Henry Ford Health · 1 day ago
Sr Administrative Secretary - Dialysis Administration - 40 Hours/Week
Henry Ford Health is seeking a Sr. Administrative Secretary to provide secretarial, clerical, and administrative support services under the general supervision of the Vice President, Division Head, or Physician-in-Charge. The role involves preparing correspondence, scheduling meetings, maintaining files, and conducting special projects, while also managing interactions with visitors and handling sensitive information.
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Responsibilities
Performs a wide variety of typing duties, such as composing correspondence and preparing forms, tables, charts, records, statistical tables, schedules, and so forth, which are often confidential in nature
May assign or check work of lower-classified secretarial or clerical employees
Assists in preparing complex administrative reports, statements, rosters and so forth. Performs difficult data and/or information gathering. Computes complex calculations, and drafts and prepares special reports/analyses for review by supervisor
Reviews and screens visitors and telephone calls, ascertains callers’ needs, and tactfully refers callers to appropriate personnel. Responds to inquiries concerning general administrative activities and operations and refers complex and/or sensitive inquiries to appropriate person(s)
Regularly engages in a variety of contacts inside and outside the organization to obtain or relay information, arrange meetings, gather data, and so forth, often dealing with executives, medical staff, trustees, or influential outsiders. In absence of, or as directed by supervisor, may be required to relay confidential or sensitive information
Receives and reads incoming correspondence, reports, memoranda and the like; screens items that can be routinely handled, prepares appropriate responses, and forwards remaining materials to supervisors or others along with necessary background information
Arrange meetings, conference, schedules, interviews and appointments; completes travel arrangements and maintains supervisor’s business calendar
Answers concerning activities and operations of subordinate departments by referring to and interpreting established departmental policies and procedures
Establishes, maintains and revises record keeping and filing systems, and classifies, sorts and files correspondence, articles, records and other documents
Attends meetings and takes, prepares and distributes minutes to appropriate personnel
Performs specialized functions pertaining to departmental operations, including bulk purchasing or departmental supplies and materials, and requisitioning regular office supplies and/or other general office duties that may be assigned
Qualification
Required
Requires a High School Diploma or a G.E.D. equivalent
One year certificate from college or technical school with at least three (3) years of experience within an office setting; or five (5) or more years of related secretarial experience within an office setting required
Previous experience scheduling appointments/maintaining calendars required
Progressively more responsible related work experience necessary to gain in-depth understanding or organizational policies, procedures and operations, to assume a variety of high-level administrative details including arranging meetings and conferences without prior clearance, answering semi-complex correspondence, assembling highly confidential and sensitive information, answering questions of influential callers, and so forth
Interpersonal skills necessary to effectively communicate with external and internal callers and visitors, often dealing with sensitive/highly confidential matters
Analytical skills are necessary to handle semi-complex administrative details such as preparing special non-recurring reports by combining confidential data from several sources, and scheduling and handling administrative/secretarial needs of supervisor
Company
Henry Ford Health
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Funding
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Late StageTotal Funding
$40.27MKey Investors
Mort Harris
2020-06-04Grant· $0.27M
2018-04-09Grant· $20M
2016-12-05Grant· $20M
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