Sr Administrative Assistant, Pathology

UT Southwestern Medical Center • Dallas, TX

11d • Hybrid

About The Position

Works under minimal supervision to provide advanced administrative support in coordinating day to day operations of department or division office. The responsibilities include, but are not limited to, maintaining faculty calendars, appointments and coordinating meeting schedules; handling office procurement; processing faculty travel, expense reports, and associated reimbursements; facility arrangement; taking meeting minutes. Also responsible for patient care in the area of receiving, distributing, inventory, tracking and filing slides; serving as liaison and coordination of consultation requests from outside facilities; delivery of clinical reports to HIM for upload into hospital EPIC system; communicate and follow-up with physicians to ensure patient documents are complete prior to testing. This position routinely communications with various labs to provide updates to the clinicians. Position may shift to one day work from home after training period.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED.
• 3 years of related secretarial/administrative experience.
• May consider higher education completed in lieu of minimum requirements.

Responsibilities

• Relieves supervisor of variety of administrative duties, which involve thorough understanding of functions, programs, and policies of organization; may coordinate daytoday operations of office; makes recommendations for changes to procedures.
• Prepares or assists in preparation of grant applications, grant budgets, manuscripts, book chapters, etc.; ensures proper format, grammar, and completeness.
• Functions as liaison with other departments, including Human Resources, Telecommunications, Physical Plant, Purchasing, and Accounting; prepares online and paper documents as needed.
• Completes and coordinates complex projects and reports as assigned by supervisor, which may require significant contact with other departments and outside organizations and use of various computer software applications.
• Composes and/or types letters, memorandums, and other nonroutine and moderately complex correspondence, which does not require attention of supervisor.
• Maintains sub-ledgers and ledgers for various accounts, including reviewing expenditures and encumbrances, reconciling accounts, and ensuring appropriate use of funds.
• Plans and coordinates projects, such as meetings, appointments, conferences, seminars, and workshops; arranges for meeting facilities, hotel accommodation, transportation, refreshments, luncheons, banquets, receptions, etc.; develops and arranges printing of brochures; handles finances for program, including determination of charge to sponsoring department; establishes registration fees; processes all vouchers relating to event.
• Takes, transcribes, and distributes minutes for meetings.
• May transcribe dictation of medical or scientific terminology; ensures correct format, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• PPO medical plan, available day one at no cost for full-time employee-only coverage
• 100%25 coverage for preventive healthcare-no copay
• Paid Time Off, available day one
• Retirement Programs through the Teacher Retirement System of Texas (TRS)
• Paid Parental Leave Benefit
• Wellness programs
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Qualified Employer

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees