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Administrative Assistant II
- Dartmouth, NS, Canada
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Overview
The Administrative Assistant provides high-level administrative support to a department or team, ensuring efficient day-to-day operations. Responsibilities include managing calendars, coordinating meetings, maintaining records, preparing documents, handling correspondence, ordering supplies, and supporting various administrative processes. This role may also assist with special projects involving data collection, reporting, analysis, and information management.
The successful candidate must be highly organized, able to manage multiple priorities, and possess strong communication and problem-solving skills. This position works with moderate supervision and exercises sound judgment when identifying and addressing issues.
For senior-level responsibilities, the role may include mentoring and training administrative staff, leading office initiatives or projects, managing confidential information, and providing advanced administrative support to leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage calendars, scheduling, meetings, and conference coordination
- Prepare, edit, and distribute correspondence, reports, and presentations
- Maintain filing systems, records, and administrative documentation
- Coordinate office supplies, mail distribution, and general office operations
- Support special projects through data gathering, reporting, and analysis
- Handle confidential and sensitive information with discretion
- Assist with process improvements and administrative efficiencies
- Train, mentor, and provide guidance to junior administrative staff as required
Qualifications & Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Strong organizational, multitasking, and time management abilities
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook)
- Experience with email and calendar management systems
- Strong administrative coordination and problem-solving skills
- Customer service experience with a professional and collaborative approach
- Ability to work independently while managing competing priorities
- Experience supporting leadership teams or senior stakeholders is considered an asset
What We Offer
Why work with Brunel? We are proud to offer exciting career opportunities from over 100 offices globally in 42 countries. Advancing your career takes time and effort – let us match you to your ideal position.
About Us
Brunel has a reputation for working with some of the best in the business. That’s what we continually strive for. Brunel provides the global recruitment and workforce services you need to lead your industry. With 50 years of market experience in Renewable Energy, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Life Sciences, Mining and Infrastructure, we help you finish major projects safely, compliantly, on-time, within budget and at the highest quality, so you can keep growing – anywhere in the world.
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Responsibilities
Manage calendars, meetings, correspondence, records, office supplies, and general administrative operations. Support special projects through data collection, reporting, and analysis, handle confidential information, improve administrative processes, and guide junior staff as needed.
Requirements
The role requires strong communication, organizational, multitasking, time-management, coordination, and problem-solving abilities, along with proficiency in Microsoft Office and email and calendar systems. Candidates should be able to work independently, manage competing priorities, and provide professional customer service; experience supporting leadership is an asset.
Skills
- Calendar Management
- Meeting Coordination
- Written Communication
- Verbal Communication
- Organization
- Multitasking
- Time Management
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Email Management
- Administrative Coordination
- Problem-Solving
- Customer Service
- Records Management
- Data Gathering and Reporting
- Confidential Information Handling
- Staff Training and Mentoring
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Categories
- Administrative
- Management & Leadership
- Data & Analytics
- Customer Service & Support
Keywords
- Administrative Support
- Calendar Management
- Meeting Coordination
- Conference Coordination
- Correspondence
- Reports
- Presentations
- Filing Systems
- Records Management
- Office Supplies
- Mail Distribution
- Data Collection
- Reporting
- Data Analysis
- Confidential Information
- Process Improvement
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Microsoft Word
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Outlook
- Email Management
- Customer Service
- Administrative Coordination
- Staff Training
- Mentoring