Executive Assistant & Office Manager

• If staying organized, checking off to-do lists, building systems and managing complex logistics are your ideas of fun…
• If you enjoy helping leaders operate at their highest level while also keeping an office and team running smoothly…
• If you are an intuitive, detail-oriented self-starter who desires to leverage your skills in a high impact role supporting a team on a mission to help transform health care…
• We want to talk to you.

CURA Strategies, a fast-growing, award-winning health care communications and public affairs agency, is seeking a highly organized, proactive Executive Assistant and Office Manager who can support senior leadership while also managing the operational details that keep the office and team running smoothly. The right candidate anticipates needs before they arise, thrives in a fast-paced environment, and enjoys solving logistical challenges that allow others to focus on delivering excellent client service. CURA has been awarded a best place to work in Washington, D.C., with high employee engagement marked by a friendly, collaborative, mission-driven culture, leadership and financial transparency.

POSITION OVERVIEW

This is a full-time role supporting CURA’s CEO and members of the executive team. The Executive Assistant will serve as a key operational partner to leadership—ensuring calendars, communications, travel, expenses, office logistics and events are coordinated efficiently and professionally.

This role requires strong organizational skills, excellent communication and the ability to manage multiple moving parts simultaneously while maintaining a high level of discretion and professionalism. The position is based in the Washington, D.C. area and requires coming into our office in Arlington, VA, 5 days a week, however, not all working hours need to be in office. We can be flexible on actual work hours and are open to accommodating parents who are working around schedules involving school-aged children.

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Executive Assistant will provide high-level administrative support to CURA leadership while also managing key operational logistics for the office and team. Responsibilities include:

• Manage complex executive calendars, coordinating meetings across internal teams, clients, partners and external stakeholders while ensuring priorities are reflected in leadership schedules.
• Email inbox management including monitoring, prioritizing and flagging incoming emails, responding to routine emails when appropriate or drafting responses for executive review; tracking email follow-ups to ensure important conversations and requests do not fall through the cracks; organizing inbox folders and labels to keep communication streamlined.
• Plan and manage executive and team members’ travel, including flights, hotels, itineraries and logistics for conferences, client meetings and advocacy events.
• Support financial and operational processes, including executive and event expense tracking, receipt management, time entry and monitoring project or event budgets.
• Oversee core office operations, including office vendor coordination, office supplies, mail and shipments, and general office organization.
• Plan and execute internal events and retreats, including team meetings, offsites, and cultural events, ensuring seamless logistics and coordination.
• Support conference and external event participation, including registrations, sponsorship logistics, materials coordination and scheduling meetings with partners and prospective clients.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• At least 5 years supporting senior executives or working in an executive assistant, operations or administrative role.
• Exceptional organizational and operational skills, with the ability to manage complex calendars, logistics, documents and competing priorities with precision.
• Outstanding communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to represent executives professionally and coordinate across internal teams and external partners.
• Proactive and anticipatory mindset, able to stay several steps ahead of leadership by identifying needs, solving problems independently and removing operational friction.
• High degree of discretion and professionalism, with experience handling confidential information and sensitive communications.
• Technologically fluent and resourceful, comfortable learning new systems and leveraging tools such as Slack, Zoom, Box, ChatGPT, Harvest and Microsoft Office to keep work organized and moving efficiently.
• Must have access to a car and ability to bend, reach and lift boxes and office supplies up to 30 lbs.

WHAT WE OFFER

• Unlimited PTO after one year of employment
• Weekly free lunches (plus lots of free snacks and drinks in the office)
• Robust health benefits program
• 401K with company match
• Company outings and social gatherings
• Professional learning and development opportunities
• Paid maternity/paternity leave
• Transportation and mobile stipends

MORE ABOUT CURA

Our name, CURA – Latin for care, concern, and attention to others – exemplifies our mission: to work with clients to transform the health care system and improve lives. Whether our client is a business, a nonprofit or a government agency, we believe that taking transformative action to improve people’s lives is always the winning strategy. Our culture is built on a love for transforming health care through integrated communications, a desire to proactively serve and contribute, and strong partnership with our clients to deliver results.

Led by a bipartisan team of DC communications veterans, our approach has received considerable notice from industry peers. Since its launch in 2016, the company has received numerous awards and recognition, including:

• Washington Business Journal, Best Places to Work (2025 & 2026)
• PRovoke Media, North American Boutique Agency of the Year (2023)
• PRWeek, Outstanding Boutique Agency of the Year, Finalist (2023)
• PR News, Top Places to Work in PR (2020)
• PRovoke Media’s Global and North American New Agency of the Year (2018)

TRAITS WE ADMIRE IN OUR TEAM MEMBERS

• A passion for improving health care and driving smart creative campaigns to achieve transformational change
• Results-focused approach, and the ability to work closely with senior members of the team to manage and execute a campaign to success
• A leader with a proactive, positive attitude toward client service and team management.
• Responsive, dependable and accountable to team members and clients, and willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done—someone who doesn’t take no for an answer
• Enthusiasm about the unlimited growth opportunities that come with being a member of a fast-growing start-up firm and wants to stay for the long-term
• Mission-minded and excited to join the CURA family, which works hard to do good work (and has fun doing it)
• Not shy in sharing bold opinions, but respectful of the bipartisan nature of our firm

Equal opportunity

We provide equal consideration for all applicants regardless of race, color, religion, gender, marital status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, veteran status, or disability. In a recent blinded survey, 100% of employees strongly agreed that everyone at CURA is treated fairly across differences.