Sr. Executive Assistant - Strategy Office
City of Hope
Duarte, CA
Job posting number: #7324274 (Ref:10033695)
Posted: February 23, 2026
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
The Senior Executive Assistant will be responsible for the coordination of activities (operations and planning) and ensuring timely flow of information to and from the executive office. This role is responsible for handling details of a highly confidential and critical nature and must function efficiently and effectively in a fast-paced professional environment. In this position you will have a proven ability to independently manage multiple tasks and projects with competing priorities and deadlines and organize and maintain effective administrative processes. In addition, you will be responsible for coordinating and preparing presentations, reports, and correspondence.
As a successful candidate, you will:
Schedule & maintain calendar of appointments, meetings, & travel itineraries. Coordinate related arrangements.
Assist executive in maintaining & keeping scheduled appointments, meetings, etc.
Prepare & distribute minutes of meetings. Initiate follow-up on items discussed in meetings.
Collect documentation and submit expense reimbursement.
Open, read and prioritize incoming mail. Gather background information for executive to reply to issues posed in correspondence and other queries.
Initiate routine and some non-routine correspondence & memoranda. Draft correspondence for executive’s final approval.
Compile, compute, summarize & analyze data for special reports.
Plan, organize and prioritize special projects.
Take and transcribe dictation of a complex and confidential nature.
Have regular exposure to highly confidential information & files.
Your qualifications should include:
5 + years of experience in administrative & secretarial support at an Executive level.
Bachelor’s degree preferred. Experience may substitute for minimum education requirements.
Possesses high level of administrative and secretarial skills & versatility in use of PCs and related office software.
Excellent organizational skills.
Demonstrated experience in building effective professional relationships.
Additional Information:
City of Hope employees pay is based on the following criteria: work experience, qualifications, and work location.
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer.
To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, pleaseCLICK HERE.
Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $35.68 - $55.31 / hour
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.


