Senior Administrative Assistant

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Overview

Reporting to the Manager, Administrative Services, will provide high-level administrative support for faculty and lab members in the Cardiovascular Medicine Translational Research Imaging Center. Under limited supervision, this role requires the ability to exercise judgment and initiative while demonstrating strong attention to detail and managing multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment. The Senior Administrative Assistant will cultivate and maintain strong working relationships with research faculty, Principal Investigators, lab members, trainees, sponsors, and other key stakeholders. The Senior Administrative Assistant provides substantive administrative support to Cardiovascular Medicine, including detailed management and tracking of information. They maintain consistent engagement with research faculty, departmental administration, research trainees and candidates, and other research colleagues.

Responsibilities include coordinating business activities related to travel and reimbursements with a high level of detail and processing a high volume of expense reports with high accuracy. The role also includes maintaining faculty calendars, renewal of licenses, organization of annual symposium, ordering and maintaining equipment and supplies, and providing professional, confidential support. The Senior Administrative Assistant collaborates with other support staff to ensure general duties and responsibilities are appropriately shared and coordinates events and meetings, including food orders and planning logistics.
The role will also involve collaboration in special projects, working alongside leadership to improve processes, enhance efficiency, and support strategic initiatives. Provide administrative support related to research and grants. Additional administrative duties may be assigned to adapt to the evolving needs of the department.

The position will be fully on-site 5 days/week.

Required Skills and Abilities
1. Demonstrated ability to handle a complex portfolio of work in an intensive multi-tasking environment.
2. Ability to prioritize work, manage multiple tasks, creatively problem-solve, and meet tight deadlines independently and as part of a team.
3. Proven experience managing and maintaining calendars and schedules in a fast-paced professional environment. Attention to detail, organized and professional demeanor.
4. Well-developed computer skills; advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook.
5. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written; ability to deal effectively with all levels of staff with demonstrated outstanding organizational and customer service skills. Proven ability to draft, edit, and proofread correspondence for content, style, and grammatical accuracy; excellent spelling, grammar, and proofreading skills.
Preferred Skills and Abilities

1. Proven experience with Workday preferred. Proven experience with Endnote and/or PubMed preferred.

2. Proven experience working in a medical school, academic, or hospital setting.

3. Proven experience supporting research faculty

4. Proven experience handling travel arrangements.

Principal Responsibilities

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.

Job Posting Date

09/09/2026

Job Category

Administrative Support

Bargaining Unit

L34

Compensation Grade

Labor Grade D

Compensation Grade Profile

Hourly Range

$31.83

Time Type

Full time

Duration Type

Staff

Work Model

On-site

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. For additional information on the background check requirements and process visit "Learn about background checks" under the Applicant Support Resources section of Careers on the It's Your Yale website.

Health Requirements

Certain positions have associated health requirements based on specific job responsibilities. These may include vaccinations, tests, or examinations, as required by law, regulation, or university policy.

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