Senior Staff Assistant

The purpose of this task order is to provide professional services in the form of one (1) Senior Staff Assistants, who will support the R/PPR front office by performing the tasks described in this Statement of Work. Job Duties: Manage administrative support projects for the office, including developing systems and processes to support the projects; organizing, coordinating, and staffing regular meetings for the projects; drafting talking points, memoranda, and documents; taking accurate minutes of meetings; tracking implementation of the projects; responding to basic inquiries about the projects Provide recommendations to senior leadership on substantive matters related to office management, administrative functions, and engagement with other Department bureaus. Make administrative arrangements for conferences and meetings, apprise participants of necessary details, and ensure that all references and background documents are available. Prepare a physical and/or electronic binder outlining each coming day’s activities and compiling relevant preparatory paper for senior leadership. Track due-outs and follow-up items from senior leadership’s interactions, draft email and written correspondence as needed, and assign action to others as appropriate. Process incoming and outgoing materials including correspondence, reports, memoranda, and other written communications. Assign review and clearance responsibilities for incoming materials to subject matter experts, communicate with stakeholders to ensure deadlines are met, track status and monitor completion. Assign responsibility for drafting specialized correspondence, memos, briefing materials, presentations, and other informational products to subject matter experts. Provide guidance, feedback, and substantive editing support to drafters of informational products for senior leadership. Respond to queries on taskers and clearance requests from within the office and from other bureaus/offices. Edit letters, compose reports, review correspondence for accuracy and completeness, prepare presentation outlines, develop standard or form letters, and reply to inquiries. Develop background information and prepare outlines for senior leadership’s briefings, papers, and correspondence/reports. Advise leadership of important issues arising during their absence from the office, bringing significant items in reports, files, and correspondence to leadership’s attention. Prepare varied documents such as newsletters, brochures, flyers, special reports, briefings, manuals, etc. by integrating and laying out text and graphics on a page; adjusting the size of charts, graphs and pictures; applying publishing capabilities to enhance the presentation of data; changing tables to graphs; adding boxed explanatory text; highlighting/shadowing material; superimposing graphs with other graphs or clip art; importing graphics into text, etc. Prepare and gather all relevant trip materials for…