Executive Assistant, Richmond, VA

Executive Assistant | Richmond, VA

Richmond Times-Dispatch | Lee Enterprises

Annual base salary: $50,000–$60,000, depending on experience

The Richmond Times-Dispatch is hiring an Executive Assistant to support its President, who also serves as Regional President of Virginia for Lee Enterprises. This role reports directly to the Regional President, manages her day-to-day executive support, and helps other senior leaders coordinate meetings and shared priorities.

What you’ll do

• Manage the Regional President’s calendar, schedule meetings, and coordinate travel.
• Prepare agendas, presentations, correspondence, and meeting materials.
• Track deadlines and follow up on action items with teams across Virginia.
• Coordinate with employees, clients, community partners, and visiting executives.
• Help with logistics for leadership meetings, community events, and special projects.
• Handle confidential information with discretion and sound judgment.

What you’ll bring

• Experience supporting a leader or team in an executive assistant, administrative, or similar role.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and clear written and verbal communication.
• The ability to prioritize requests, anticipate needs, and follow through as priorities shift.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel, HubSpot, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with project management or event coordination is a plus.

Why Join Us?

Lee Enterprises offers competitive wages in a dynamic, interesting work environment with career growth opportunities. We offer an extensive benefit program that can be personalized to your needs. Our benefit program includes medical, dental, vision, short and long-term disability, company provided life insurance and supplemental life insurance. In addition, we offer a 401K retirement plan with company match. We also offer generous paid time off to allow the flexibility to balance personal life and work. This includes paid parental leave for new parents.

Lee Enterprises is a leading provider of local news and information and a major subscription and advertising platform, with daily and weekly newspapers and rapidly expanding digital products serving 114 markets across 25 states. Our core commitment is to provide valuable, intensely local news and information to the communities we serve.

Lee Enterprises is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We respect and celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

For more information about Lee, check us out at www.lee.net.