Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
· Provide extensive operational support to the Executive Director in busy work environment, including, but not limited to: scheduling, correspondence, arranging travel, and other clerical support for the Center's staff, such as contact database management and coordination of mailings.
· Assisting with Center event logistics and planning, including staffing both daytime and evening events.

Qualifications:

Ideal Candidate will have the following qualifications:
· A minimum of 1 year administrative experience in a corporate or nonprofit office environment. Familiarity with higher education/university work environments preferred.
· Excellent interpersonal, multitasking, and organizational skills.
· Attention to detail.
· Be self-motivated, proactive, and have strong follow-through skills.
· Experience and interest in helping run day-to-day program operations of an office; familiarity with ordering supplies, database management, filing systems, etc.
· Computer skills including Word, Excel, Access, and web-based tools and databases.
· Proficiency in a foreign language ideal but not required.
· Strong personal and professional writing skills.
· B.A. in international relations, history, or a related field, preferred, but not necessary.

When you come to work at New York University, it's more than just a job that awaits you. You have the opportunity to Experience Excellence.

You are joining an exciting intellectual and cultural community, one where employees - faculty and staff - come together to create a unique product: excellence in education and research. You are part of a diverse, multi-cultural and creative institution, one with a world-wide reputation as a leader in higher education. NYU is the largest private university in the United States, with 12,000 faculty and staff from all over the world and 40,000 students from all 50 states and more than 120 foreign countries. NYU offers opportunities to have an impact on a truly global level.

To add to the stimulating environment, NYU is centered in Greenwich Village - a legendary urban neighborhood, rich in cultural offerings and with a delightful small town character quite unlike any other. Employees have the experience of working in a small town inside a big town, with the best that both have to offer.

To apply, please send cover letter, resume, and references to: CLS@exchange.law.nyu.edu, with "Executive Assistant" in the subject line.

No phone calls/faxes.

NYU is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

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