Secretary

  • Full-time

Company Description

We provide our federal customers with an exciting variety of IT and Intelligence services. In order to achieve our company growth goals, continually surpass our customer’s expectations and provide new opportunity for our employees, Metronome must attract the most professional and qualified employees.

Metronome believes in a strong company culture rooted in its core values and belief in our overall mission. We believe in supporting one another, exceeding our customer’s expectations, executing with passion and celebrating all successes. We work hard and encourage one another to have fun doing it.

Metronome is looking for individuals who also believe in these core set of values, those who yearn to support our nation’s vital projects and those who desire to work for a fast growing small business that appreciates each employee's contributions and trusts them to make decisions while representing Metronome…those who Keep Projects Pulsing.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Metronome is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to employees and applicants for employment, to assure that individuals with disabilities enjoy full access to equal employment opportunity (EEO). Metronome shall provide reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of qualified employees and applicants with disabilities, unless Metronome can demonstrate that a particular accommodation would impose an undue hardship on business operations. Applicants requesting a reasonable accommodation may make a request.

Job Description

The Secretary facilitates professional relationships, supports the efficient execution of all office administrative requirements and ensures a positive customer-oriented service experience by internal office personnel, external customers and visitors.

The candidate will articulate office administrative requirements/actions/needs in a professional tone and attitude, exchange information to facilitate positive and efficient work processes and results and produce written correspondence (i.e. email, letter, document, etc.) that is succinct, coherent, uses proper tone, demonstrates proper grammatical use of the English language and presents proper format/form per established corporate/office guidance.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES

  • Performs basic administrative tasks with minimal assistance, employing strong office and work organization skills
  • Multi-tasks in a fast-paced office environment

Qualifications

Government clearance required

Must possess a Bachelor’s or Associate’s Degree in General Business Courses or related course work from an accredited University/College of a minimum of 1 year of secretary experience

or

High School Diploma with Vocational/Military Training Certificate in Office Management, Secretary Services, or a related field or a minimum of 3 years of secretary experience

  • Prior experience that demonstrates a solid foundational knowledge and understanding of the responsibilities of a secretary, performing general office administrative tasks
  • Strong professionalism, with the ability to consistently demonstrate tact and maturity
  • Strong interpersonal and/or soft skills and office etiquette
  • Teaming and collaboration skills, which foster office unity and cohesiveness, in support of office administrative requirements
  • Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Proficient in using office information technology (IT) and the ability to operate standard office equipment (e.g. copiers, scanners, facsimile machines, computer workstations, phones, teleconference/video teleconference equipment)
  • Proficiency in using/applying MS Office software applications (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook: Mail, Calendar and File Functions) to complete administrative functions
  • Understanding of office filing systems (hardcopy and softcopy) and general requirements
  • Strong organizational, problem solving and time management skills
  • Detailed-oriented, with consistent, mature judgment
  • Able to handle a moderate and demanding workload, efficiently coordinate resources and reasonably work in a fast-paced environment, which may often have competing priorities
  • Fundamental understanding of the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) desired
  • Prior DoD experience working in a related field a plus
  • Prior military experience and understanding of the military services a plus
  • Ability to operate Video Teleconference (VTC) equipment desired

Additional Information

Core Values

Passion - We believe.  We execute with all we have.
Improving - We surpass our best efforts.
Teammates - We respect and support one another.
Mission - We align with our customers’ objectives.
Celebrate Success - We reward all achievements.