Reporting to the Administrative Services Supervisor, this position provides a high level of administrative and clerical support to the Yale Cancer Center. Under limited supervision and exercising independent judgment and initiative, assist with coordination of academic and business activities related to travel, reimbursements, procurement, meeting and event coordination. Provides backup support to other administrative office staff as necessary. May perform other duties as assigned. Ability to ar... more details
Reporting to the Administrative Services Supervisor, this position provides a high level of administrative and clerical support to the Yale Cancer Center. Under limited supervision and exercising independent judgment and initiative, assist with coordination of academic and business activities related to travel, reimbursements, procurement, meeting and event coordination. Provides backup support to other administrative office staff as necessary. May perform other duties as assigned. 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. 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. 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.