Executive Assistant

Core responsibilities:

• Manage the CEO's daily schedule, appointments, meeting logistics, and travel, ensuring the CEO is fully prepared for meetings, presentations, and events
• Draft, edit, and proofread communications, presentations, reports, and other materials with accuracy and attention to detail
• Serve as liaison to the Board of Directors, supporting all Board activities including meeting planning, materials preparation, minutes, and follow-up
• Plan, organize, and execute internal and external events including Board meetings, retreats, fundraising events, and special initiatives

This role enables the CEO to focus on advancing Outward Bound's mission, vision, and priorities, supporting the organization's work to prepare students with 21st-century skills for work, life, and civic leadership in an evolving world.

Required qualifications:

• 4-7 years of executive-level administrative support, ideally to a CEO/Executive Director or senior leader
• Proven ability to manage complex executive calendars, competing priorities, and multi-time-zone scheduling
• 2+ years supporting board or governance work, including committee coordination and follow-up
• Hands-on experience planning high-level meetings or events (board meetings, retreats, donor events)
• Proficiency with CRM systems (Salesforce preferred) and project management tools
• Experience working within a federated or networked organization, navigating multi-stakeholder communication

Salary Range: $58,500-71,500 annually. OBUSA offers a competitive benefits package including health/dental/vision insurance, short-term and long-term disability, life insurance, plus a retirement plan with an employer match. OBUSA offers 15 days of PTO per year, plus 10 federal holidays and paid time off for the last week of the year.

Outward Bound USA is a national non-profit educational organization that changes lives through challenge and discovery, providing programs that help youth develop social-emotional skills and build capacity to navigate the future with confidence, compassion, and curiosity.