Administrative Assistant

Job Title: Administrative Assistant

Location: Chicago, IL 60637

Duration: 2 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Shift Timings: Mon - Fri (8:00 AM - 5:00 PM)

Pay Rate: $ 25.00-25.00/ Hourly

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is the second largest private employer in Chicago. We are a multicultural, international community of more than 20,000 faculty and staff—each supporting UChicago’s mission of inquiry and academic excellence. Our client is a Medical Center provides world-renowned patient care, while advancing medical science through groundbreaking research. Together, UChicago Medicine and the Biological Sciences Division are working to address the world’s most pressing medical challenges.

Job Description:

Qualifications:

• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong organizational skills
• Ability to take initiative and to work independently
• Ability to prioritize and manage concurrent tasks with interruptions, ability to meet deadlines and respond to many emails, in person and phone requests in a timely fashion
• Ability to work effectively without supervision and as a part of a team, individually or while taking directions from others
• Ability to work effectively with multiple constituencies, required
• Ability to establish good working relationships with people of different backgrounds
• Ability to handle multiple concurrent tasks in a competent and professional manner while also meeting deadlines
• Ability to maintain confidentiality/discretion related to students, faculty and staff, at all times
• Ability to work under pressure and to handle stress situations with multiple competing deadlines
• Ability to multi-task and have attention to detail
• Critical thinking, problem solving, and decision-making skills

Responsibilities:

• Provides administrative support to an organization unit requiring broad experience, skills and knowledge of organization policies and practices.
• Performs office management and general administrative functions for assigned manager/area.
• Serves as first point of contact to department, providing professional assistance with the appropriate sense of urgency.
• Performs a variety of administrative duties.
• Supports one or more members of management and/or staff in a business or functional unit.
• Work generally requires knowledge of company and/or business/functional practices, policies, programs and/or product line.
• Resolves routine and non-routine inquiries.
• Administrative responsibilities include calendaring, document preparation and management, correspondence, travel arrangements, and meeting/travel coordination.
• Maintains confidentiality.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.