Temporary Administrative Assistant

Familiarity with administration within a complex research university environment.

Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Excellent interpersonal and customer service skills.

Ability to handle public contacts with courtesy, clarity, and diplomacy.

Ability to handle sensitive and confidential situations and information with absolute discretion.

Ability to maintain calm and courteous demeanor and to work productively despite heavy workload, competing priorities, complex problems, and tight deadlines.

$22.00 - $32.00

The included pay rate or range represents the University’s good faith estimate of the possible compensation offer for this role at the time of posting.

This position is not eligible for benefits.

The temporary job provides confidential and high-level office and location support activities by acting as a lead and coordinating the work of others. Identifies, enhances, and applies specific processes and procedures to maximize the efficiencies of the University to which the support is being provided. May ensure the correct functioning of facilities, office and/or business support services.

Provides administrative support for ITM administrative staff.

Provides support of ITM financial transactions, tracking, and reporting.

Schedules and coordinates meetings, conferences and special events.

Prepares minutes, reports and summaries.

The University of Chicago (UC) Institute for Translational Medicine (ITM) was created in 2007 to assemble, integrate, and create the intellectual, administrative, and physical resources required to catalyze research and research training in Clinical and Translational Science. Its ultimate goals are to train scientists and health care providers at UC and in our community to determine the molecular, genetic, pathophysiologic, and social determinants of disease and disease predisposition in individuals; to test interventions directed toward those mechanisms; and to achieve these goals in a way that is rigorous, efficient, ethical, respectful of, and responsive to our community’s needs and values. Over its nine years, the ITM has capitalized on the outstanding intellectual and physical resources throughout the University and at ITM affiliate Institutions, Argonne National Laboratory, NorthShore University HealthSystem, Illinois Institute of Technology, and Access Community Health Network, and on substantial institutional and CTSA financial investments, to build the infrastructure for a transformative, energized, and self-improving home for clinical and translational research, ensuring the continued progress of clinical and translational science at the University of Chicago, its affiliates, on the South Side of Chicago, and beyond.