Professional Assistant - Schools & Education

Professional Assistant Sands Anderson is seeking a highly organized, detail-oriented, and proactive professional assistant to support attorneys within the Schools & Education team or the larger Government group. This role will be responsible for administrative support, client service tasks, and marketing document preparation. The professional assistant role will include direct support for attorney visibility and practice growth initiatives by coordinating speaking engagements, preparing presentations, maintaining marketing materials, and assisting with day-to-day attorney needs. The ideal candidate is an exceptional communicator, highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite tools, including PowerPoint and Excel, and enjoys managing multiple projects in a fast-paced professional services environment. Primary responsibilities include managing calendars, schedules, and travel arrangements; coordinating meetings and preparing meeting materials; assisting with document preparation, proofreading, formatting, and filing; organizing electronic files and maintaining accurate records; processing expense reports and other administrative requests; providing general administrative support for attorneys and practice groups; assisting with mailing lists and marketing distribution lists; utilizing Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, and Teams; preparing and formatting client-facing presentations, trainings, and PowerPoint decks; assisting attorneys with preparation for speaking engagements, panel discussions, webinars, and CLE presentations; maintaining marketing collateral, practice group materials, and presentation templates; and coordinating logistics for client events, seminars, webinars, networking functions, and firm-sponsored programs. Qualifications include a bachelor's degree preferred, minimum of two years of experience in a legal professional assistant role, advanced proficiency in Microsoft PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams, strong formatting and document production skills, exceptional written and verbal communication abilities, excellent organizational, project management, and time-management skills, ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines, strong attention to detail and commitment to producing high-quality work, professional demeanor and ability to maintain confidentiality, and ability to work both independently and collaboratively with attorneys, clients, and staff. Sands Anderson PC is an equal opportunity employer. Sands Anderson is a drug free workplace.