to contribute to their division. As part of DEN's Strategic Plan, Vision 100, which envisions reaching 100 million annual passengers, the Executive Office plays a pivotal role in transforming the aviation industry. This role will offer senior and executive-level support to the airport’s executive vice presidents. Job duties will span from administrative support to small scale project management, and responsibility for working with department staff to manage calendars and coordinate meetings, as well as offer other support and coordination for office projects.

What We Offer

The City and County of Denver offers a competitive salary commensurate with education. All City and County of Denver emerging talent positions are supported by a trained hiring manager and encouraged to attend up to 4 sessions of professional development each season (Winter/Spring, Summer and Fall). You will be onboarded with a cohort of peers to begin to help you develop your network across the City and so you can go through similar programming throughout your time at the City.

What You’ll Do

As an intern you will get to experience working on projects such as, but not limited to:

• Project #1- Document Accessibility: Ensuring that all documents meet accessibility standards.
• Project #2 - Travel Expense Reports: Assisting with the preparation and submission of travel expense reports.
• Project #3 - Standard Operating Procedures Management: Helping to manage and update standard operating procedures.
• Project #4 - Ad Hoc CEO Projects: Supporting various projects as assigned by the CEO.
• Project #5 – Assisting the Executive Office Administration team with various clerical needs such as distributing weekly reminders, scheduling coordination, conference room reservations, and other items.

What You’ll Bring

Our ideal candidate has some or all the following interests, skills, and characteristics:

• Seeking to gain customer service and project management skills.
• Interested in administrative skills and C-Suite exposure, opportunities for research and innovation, professional development, and strategic engagement with diverse stakeholders.
• Research and Analytics: Ability to assess data and contribute to current studies with meticulous attention to detail.
• Effective Communication: Strong writing and communication skills to express concepts and results clearly and engagingly.
• Interpersonal Skills: Excellent verbal and nonverbal communication, conflict resolution, teamwork, empathy, listening, and a positive attitude.
• Flexibility: Ability to be productive regardless of when or where work is performed.
• Creativity and Innovation: Thinking outside the box to develop new concepts and turn creative ideas into practical outcomes.
• Time Management: Proactively taking on new challenges and responsibilities, effectively prioritizing activities to meet project deadlines.

Desired Skill Set:

• Attention to detail – Able to complete data entry with minimal errors.
• Customer Service – Interacts with customers in a friendly and professional manner, works to resolve issues quickly and effectively, and is knowledgeable about products and services.
• Learning - Uses efficient learning techniques to acquire and apply new knowledge and skills; uses training, feedback, or other opportunities for self-learning and development.
• Interpersonal Skills - Shows understanding, friendliness, courtesy, tact, empathy, cooperation, concern, and politeness to others and relates well to different people from varied backgrounds and different situations.
• Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgment to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.
• Reading – Understands and interprets written material, including technical material, rules, regulations, instructions, reports, charts, graphs, or tables; applies what is learned from written material to specific situations.
• Microsoft Office Suite – Moderate ability to use Microsoft Office Suite

Minimum Qualifications

• Education Requirement: This position is open to 16 to 18-year old's who are enrolled in high school, are homeschooled, or have graduated high school within the past 12 months.
• Experience: None
• Education and Experience Equivalency: No substitution of experience for education is permitted

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