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

The candidate will employ strong teaming and collaboration skills, which foster office unity and cohesiveness, in support of office administrative requirements.

Qualifications

Government clearance required

Must possess a Bachelor’s Degree in General Business Administration or related course work from an accredited University/College or a minimum of 2 years of secretary experience 

or

Associate’s Degree in General Business Administration or related course work from an accredited College or a minimum of 4 years 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 6 years of secretary experience

  • Prior experience as a secretary, administratively supporting lower-to-mid management levels of an office
  • Ability to independently accomplish advanced administrative tasks with no assistance
  • Fundamental understanding of the Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC)
  • Strong professionalism, with the ability to consistently demonstrate tact and maturity
  • Strong interpersonal and/or soft skills and office etiquette, within a professional environment
  • Strong communication skills both verbal and written
  • Good office organization skills, which facilitate a neat and orderly presentation of the work environment and administrative activities (Note: There is a clean desk policy that requires a clutter-free work environment and the proper storage of working papers)
  • Working knowledge of office information technology (IT) equipment (e.g. copiers, scanners, facsimile machines, computer workstations, phones, teleconference/video teleconference equipment) and the ability to independently operate such equipment in completing office administrative tasks
  • Working knowledge of MS Office software applications (i.e. Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook: Mail, Calendar and File Functions) and the ability to use these applications to efficiently complete office administrative tasks
  • Experience with office filing systems (hardcopy and softcopy) using specified format and structure
  • Self-starter who can work with minimal assistance, to complete all assigned work requirements
  • Strong 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
  • Prior DoD experience working in a related field a plus
  • Prior military experience and understanding of the military services a plus
  • Proficient working knowledge of PeopleSoft, Defense Travel System (DTS) with knowledge of the Joint Travel Regulation (JTR), NCERTS and SharePoint desired
  • Working knowledge of the internal coordination and approval processes desired
  • Working knowledge of Access database, the correspondence manual, File Plan requirements and corporate processes desired
  • Prior experience with the awards and decorations process desired
  • Ability to schedule, coordinate, set-up and 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.