Executive Assistant - MUST HAVE SECRET CLEARANCE Job Listing at Kelly Services in East Hartford, CT (Job ID 10067108)

Description

Kelly Government Solutions is seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Executive Assistant to support a Department of Defense contract customer in East Hartford, CT. This is a long-term contract opportunity offering stability, competitive pay, and the chance to support senior leadership within a secure, high-impact environment.

Details:

$33.65/hour
Location: East Hartford, CT
Contract Length: Long-term
Clearance Required: Active SECRET clearance


Key Responsibilities

Administrative Support

• Perform a wide range of administrative and clerical duties with exceptional attention to detail
• Manage executive calendars, ensuring meetings are scheduled with clear agendas and proper logistics
• Screen and respond to incoming inquiries, coordinate scheduling requests, and handle communications with discretion and confidentiality
• Prepare, reconcile, and process invoices, travel arrangements, and expense reports in a timely manner
• Format and prepare presentations, reports, and documents using Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Support special projects, ad hoc assignments, and employee onboarding activities as needed
• Develop and maintain Standard Work documentation where applicable

Office Management & Coordination

• Oversee seating assignments, office moves, and facility renovation activities
• Maintain office distribution lists and coordinate internal announcements
• Manage conference room scheduling and logistics
• Coordinate Eurest services, catering, kitchen supplies, and employee engagement activities
• Arrange on-site and off-site meetings, events, and catering
• Coordinate cleaning services, plant maintenance requests, and vendor relationships
• Monitor printer functionality and manage supplies
• Serve as a liaison with IT and Secure Computing Digital teams to coordinate and prioritize requests
• Provide general administrative assistance and team support as needed

Qualifications & Experience

• Associate degree (AA/AS), technical or business school certificate/diploma, or other relevant post–high school training
• 5+ years of administrative support experience, including support for senior-level executives
• 5+ years of experience using Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong organizational skills with a high level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Proven ability to work effectively across all levels of a large, complex organization
• Active SECRET clearance required

Benefits & Perks

As part of our commitment to talent, Kelly offers a variety of benefits and work-related resources. Eligible employees may enroll in voluntary benefit plans including:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Telemedicine
• Term life, whole life, accident, and critical illness insurance
• Legal plan and short-term disability
• Retirement savings plan
• Holiday pay (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year)
• Transit spending account
• Paid sick leave in accordance with applicable state or local regulations

Learn more about Kelly benefits and perks at:
https://www.mykelly.com/help-support-working-with-kelly-us/#Benefits

What Happens Next
Once you apply, our recruiting team will review your experience. If your skills align with this role, you'll move forward in the process. If not, don't worry, you'll remain part of the Kelly Talent Community, where our recruiters can match you with future opportunities.
 

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

Why Kelly® Government Solutions?

Looking to connect with premier government agencies or the top 25 federal government contractors? Kelly Government Solutions partners with these organizations to create expert talent solutions that solve the world's most critical challenges. We offer a variety of full-time, project (SOW), seasonal, and surge support opportunities in science, engineering, technology, professional, and administrative support roles. Our experts will connect you to the opportunity that fits your schedule and interests and handle the details of transferring and processing all levels of security clearances. It's just another way we make the job search work for you.

About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we're obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it's about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It's the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It's the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California's state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

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