Administrative Assistant

BCIT’s**School of Health Sciences** is seeking a temporary, part-time (90% FTE)**Administrative Assistant, Diagnostics and Advanced Therapies.** This role supports the Associate Dean (AD), Diagnostics and Advanced Therapies to achieve results and manage workflow. The incumbent is responsible for the efficient day-to-day operations of a fast-paced environment including coordinating projects and reports, data collection, analysis and recommendations, confidential and time-sensitive program and student-related concerns, and management of high priority initiatives and sensitive matters. The incumbent drafts various communications and materials for the Associate Dean that supports communicating with various internal and external stakeholders, including health authority leads and ministry representatives. The incumbent provides administrative support to the Associate Dean including scheduling meetings and management of calendars, travel, records management, and processing a variety of financial and operational transactions.-
- **Duties & Responsibilities**-
- **DUTIES** &

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Projects, Communication and Stakeholder Relationships**- Collects, analyzes and evaluates data from various internal and external sources and Institute systems; compiles into information to be used for reporting, issue resolution, presentations, program and process improvement initiatives
- Takes a leadership role in special departmental projects as assigned by the AD
- Develops communication, reports and presentations used by the AD’s with key stakeholders including; health authorities, certifying bodies, the Institute’s senior leadership team and government; ensuring that the vision, values and standards of the School and Institute are represented
- Communicates with contacts and other stakeholders at various levels within government agencies to gather, provide, and exchange a variety of data and other pertinent program information
- Develops knowledge of internal and external stakeholders, key priorities and environmental factors impacting the associate dean’s portfolios
- Anticipates, understands, and respond to the needs of internal and external stakeholders to meet or exceed their expectations within the organizational parameters
- Assesses situations to determine their importance, urgency and associated risks, and makes clear decisions which are timely and in the best interests of the organization
- Works cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that enhance organizational effectiveness
- Assesses problem situations and attempt to identify causes, gather and process relevant information and generate possible solutions/recommendations prior to escalating to AD for review and resolution
- Establishes and maintain positive working relationships with others both internally and externally to achieve goals
- Ensures data requests from both external and internal departments, directed to the AD’s office, are completed on schedule; follows up on outstanding deliverables
- **Administrative Responsibilities**- Sets priorities, develop a work schedule, monitor progress towards goals, and track details/data/information/activities with a focus on the AD’s workload and upcoming deliverables
- Acts on behalf of the AD concerning emergency situations with students
- Creates and maintains documents, databases, tables and a variety of correspondence, composes, signs and distributes correspondence related to administrative matters
- Deals with a variety of confidential information in a tactful and professional manner including student, human resources and labour relations issues and ensures proper policy and protocol has been followed prior to the AD’s involvement
- Manages and coordinates both associate dean’s schedules by booking appointments with Program Heads/Faculty, institute management and staff, and external stakeholders, maintains and organizes calendars effectively, and ensures background information and supporting documents are brought forward to the AD in a timely manner
- Schedules, prepares and distributes committee and other meeting documents, attends and takes minutes at a variety of committees chaired by the AD
- Provides administrative support for meetings and events on and off campus including room reservations, creates and sends invitations, ensures a quorum, arranges catering, parking and AV equipment, sets up virtual communication as required
- Screens and/or re-routes correspondence and composes replies for the AD’s signatures; routinely edits and proof read’s all internal and external correspondence, documents, plans, reports and articles for both departments
- Coordinates and/or initiates all necessary signatures required for documents such as purchase requisitions, cross charges, travel and expenses, library acquisitions, memberships, facilities and maintenance requests, and vacation payouts
- Coordinates travel arrangements and conference registrations, pa