BCT Partners – Executive Administrative Assistant

BCT Partners, LLC; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

BCT Partners, a national management consulting firm, is seeking an Executive Administrative Assistant to support senior leadership in a fast-paced federal environment. The role manages complex calendars, travel, official correspondence, briefing materials, and executive-level documents, ensuring timely, accurate, and professional output.

You will coordinate meetings, prepare briefing materials, draft and edit communications, maintain document workflows and libraries, and collaborate with

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressively responsible executive administrative support experience.
• Direct administrative support to senior executives in a fast-paced environment.
• Experience managing complex calendars, travel, deadlines, and high-volume correspondence.
• Preparing meeting agendas, minutes, and executive documents.
• Managing document workflows, repositories, and approvals.
• Developing standard operating procedures and templates.
• Experience coordinating with executives, staff, clients, and external stakeholders.
• Federal government or contractor experience is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-level executive and administrative support to senior leadership, managing complex calendars, meetings, deadlines, travel, and rapid requirements.
• Coordinate executive meetings from planning through follow-up, including agendas, minutes, and action items.
• Draft, edit, format, and maintain official correspondence and briefing materials.
• Manage executive correspondence and document workflows from draft to archival.
• Maintain organized, version-controlled document libraries and records.
• Coordinate multi-level reviews, track approvals, and ensure timelines.
• Maintain logs and apply branding, style, and formatting standards.
• Support agency policies, procedures, directives, and related materials.

Skills

MS Office Suite

Executive communication

Organization & time management

Document control

Stakeholder collaboration

Attention to detail

Education

Associate’s degree in Business Administration / Public Administration / Office Administration / Communications

Bachelor’s degree preferred

Tools

SharePoint

Teams

Outlook

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

About BCT

We harness the power of expertise and innovation to solve complex social problems, transform lives, and create lasting change.

BCT is a management consulting firm that tackles complex social problems through data analytics, innovative solutions and program management. We believe complex issues are best solved through collaboration. As a result, we employ a multidisciplinary approach that combines domain expertise, research, evaluation, technology, organizational development, and a passion for change.

To learn more about how we live our values of Ubuntu (“I am because we are”) and our mission, go to our website and follow us on social media.

https://www.bctpartners.com/

About this Opportunity

BCT Partners & N-Touch Strategies have formed a joint venture to deliver impactful solutions for our clients and are building a team for a potential new project. While hiring is contingent upon contract award and project authorization, we are actively identifying talented professionals who can help us make a meaningful impact. Candidates selected through the job search process may receive a contingent offer of employment from either BCT Partners or N-Touch Strategies. The employing organization will be confirmed during the hiring process.

Learn more about N-Touch Strategies here: https://www.ntouchstrategies.com

About the Role

The Executive Administrative Assistant provides high-level executive, administrative, editorial, and operational support to senior leadership in a fast-paced federal environment. This role manages complex calendars, executive meetings, travel, official correspondence, briefing materials, document workflows, and stakeholder communications; conducts research; and supports the preparation, review, routing, and maintenance of policies, issuances, reports, presentations, and other executive-level materials. Serving as a key liaison between leadership, internal teams, clients, and external stakeholders, the position exercises sound judgment, discretion, responsiveness, and diplomacy while supporting timely decision-making and the delivery of accurate, professional, and accessible work products. As assigned, the role may provide guidance and oversight to other administrative staff.

To learn more, please refer to the “Our Clients & Projects” section at the bottom of this jobposting.

How You Contribute to the Team:

Executive Support & Coordination

• Provide high-level executive and administrative support to senior leadership, managing complex calendars, competing priorities, meetings, deadlines, travel, and rapidly changing executive requirements.
• Coordinate executive meetings from planning through follow-up, including scheduling, attendee coordination, agendas, briefing materials, meeting minutes, decisions, action items, and associated records.
• Conduct research, synthesize information from multiple sources, and prepare concise briefing materials, background information, talking points, reports, and other decision‑support materials.
• Coordinate executive travel, including scheduling, itineraries, authorizations, supporting documentation, and expense‑related records.
• Coordinate leadership and staff training activities, including schedules, registrations, records, and associated administrative documentation.
• Serve as a principal liaison among leadership, staff, clients, federal personnel, partners, and external stakeholders, exercising professionalism, diplomacy, and discretion in high‑visibility interactions.
• Anticipate leadership needs, proactively identify scheduling, correspondence, workflow, and coordination issues, and recommend practical solutions.

Executive Communications & Document Governance

• Draft, edit, format, route, track, distribute, and maintain official correspondence, memoranda, reports, presentations, briefing materials, policies, issuances, directives, guidance, and other executive‑level communications.
• Manage executive correspondence and document workflows from initial draft through review, approval, finalization, distribution, and archival.
• Maintain organized, version‑controlled document libraries and repositories, ensuring current approved materials are clearly identifiable and superseded versions are appropriately archived.
• Coordinate multi‑level document reviews and clearances, track outstanding approvals, and follow up with responsible parties to maintain required timelines.
• Maintain correspondence logs, review histories, approval records, distribution records, and other documentation necessary to support traceability.
• Maintain and apply established style guides, templates, standard operating procedures, naming conventions, formatting requirements, and executive communication standards.
• Support the preparation, review, and maintenance of agency policies, procedures, directives, issuances, FAQs, guidance, and related official materials.

Quality, Compliance & Administrative Leadership

• Perform quality‑control reviews of executive and administrative materials to ensure accuracy, completeness, consistency, readability, traceability, appropriate formatting, and professional presentation.
• Verify meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, briefing materials, schedules, action trackers, and other controlled records against available source information and approved materials, as appropriate.
• Review applicable written materials for alignment with organizational and client requirements, branding and style standards, federal plain‑language principles, and Section 508 accessibility requirements.
• Maintain confidentiality, security, and appropriate handling of sensitive, proprietary, official, or executive‑level information.
• Identify opportunities to strengthen executive‑office processes, document workflows, administrative practices, and quality‑control procedures; recommend and implement practical improvements.
• Provide guidance, coordination, and quality oversight to administrative support staff to promote consistent administrative, documentation, and records‑management practices.
• Perform other related executive, administrative, and operational duties as assigned.

Perform these and other reasonable tasks as assigned by management in support of BCT’s goals and objectives.

What You Bring to the Table:

As no individual candidate meets every qualification, we encourage candidates who meet most of these requirements to apply!

Educational Requirements:

• Associate’s degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Office Administration, Communications, or a related field. Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• An equivalent combination of relevant education, training, certification, and professional experience will be considered in lieu of a degree.

Experience Requirements:

• 5+ years of progressively responsible executive administrative support experience.
• Demonstrated experience providing direct administrative support to senior executives or organizational leadership in a fast‑paced, high‑visibility professional environment.
• Experience managing complex executive calendars, competing priorities, meetings, travel, deadlines, and high‑volume correspondence.
• Experience preparing meeting agendas and minutes, action‑item documentation, executive correspondence, reports, presentations, briefing materials, and other official documents.
• Experience managing document workflows, electronic repositories, controlled records, version management, review and approval processes, correspondence logs, and administrative tracking systems.
• Experience developing or maintaining standard operating procedures, document templates, style guides, administrative workflows, and executive‑office processes.
• Experience conducting research, synthesizing information from multiple sources, and preparing concise executive‑level briefings and decision‑support materials.
• Experience coordinating leadership, staff, clients, federal personnel, partners, and external stakeholders in high‑visibility situations.
• Federal government, federal government‑contractor, public‑sector, or similarly regulated executive‑support experience preferred.
• Experience supporting legislative affairs, public affairs, policy, communications, scientific, research, or similarly complex professional environments preferred.

Skills and Expertise:

• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint, as well as virtual‑meeting, document‑management, or comparable collaboration platforms.
• Strong professional writing, editing, proofreading, formatting, and executive‑communication skills.
• Strong organizational and time‑management skills, with the ability to manage complex schedules, competing priorities, review cycles, and changing deadlines.
• Knowledge of document control, version management, records management, document routing, approval tracking, and quality‑control practices.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into concise executive briefings, reports, presentations, talking points, and other decision‑ready materials.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to produce accurate, complete, consistent, and professional work with minimal supervision.
• Sound judgment, discretion, diplomacy, and professionalism when handling sensitive, proprietary, official, or high‑profile matters.
• Ability to anticipate executive needs, identify potential issues, and independently recommend or implement practical solutions.
• Ability to establish collaborative working relationships and communicate effectively with executives, staff, clients, and external stakeholders at all organizational levels.
• Ability to provide guidance, coordination, and quality oversight to other administrative staff, as assigned.
• Familiarity with federal plain‑language principles, Section 508 accessibility requirements, and federal document standards preferred.

Additional Requirements

• Ability to work primarily onsite at the designated client location during established business hours, with telework as authorized by the client.
• Ability to obtain and maintain the background investigation or Public Trust determination required for the assignment.
• Occasional travel may be required.

There are multiple factors considered in determining final pay for a position, including, but not limited to, relevant work experience, skills, certifications and competencies that align with the specified role, geographic location, education as well as contract provisions regarding labor categories that are specific to the position.

BCT & N‑Touch each offer competitive total compensation packages that, for this position, include base salaries between $70,000 and $80,000 along with generous benefits packages. Both BCT & N‑Touch’s benefits include partially subsidized medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401k plan with company match, company paid life and disability insurance plans, paid family leave, and a generous paid time off policy.

This is an onsite position located within commuting distance of the greater Washington, DC area. Though BCT & N‑Touch each have staff in multiple time zones, their headquarters locations are on the East Coast; BCT in New Jersey, and N‑Touch in Connecticut. Both companies support and encourage strong staff community, leveraging virtual communication tools and collaborative work practices.

Our Client & Project

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent federal agency that supports fundamental research and education across all fields of science and engineering. The Office of Legislative and Public Affairs (OLPA) leads the Foundation’s communications efforts by providing strategic outreach, public engagement, digital communications, and multimedia services that promote awareness of NSF’s mission and the impact of federally funded research.

This project provides comprehensive communications, digital, administrative, and program support services to NSF’s Office of Legislative and Public Affairs (OLPA) and other Directorates. The contract supports a broad range of functions, including website design and development, digital communications, multimedia production, graphic design, content management, strategic communications, event support, executive and administrative services, writing and editing, analytics, and stakeholder engagement. All services produce high‑quality, mission‑aligned communications that effectively engage policymakers, researchers, educators, the media, and the public.

BCT PARTNERS IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER AND PROVIDES EQUAL OPPORTUNITY TO ALL PERSONS.

No employee or applicant for employment will be discriminated against because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, military and/or veteran status, or any other Federal or State legally protected classes. BCT will recruit, hire, train and promote qualified individuals in all job titles, and ensure that all other personnel actions are administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, military and/or veteran status, or disability in accordance with Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, which require affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity in all aspects of employment. BCT Partners does not discriminate on the basis of national origin or citizenship status as provided under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986. If you are interested in applying and require special assistance or accommodations due to a disability, please contact Human Resources at [e-mail].