The Jackson Laboratory
Administrative Assistant - Research Support Services
Farmington, Connecticut
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About the role
- Join an amazing administrative team! Working under limited supervision, incumbents in this position use advanced administrative concepts, practices and procedures to support faculty and their research lab staff. Gathers, organizes, stores and supplies information; maintains files; schedules appointments, arranges meetings and special events; produces
- correspondence and documents. Acts as a liaison between assigned Staff and the Scientific Director's Office, Office of Sponsored Research Administration and other administrative areas of the institution, as well as applicable administrative areas of external organizations often serve as the first point of contact for visitors, collaborators, and job
Nice to have
- assists with on-boarding and off-boarding of employees and timekeeping for research staff
- Make travel arrangements for invited guests, prepare meeting agendas, and coordinate in-town transportation.
- Assists faculty with submission of manuscripts including providing bibliographic reference material, help with graphics and submission to PubMed for NIH required PMCIDs.
- Assists labs in ordering supplies
- facilitates purchase orders.
- Works closely with IT to solve technical issues and order replacement supplies.
- may monitor expenditure for supplies and other administrative expenses to ensure conformance with budget.
- Other duties as assigned.
Skills
- For more information, please visit www.jax.org .
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Compensation
- $22.04 - $28.65, pay determined by experience
- Pay Range (hourly):
Benefits
- Its mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.
Company info
- Founded in 1929, JAX applies over nine decades of expertise in genetics to increase understanding of human disease, advancing treatments and cures for cancer, neurological and immune disorders, diabetes, aging and heart disease.
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