Administrative Assistant (7 Months Contract)Placed

Our client is looking for a professional to join their team.

Who you are!

You are someone with initiative and strong interpersonal skills that can work collaboratively with leadership from across the organization. A professional with diplomacy, attention to detail, and a strong knowledge of Microsoft suite products.

What Your Impact Will Be

The role is responsible for providing administrative support to the team and its aligned activities, initiatives, projects, and working groups. As the key individual supporting the coordination of the team’s workflow and communications, the Administrative Assistant must have excellent organizational and communication skills to proactively assist the team meet deadlines, anticipate challenges, and find ways to address them.

The role is hybrid, there would be some in-office attendance needed 4-5 times a month or once a week.

Where is it based?

Vancouver, BC

Responsibilities

  • Establishes and maintains relationships with peers and contacts with access to information and to key business partners

  • Seeks and shares information and advice on how to get things done and who to involve

  • Converses with, and writes to, peers in ways that support transactional and administrative activities

  • Explains the immediate context of the situation, asks questions with follow-ups, and solicits advice prior to acting

  • Seeks out new challenges that require low to occasionally moderate risk-taking and receives authorization from the manager prior to acting

  • Determines the resources, team support, and technical needs necessary to enable success and procures them

  • Solicits input in gathering data that help identify and differentiate the symptoms and root causes of defined problems.

  • Suggests alternative approaches that meet the needs of the organization, the situation, and those involved.

  • Resolves problems and escalates issues with suggestions for further investigation and options for consideration as required.

  • Follows and adheres to organizational systems that result in multiple routines yet critical activities to be identified and completed on time.

  • Renegotiates priorities as necessary

  • Sets improvement standards to reduce errors, omissions, and oversights

  

Must Haves

  • High school graduation and some related work experience; OR an equivalent level of related work experience, education, and/or training may also be considered

  • Excellent writing skills and proven ability to develop clear, concise, and comprehensive written communication

  • Excellent judgment in setting priorities, identifying issues, and determining action required when working under pressure and deadlines

  • Superior interpersonal, oral communication and relationship management skills

  • Has a proactive approach and is adept at balancing major concurrent tasks and projects

  • Proven ability to respond to a wide variety of issues and deal with unclear situations and conflicting demands, and to seek leadership direction and support with priority setting when needed

  • Excellent computer skills using Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel

  • Demonstrated ability to work independently and as a member of the team

 

What’s in it for you? 

·       Salary of $45,000 - $48,000 plus benefits

·       Hybrid work

·       7-hour workday. Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Is this you?

Please send your resume to jobs@expertrecruiters.com and  consultant@expertrecruiters.com or apply online @ https://expertrecruiters.secure.force.com/ExpertRecruiters with your resume and cover letter to the attention of Darcia Bower, Managing Director, if you have already met a member of our team and are interested in this opportunity please call or email us asap