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Executive Administrative Officer

SAIC

Chantilly, VAJob$120–160K/yrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today

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Compensation
$120–160K/yr
Location
Chantilly, VA
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

TS/SCI clearance

Job overview

SAIC seeks an Executive Administrative Officer to provide administrative, operational, and logistical support to U.S. Space Force leadership in Chantilly, Virginia. The role supports front-office operations, calendars, travel, meetings, records, correspondence, and special events. It also tracks action items and deliverables and handles sensitive information with discretion. The position requires an active Top Secret/SCI clearance and substantial related administrative experience.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Project ManagementCalendar ManagementTravel CoordinationRecords ManagementMeeting CoordinationVisitor CoordinationEvent PlanningWriting and EditingMicrosoft OfficeProblem ResolutionCommunicationCoordinationCustomer EngagementDiscretionFlexibilityInitiative

Qualifications

Bachelor's+10, Master's+8 or PhD/JD+5 YearsTop Secret/SCI Clearance3 Years Administrative Experience

Full job description

Description

SAIC is seeking a highly organized, proactive, and detail-oriented Executive Administrative Officer to provide comprehensive administrative, operational, and logistical support to the U.S. Space Force (USSF) in Chantilly, Virginia. As the Executive Administrative Officer, you will serve as a key member of the front office team, supporting senior government leadership and ensuring the efficient execution of daily operations, special events, and mission-critical administrative functions.

Key Responsibilities to include:

  • Provide executive-level administrative, project management, and logistical support to senior leadership, including the Government Program Manager, Front Office Staff, military personnel, and civilian government employees.

  • Manage complex calendars, schedules, and daily priorities for senior managers, ensuring efficient coordination of meetings, appointments, site visits, and executive engagements.

  • Coordinate and process travel authorizations, travel arrangements, vouchers, and expense reports in accordance with government policies and procedures.

  • Develop, implement, and maintain office tracking systems, databases, spreadsheets, and administrative records to monitor projects, taskings, correspondence, and action items.

  • Plan, schedule, and coordinate meetings, conferences, briefings, and leadership engagements, including securing conference rooms, arranging facilities, preparing materials, and ensuring compliance with protocol and security requirements.

  • Serve as a central point of contact for visitor coordination and access requests, facilitating communication between government personnel, military members, contractors, and external stakeholders.

  • Develop, maintain, and organize front office filing systems, records management processes, and file plans to ensure compliance with records retention and information management requirements.

  • Monitor office administrative needs and maintain an adequate inventory of office supplies, equipment, and resources, initiating procurement actions as necessary.

  • Support the planning and execution of special events, ceremonies, leadership visits, off-site meetings, and other official functions by coordinating venue selection, attendee logistics, security requirements, travel arrangements, schedules, and event materials.

  • Prepare, edit, and distribute professional correspondence, reports, presentations, meeting agendas, and executive-level communications.

  • Track suspense items, action requests, and deliverables to ensure timely completion and accurate reporting to leadership.

  • Exercise sound judgment, discretion, and professionalism while handling sensitive, confidential, and mission-related information.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience

  • Bachelors and ten (10) years or more of related experience; Masters and eight (8) years or more experience ; PhD or JD and five (5) years or more experience.

  • Active and current Top Secret/SCI.

  • 3 years of relevant administrative experience supporting Military/IC/Government Civilian Leadership.

  • Ability to work in a fast paced, dynamic, and team environment with no supervision.

  • Strong problem identification/resolution skills, flexibility, initiative, and a proven ability to communicate and work with senior executives efficiently and effectively (to include experience interfacing/communicating with senior executive leadership in government or industry).

  • Strong experience in writing/editing memos and correspondence.

  • Excellent computer skills in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

  • Ability to communicate with a diverse audience of decision makers with varying levels of programmatic and technical expertise.

  • Effective communication, coordination, and customer engagement skills.

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

REQNUMBER: 2618697

SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability

How this job compares

Set against the 5,242 open Administrative Support jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 3, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$120–160K/yr
  • Virginia median$70–97K/yr41 salary ranges
  • US median$53–72K/yr711 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $140K, is 74% above the Virginia median midpoint ($80K) — in the top quarter of Administrative Support salary ranges in Virginia.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 160 open Administrative Support jobs in Virginia and 5,242 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Virginia
Experience
This posting asks for at least 3 years of experience; Administrative Support postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years at the median (2,037 postings).
Education
148 of the 5,242 open Administrative Support jobs (3%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 3, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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