Staff Assistant Level 9 - Hybrid

School of Medicine

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Job Description:

Staff Assistant to multiple faculty members within the Division of Infectious Diseases with various high impact needs within the division. Provide clinical support, high level calendar support, travel planning and reimbursements, maintain CVs, CME credits, etc. Ability to multitask is essential to supporting various physicians and multiple needs at one time.

Calendar: Scheduling of meetings, conferences, media and other speaking engagements, travel, research activities, clinical schedules.  Transplant Huddle meetings, CRU Lunch meetings, TP case Conference, TP Faculty Meetings, etc.

Travel arrangements for both foreign and domestic travel, coordinating out of town meetings, conferences, arranging hotels, preparing travel reimbursements, personal expense reports and third-party expenses. Use of Concur to process procurement card and out of pocket expenses processed.

Patient appointment scheduling, managing patient calls, faxing prescription refills, routing calls for patients needs to the appropriate places. Communicating with patients when needed at physician direction. Maestro/Epic access and experience is preferred.

Administrative: Manage very busy schedules for faculty members who are engaged in high level activities within and outside of Duke. Manage CVs for faculty members, manuscript preparations, screen callers for appropriate needs and maintain divisional and department policies. Ensure that all assignments are completed in a timely manner and accurately.

Administrative support of the Transplant T32 grant under the direction of Dr. Barbara Alexander. Organize and support yearly T32 symposium, applicants for T32 during recruitment and ensure that selected fellows are on task with their yearly T32 metrics. Assist in renewal and progress reports that are submitted by grants administration team.

Completion and submission of Transplant Timesheets.

Oversight of faculty discretionary spending accounts. Monitor for accurate charges, update faculty with balances and assure that correct charges are placed on accounts.

Minimum Qualifications

Work requires a broad knowledge of clerical and accounting principles and practices normally acquired through two years of post-secondary education in administrative support or a related business field.

Work generally requires four years of related secretarial/clerical OR AN EQUIVALENT COMBINATION OF RELEVANT EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE experience to acquire skills necessary to administer complex office functions related to office management, communications, and budgetary/accounting activities.

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