About the Role
The Executive Assistant provides secretarial and administrative support services to a Brown University Health Executive, embodying the organization's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence.
Responsibilities
- Schedules meetings, types agendas and supporting documents, compiles and distributes materials, and arranges for rooms and refreshments.
- Maintains attendance records and types and distributes meeting minutes.
- Assists in preparing complex administrative reports, performing data gathering, and drafting analyses.
- Interviews visitors and handles specific problems or requests within the scope of authority.
- Opens, sorts, and distributes mail addressed to the Executive.
- Maintains appointment schedules and arranges meetings and conferences.
- Books travel and lodging accommodations for seminars and conferences.
- Maintains accurate and orderly files, including confidential and personal files.
- Takes shorthand and transcribes dictation of correspondence, reports, and memoranda.
- Performs typing duties such as composing correspondence and preparing forms, tables, charts, records, and schedules.
- Researches, fact-finds, and assembles initial materials and data for various projects.
- Receives complaints and researches issues to resolution or referral.
- Prepares payroll for approval.
- May perform specialized functions such as bulk purchasing of supplies and requisitioning office supplies.
- Maintains schedules, trains, and orients division clerical staff.
- Provides direction and guidance to secretarial staff.
- Maintains the Administrative Manual, including typing and distributing policies and procedures.
- Records expenses and tracks them against budgeted expenses.
- Reviews correspondence, memoranda, and reports prepared by others for accuracy and completeness.
- May requisition regularly used office supplies with authority to sign for purchases within specified limits.
- Maintains quality assurance, safety, environmental, and infection control standards.
- Performs other related duties as required.
Requirements
- Equivalent to an Associate's Degree in Secretarial Science.
- Comprehensive knowledge of PC word processing and spreadsheet software applications.
- Five years of progressively responsible secretarial experience.
- Work is performed in a typical office environment, requiring extended periods of sitting, standing, and walking.
- May provide functional supervision of up to four full-time equivalent employees, including scheduling, orienting, and providing guidance.
Skills
- Shorthand may be required.
- PC word processing software
- Spreadsheet software
Location
- 2 Dudley Street - MOC - N/A Providence, Rhode Island 02903
Work Type
- Full-time
- Day Shift
- 8 hours daily
Experience Level
- Five years progressively responsible secretarial experience
Education Level
- Associate's Degree in Secretarial Science
Salary/Compensations
- $28.12-$46.39
About the Company
- Brown University Health employees are expected to successfully role model the organization's values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence.
- The core Success Factors include: Instill Trust and Value Differences, Patient and Community Focus, and Collaborate.
Equal Opportunity
- Brown University Health is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and maintaining a work environment free from all forms of unlawful discrimination and harassment.
