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Executive Assistant

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Department: ADMINISTRATION
Local Title: Executive Assistant
Budget Title: Assistant to Vice President
Work Type: Full Time
Location: Brooklyn, NY
Categories: Management and Professional, Administrative

 

Are you looking to take your career to new heights with a leader in healthcare? SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is one of the nation's leading metropolitan medical centers. As the only academic medical center in Brooklyn, we serve a large population that is among the most diverse in the world. We are also highly-ranked by Castle Connolly Medical, a healthcare rating company for consumers, among the top 5 leading U.S. medical schools for training doctors.

Bargaining Unit:

MC

Job Summary:

The Office of the Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is seeking a full-time Assistant to Vice President / Executive Assistant. The successful candidate will:

  • Interact in person, by mail, and by phone on behalf of the Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, who reports to the President and the SVP's direct reports, including:
    • Information Services, Facilities, Management & Development, Office of Planning and Policy, the Division of Comparative Medicine, the Operations Manager; and other senior leadership in Academics, the Hospital, Research, and Office of Legal Counsel, among others.
  • Ensure appropriate and timely response to communications, both verbal and written.
  • Draft and/or edit letters, memoranda, emails, reports and proposals. 
  • Organize meetings, including preparation of meeting materials, and coordinating attendees, ensuring that meeting action items are documented and executed timely.
  • Prepare and monitor annual budget expenditures, requisitions, expense reports as well as submit human resources documentation for personnel changes.
  • Ensure adequate office management including filing, ordering, maintaining office space as needed.

Required Qualifications:

  • Advanced degree in a professionally related discipline.
  • 5 to 7 years of professional experience in higher education, public sector management or campus related enterprise;
    • OR 5 years of faculty experience, two of which must be at a senior administrative level.

Preferred Qualifications:

 

Work Schedule:

Monday to Friday; 9:00am to 5:00pm

Salary Grade/Rank:

MP4

Salary Range:

Commensurate with experience and qualifications

 

COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement:

 

  An approved COVID-19 vaccination.

Executive Order:

Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation.  If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Governor’s Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at info@goer.ny.gov.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement:

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University is an affirmative action, equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, creed, age, disability, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, familial status, pregnancy, predisposing genetic characteristics, military status, domestic violence victim status, criminal conviction, and all other protected classes under federal or state laws.

Women, minorities, veterans, individuals with disabilities and members of underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.

If you are an individual with a disability and need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please contact Human Resources at ada@downstate.edu

 

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