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Employer Name: Yale University

1. Oversees and coordinates administrative, program, and office activities. Establishes, selects, implements, and coordinates office procedures and systems. Serves as principal source of information to students, staff, and faculty on policies, procedures, programs, and office activities.2. Oversees, instructs, and coordinates activities of support staff. Oversees the preparation of materials for grants, contracts and budgets. Monitors expenditures and reconciles financial statements.3. Provides editorial support for a journal/publication. Proofreads and edits material for grammatical and factual accuracy. Tracks copy through various editing and production stages. Communicates with authors, printers, and others concerned with published work.4. Determines administrative, facility, and equipment needs for symposia, lectures, seminars, and conferences. Assembles and arranges for necessary items. Determines sources of data. Compiles, synthesizes and manipulates data. Summarizes findings and writes reports or portions of reports.5. Greets visitors. Answers and screens telephone calls. Assesses nature of business. Responds to requests for information and provides assistance. Screens and responds to mail.6. Formats, keyboard, proofread, and edits correspondence, reports, manuscripts, grants, and other material. Assembles attachments and corresponding material. Reviews outgoing material for completeness, dates, and signatures. Composes substantive correspondence and written material.7. Coordinates travel arrangements. Schedules and coordinates meetings and appointments. Orders and maintains inventory of supplies. Takes minutes or dictation. Performs additional functions incidental to office activities. Required Skill/ability 1: Proven proficiency in an administrative support role. Demonstrated ability to work independently and as part of a team. Required Skill/ability 2: Excellent computer skills including intermediate to advanced skills with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook. Proven ability to schedule meetings using Outlook. Required Skill/ability 3: Ability to maintain a high degree of confidentiality. Required Skill/ability 4: Well-developed organization and time management skills. Required Skill/ability 5: Well-developed oral and written communications skills. Preferred Education: Bachelor's degree. Demonstrated experience with database management software (e.g. netdocs). Demonstrated experience with claims management information systems. Proven experience working in a law office. Proven experience working for an insurance agency or insurance company. Work Week: Standard (M-F equal number of hours per day) Posting Position Title: Senior Administrative Assistant (*) University Job Title: Sr Admin Asst General Counsel Preferred Education, Experience and Skills: Bachelor's degree. Demonstrated experience with database management software (e.g. netdocs). Demonstrated experience with claims management information systems. Proven experience working in a law office. Proven experience working for an insurance agency or insurance company. Six years of related work experience, four of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and high school level education; or four years of related work experience and an Associate's degree; or little or no work experience and a Bachelor's degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.