Job Responsibilities

• Analyse, manage and monitor a large and diversified volume of complex correspondence and documentation, often of confidential and sensitive nature; ensure appropriate routing, reply, prioritization, accuracy, consistency, informal translation and timeliness; bring complex, sensitive or priority issues to the supervisor’s attention.
• Provide information and guidance to staff at all levels within the organizational unit; ensure understanding of intent and deadlines.
• Arrange appointments and duty travels, maintain supervisor’s calendar and receive visitors.
• Organize high-level meetings, finalize agendas and invitations, ensure the production and distribution of documentation, take notes and prepare minutes, and follow up on required actions.
• Organize and coordinate the work performed by other office support staff; coordinate activities across the division, including divisional issues, deadlines and other requests.
• Establish internal procedures and tracking systems for correspondence and documents; verify that work is done in accordance with corporate standards; monitor work progress.
• Respond to written inquiries and draft responses to non-routine questions; coordinate responses to sensitive enquiries on behalf of the supervisor.
• Follow up on the preparation of reports, correspondence, briefing notes and other documents; review documents and make changes to their format or style in accordance with standard practices; conduct research and prepare briefing materials for the supervisor; provide informal translations into another official language.
• Evaluate ongoing support requirements of the office, adapt service provision to meet changing needs and solve operational problems, as required.
• Ensure the initiation of a variety of transactions in the Organization’s computerized administrative systems.
• Perform other duties as required.