Administrative Assistant CLA3 - Strait Area Campus and Pictou Campus

Reporting to the Principal this position will play a vital role in advancing the Colleges initiatives within the Campuses and Communities portfolio by fostering proactive collaboration and engagement with the Principals Administrative Assistants under the functional leadership of the Executive Assistant to the Vice President of Campuses and Communities.

As the Administrative Assistant to the Regional Principal at Strait Area and Pictou Campuses you will:

• Be a central contact person for the Eastern Region and have a significant role in fostering a nurturing and inclusive regional campus community environment for students and staff.
• Have overall responsibility for the daytoday operations of the office of the principal and the greater campus community through collaboration with the management team faculty and staff.
• Support the overall coordination of regional communications through various communication channels including email MS Teams Office 365 Tools and updating and maintaining the Strait Area Campus and Pictou Campus Connect sites.
• Provide confidential administrative support and administrative leadership such as accurately maintaining the principals electronic calendar and daily agenda submitting travel and expense claims preparing meeting agendas and minutes collating data as well as drafting proofreading and editing a variety of correspondence.
• Liaise with guests to the Principals Office on meeting requirements and logistics.
• This position requires a high level of initiative with an incumbent who anticipates needs and takes proactive measures within scope of authority.

Qualifications and Occupational Experience:

• The minimum educational qualification for this position is a Certificate and/or Diploma in Business or Administrative Professional/Office Administration.

• You have a minimum of 5 years (fulltime equivalent) of progressive experience at senior administrative levels in a fastpaced office environment.

• Experience working with various teams within the organization on the coordination tracking and stewardship of projects to ensure quality assurance.

• Occupational experience that includes administrative support for an executive role or a senior leader would be considered an asset.

• Excellent computer skills with a high level of proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite. Expertise in leveraging technology to steward administrative tasks and projects with Microsoft 365 including SharePoint One Note Teams Planner and Forms.

• Experience using workplace solution applications in the work environment (i.e. Peoplesoft Cognos etc..

• You are proficient in working in a digital environment; you take responsibility for acquiring knowledge about advancing technology; and you are committed to leveraging technology to ensure the most effective outputs while working in a geographically distributed environment.

• You are highly organized and able to coordinate competing priorities in a fastpaced environment.

Relevant Skills and Knowledge:

• You demonstrate a commitment to equity diversity inclusion accessibility and antiracism.

• You possess excellent interpersonal skills that enable you to interact at all levels of an organization industry partners and community partners and diverse populations.

• You are known for your superior customer service skills and can create a relationship of trust beyond the immediate interaction.

• Your superb team working skills enable you to contribute positively to a team environment.

• You are known for your problem solving and critical thinking skills.

• You are a strong communicator and demonstrate exemplary written communication skills.

• Attention to detail is vital as you will be working with budget figures reports and presentations etc.

• Ability to plan schedule and perform a wide variety of difficult and complex administrative and project management activities.

• Skilled at dealing with ambiguity and complexity and can effectively cope with change.

• Ability to establish and maintain accurate uptodate records in a digitized environment.

• You possess excellent coordination skills specifically related to meetings projects and logistics and can manage multiple agendas work independently exercise judgment and assume accountability.

• Proven ability in the research analysis and measurement of data for assessments and progress reports.

• As a creative selfstarter you have been recognized for your strong work ethic and your commitment to excellence.

• Ability to exercise tact diplomacy and confidentiality in managing the daytoday operations.

• Ability to operationalize new systems effectively.

• Demonstrated commitment to lifelong learning.

We value Diversity and Inclusion

The College values diversity and inclusion and is committed to employment equity. We encourage applications from all qualified candidates including Aboriginal/Indigenous Persons Black/African Nova Scotians members of racially visible communities persons with disabilities persons of a minority sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression and women. Applicants from these communities wishing to selfidentify may do so by completing the online questionnaire within the application.

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Candidates selected for interviews will be expected to provide at least three recent occupational references. The successful candidate will be expected to provide official transcripts to show proof of academic achievements.

NSCC is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. As part of this commitment NSCC will ensure that applicants are provided reasonable accommodations as required. If accommodation is needed to participate in the job application process please contact Jaclynn Kelly HR Generalist at emailprotected. Our Employee Workplace Accommodation Policy can be found here.