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Senior Administrative Assistant

Employer
YALE UNIVERSITY
Location
Connecticut, United States
Closing date
9 Dec 2019

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Bargaining Unit

L34 - Local 34 (Yale Union Group)

Time Type

Full time

Duration Type

Regular

Compensation Grade

Labor Grade D

Work Location

Central Campus

Worksite Address

127 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Work Week

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

Searchable Job Family

Administration, Secretarial

Total # of hours to be worked:

37.5

Position Focus:

Provides a high level of administrative support to Yale Law School faculty. This includes written correspondence, editing and proofreading, assembling and posting course materials, ordering books, processing expense reimbursements and making complex travel arrangements for faculty and visitors. Assist in basic research. Coordinate library needs. Work with RAs, maintain faculty calendar, maintain faculty office (books, files, arrange cleaning).

Essential Duties

  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 Education and Experience

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.

Required Skill/Ability 1:

Advanced ability with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook scheduling. Facility formatting material in various ways. Excellent keyboarding skills. Familiarity with cloud based, extensive electronic file storage and shared files, such as: Box, Drop Box. Familiarity with and ability to manipulate Adobe products.

Required Skill/Ability 2:

Excellent spelling, grammar, editing and proofreading skills.

Required Skill/Ability 3:

Demonstrated ability making complex travel arrangements, gathering information on various options/prices. Proven abilities processing expense reimbursements.

Required Skill/Ability 4:

Ability to be extremely well organized. Ability to adapt to shifting priorities. Strong communication skills - both written and verbal. Ability to maintain confidentiality.

Required Skill/Ability 5:

Basic online research skills and ability. Proven ability utilizing library resources for research purposes.

Preferred Education, Experience and Skills:

Bachelors Degree. Experience with Lexis/Nexis, Westlaw. Knowledge of Legal terminology. Experience using Google Scholar. Experience in a faculty support role with multiple supervisors. Workday experience. Canvas experience.

Weekend Hours Required?

Occasional

Evening Hours Required?

Occasional

Drug Screen

No

Health Screening

No

Background Check Requirements

All candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle, DOT certification, drug testing and credit checks based on the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of the background check. Please visit www.yale.edu/hronline/careers/screening/faqs.html for additional information on the background check requirements and process.

Posting Disclaimer

The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the essential functions that will be required of the position and should not be construed as a declaration of specific duties and responsibilities of the particular position. Employees will be assigned specific job-related duties through their hiring departments.

Affirmative Action Statement:

Yale University considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of, an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Yale discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects people from sex discrimination in educational programs and activities at institutions that receive federal financial assistance. Questions regarding Title IX may be referred to the University’s Title IX Coordinator, at TitleIX@yale.edu, or to the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, 8th Floor, Five Post Office Square, Boston MA 02109-3921. Telephone: 617.289.0111, Fax: 617.289.0150, TDD: 800.877.8339, or Email: ocr.boston@ed.gov.

Note

Yale University is a tobacco-free campus

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