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HERC: Metro New York & Southern Connecticut Sr. Administrative Assistant in New Haven, Connecticut
Employer Name: Yale University
- 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: Ability to take initiative, anticipate actions needed, and use independent judgment. Ability to recognize and address urgent priorities, and take steps to resolve problems independently. Ability to prioritize to meet deadlines and follow schedules. Excellent follow up skills. Ability to adapt in unpredictable peaks in workload. Required Skill/ability 2: Proficiency in an administrative support role. Ability to type, format, and proofread a variety of correspondences and reports. Ability to provide clerical functions such as copying, faxing, mailing, etc. Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously in a fast-paced environment. Required Skill/ability 3: Strong communication skills, included demonstrated ability to communicate both orally and in writing in a clear, pleasant, grammatically correct, and professional manner. Strong customer service skills. Demonstrated attention to detail. Ability to maintain a high degree of professionalism and maintain confidentiality and discretion with sensitive information. Required Skill/ability 4: Excellent computer skills including intermediate ability or higher with MS Word and Excel. Ability to create slides and make changes to PowerPoint presentations. Demonstrated experience with Outlook calendaring in a professional environment is preferred. Ability to schedule and facilitate Zoom virtual meetings. Required Skill/ability 5: Ability to arrange travel, including flights, hotels and car rentals. Prior experience with facilitating room scheduling, catering, equipment and materials for seminars or events is preferred. Proven ability processing expense reimbursements. Preferred Education: Proven experience handling travel arrangements in a professional capacity. Knowledge of University systems, including Workday, SciQuest, Zoom, Qualtrics, etc. Proven experience supporting academic faculty. Proven experience supporting medical professionals. Work Week: Standard (M-F equal number of hours per day) Posting Position Title: Senior Administrative Assistant University Job Title: Sr. Administrative Assistant Preferred Education, Experience and Skills: Proven experience handling travel arrangements in a professional capacity. Knowledge of University systems, including Workday, SciQuest, Zoom, Qualtrics, etc. Proven experience supporting academic faculty. Proven experience supporting medical professionals. 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.