Administrative assistant

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Arrange and co-ordinate seminars, conferences, etc.
• Plan and control budget and expenditures
• Supervise other workers
• Establish and implement policies and procedures
• Train other workers
• Train, direct and motivate staff
• Assign, co-ordinate and review projects and programs
• Record and prepare minutes of meetings, seminars and conferences
• Determine and establish office procedures and routines
• Plan, develop and implement recruitment strategies
• Schedule and confirm appointments
• Answer telephone and relay telephone calls and messages
• Answer electronic enquiries
• Order office supplies and maintain inventory
• Greet people and direct them to contacts or service areas
• Open and distribute regular and electronic incoming mail and other material and co-ordinate the flow of information
• Type and proofread correspondence, forms and other documents