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Senior Administrative Assistant - Military Veterans

at HERC- Upper MidWest

  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: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with highly developed customer service skills.

    Required Skill/ability 2: Strong skills using Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point and Outlook (intermediate proficiency).

    Required Skill/ability 3: Must have a high level of attention to detail and strong organizational skills. Proven ability to handle competing and shifting priorities.

    Preferred Education: Proficiency with Epic. Proven surgical Scheduling experience. Demonstrated experience with Qgenda. Knowledge and experience with Workday.

    Work Week: Standard (M-F equal number of hours per day)

    Posting Position Title: Senior Administrative Assistant

    University Job Title: Senior Administrative Assistant

    Preferred Education, Experience and Skills: Proficiency with Epic. Proven surgical Scheduling experience. Demonstrated experience with Qgenda. Knowledge and experience with Workday.
    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

New Haven, CT

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