Office Assistant - CRC 767 - AB

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Key Responsibilities:
Administrative Support: Provide clerical assistance including managing Professor Blacketts schedule and handling correspondence.
Scheduling: Organizing and coordinating appointments, meetings, and events.
Document Management: Maintaining and organizing files, documents, and office supplies, including data entry and updating records, and supporting the formatting of documents.
Office Operations: Ensuring the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory runs smoothly by managing daily operations, serving as a main administrative point of contact for Laboratory members and assisting with various administrative tasks as needed.

Required Skills and Qualifications:
Organizational Skills: Strong ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively in a fast-paced environment.
Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills for interacting with clients, staff, and management.
Language Skills: English and French.
Technical Proficiency: Familiarity with office software, such as Microsoft Office Suite, for creating documents, spreadsheets, and presentations.
Attention to Detail: Ability to maintain accuracy in tasks such as data entry and document preparation.
Problem-Solving Skills: Capability to address and resolve office-related issues efficiently.

Work Environment:
The successful candidate will be expected to work at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, principally in the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory.

Hours per week :

25 hours per week over 6 weeks during July and August 2026, then 7 hours per week through Fall 2026 and Winter 2027

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Principales responsabilites:
Assistance administrative : apporter un soutien administratif, notamment en gerer l'agenda du professeur Blackett et en traitant la correspondance.
Planification : organiser et coordonner les rendez-vous, les reunions et les evenements.
Gestion des documents : Tenir a jour et organiser les dossiers, les documents et les fournitures de bureau, y compris la saisie de donnees et la mise a jour des dossiers, et apporter un soutien a la mise en forme des documents.
Fonctionnement du bureau : Assurer le bon fonctionnement du Laboratoire de recherche sur le droit du travail et le developpement en gerer les operations quotidiennes, en servant de point de contact administratif principal pour les membres du Laboratoire et en apportant une aide pour diverses taches administratives selon les besoins.

Competences et qualifications requises :
Sens de l'organisation : grande capacite a gerer plusieurs taches simultanement et a etablir efficacement des priorites dans un environnement dynamique.
Competences en communication : excellentes aptitudes a la communication orale et ecrite pour interagir avec les clients, le personnel et la direction.
Competences linguistiques : anglais et francais.
Competences techniques : bonne maitrise des logiciels bureautiques, tels que la suite Microsoft Office, pour la creation de documents, de feuilles de calcul et de presentations.
Souci du detail : capacite a faire preuve de precision dans des taches telles que la saisie de donnees et la preparation de documents.
Capacite a resoudre les problemes : capacite a traiter et a resoudre efficacement les problemes lies au travail de bureau.

Environnement de travail:
Le candidat retenu sera base a la Faculte de droit de l'Universite McGill, principalement au sein du Laboratoire de recherche sur le droit du travail et le developpement.

Nombre d'heures hebdomadaires :

25 heures par semaine pendant 6 semaines en juillet et aout 2026, puis 7 heures par semaine pendant l'automne 2026 et l'hiver 2027.

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This position is covered by the AMUSE collective agreement.

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