Executive Assistant | Legal Affairs | Full Time | Detroit, MI
Detroit, MI 
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Posted 16 days ago
Job Description

GENERAL SUMMARY:

Under limited supervision from a Senior Level Executive in Leadership, provides personal and administrative support services such as preparing correspondence in final form, receiving visitors, scheduling meetings, maintaining files and conducting special projects as assigned. Duties require a thorough knowledge of supervisor's areas of responsibility in order to gather data and prepare reports, answer correspondence, conduct projects and so forth. All work is of a highly confidential nature.

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

  • High School Diploma/G.E.D. required in order to compose and prepare a variety of confidential reports, tables, memorandums, etc. Associates Degree in business or a secretarial field from a business school or college preferred.
  • This position will be with an in-house legal department in a health care setting and must also support several attorneys within that team. Therefore, prior experience in a legal setting is highly preferred, and prior experience in a health care setting is desirable.
  • Ability to read and write in order to proof and edit nonroutine reports and legal documents, correspondence and the like for sentence structure and readability as well as draft correspondence and reports, perform semi-complex arithmetic calculations when preparing administrative reports, monitoring budgets and the like, and develop and oversee maintenance of recordkeeping and filing systems at a level normally acquired through completion of two years of business school.
  • Ability to type complex tables, forms, reports and the like from rough draft or dictation at 50 w.p.m. and use one or more software packages.
  • Approximately five to seven (5-7) years OF progressively more responsible legal and/or health care related executive/administrative assistant work experience necessary in order to gain in-depth understanding of organizational policies, procedures, and operations in order 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 in order to effectively communicate with a diverse group of influential external and internal callers and visitors, often dealing with sensitive/highly confidential matters.
  • Analytical and tech-support skills necessary in order to handle semi-complex administrative details such as technology software applications (i.e., Outlook scheduling, WebEx/Teams meetings, MS Office applications) and associated hardware considerations to support frequent remote/tele-meetings, preparing special non-recurring reports by combining confidential data from several sources and scheduling and handling administrative/secretarial needs of executive supervisor and the rest of the legal team.
Additional Information

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer
Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer Henry Ford Health System is committed to the hiring, advancement and fair treatment of all individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, size, height, weight, marital status, family status, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genetic information, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal and state laws.

 

Job Summary
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Education
High School or Equivalent
Required Experience
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