Strategic Executive Assistant & HR Operations Partner

Kinross Gold Corporation; Fort Knox (KY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kinross Gold Corporation in Fort Knox, KY seeks an experienced executive assistant to support the General Manager and Operations Manager. You will prepare presentations, manage travel, meetings, reports and communications, and support HR and community relations teams in a fast-paced mining environment.

The role requires discretion, strong organizational skills, and the ability to handle confidential information.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, resource management, communications, or related field.
• 3+ years office management or related community relations experience.
• Strong PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook, and Word skills.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication.
• Mining industry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• To provide administrative support for the GM and OM Team.
• Provides high-quality EA support for General Manager and Operations Manager.
• Anticipates needs, performs routine and non-routine tasks, and handles high-level or confidential correspondence; ensures accuracy and high-quality work.
• Schedules and coordinate meetings and meeting agendas; takes meeting minutes and distributes them as necessary.
• Builds travel agendas and obtains required travel documentation.
• Completes expense reports.
• Coordinates calendars and schedules.
• Completes a variety of different projects and tasks as necessary.
• Assist the Community Relations and HR departments
• Coordinating special projects and events (Examples - Employee events, Youth Safety Day, School, and public tours, QBR site events).
• Support internal and external communications at Fort Knox.
• To prepare documents and maintain administrative systems.
• Implements and maintains filing and organization systems, ensuring strict confidentiality.
• Maintains a directory of contacts.
• Drafts, edits and distributes memos, reports, and presentations.
• To act as a key point of contact for GM and OM Team.
• Liaises with internal and external contacts and responds to information or material requests, often on behalf of the Managers.
• Responds to or re-directs phone calls and e-mails.
• Coordinates visits with internal (Kinross) and external visitors, including travel itineraries and company house organization.
• Assist with invoice payment, research, and validate purchases and credit card reconciliations.
• Backup support in Human Resources during available capacity or as directed.
• Provide administrative support for HR functions, including onboarding activities, data entry, audits, and report generation, training schedules, benefits enrollment, employment verification, recruitment logistics.

Skills

Strong communication

Time management

Organizational skills

Discretion & confidentiality

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in marketing, resource management, communications, or related field

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Outlook

Word

Job description

Kinross Gold Corporation in Fort Knox, KY seeks an experienced executive assistant to support the General Manager and Operations Manager. You will prepare presentations, manage travel, meetings, reports and communications, and support HR and community relations teams in a fast-paced mining environment.

The role requires discretion, strong organizational skills, and the ability to handle confidential information.