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Administrative Assistant - Limited Term

@ Ontario Tech University
Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
$58k/yrOnsiteTemporary
Responsibilities:providing administrative, coordinating travel, managing communications
Requirements Summary:Administrative support experience; strong MS Office skills; confidentiality; calendar/travel coordination; ASANA experience is a plus.
Technical Tools Mentioned:Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Outlook, Banner/FAST
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Administrative Assistant - Limited Term

Tracking Code: req2010

Faculty/Department: Office of VP, Administration

Number of Positions: 1

Appointment Type: Limited Term 1 year

Hours of Work: 35 hours per week 

Salary Range: Level 5 - Starting Salary, Step 1 $58,055

Posting Date: April 20, 2026

Closing Date: April 24, 2026 (7:00 pm EST)

Job Summary:
This position reports to the Director, Ancillary Services in
the Office of Ancillary Services, and provides support for activities across
all units within the Ancillary Services portfolio.

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Administrative Support to Ancillary Services
  • Provide
    administrative support to Ancillary Services Director
  • Monitor
    and manage the Director’s email and calendar, exercising sound judgment to
    triage, prioritize, and respond to communications as appropriate
  • Ensures
    urgent matters are escalated promptly, schedules are optimized, and all
    correspondence is handled with a high degree of professionalism and strict
    confidentiality
  • First
    point of contact for guests, staff, and visitors
  • Responsible
    for coordination of departmental travel arrangements, including managing
    registrations, accommodation arrangements, and preparations of
    itineraries
  • Edit
    correspondence, reports, and other correspondence
  • Assist
    in setting agendas for meetings; preparing materials for meetings,
    briefing notes, reports, refreshments, equipment, etc., takes and
    distributes minutes, and follows up on action items
  • Order
    and maintain an inventory of office supplies
  • Sort
    and deliver incoming mail
  • Process,
    code, and reconcile expenditures/invoices on specific accounts.
  • Monitor
    ongoing expenditures and the status of budgets
  • Prepare
    expense accounts for Director / Managers and reconcile monthly purchasing
    card statements
  • Prepare
    cheque requisitions, billing requests, and purchase orders
  • Creating/updating
    various manuals, rate sheets, and booklets, able to create and develop
    presentations and spreadsheets
  • Manage
    and coordinate projects and tasks within Asana for the Ancillary team
  • Track
    payments and monitor expiry dates for lease and vending agreements
  • Organize
    commission reports for all vending agreements
  • Prepare
    and report monthly campus store KPI data to support performance tracking
  • Manage
    and update the Business Continuity Plan (BCP), and onboarding lists for
    all new employees, on an ad hoc basis
  • Works
    collaboratively and coordinates administrative work with other
    administrative team members in Finance
  • Manages
    and maintains the department’s cloud-based filing systems, ensuring
    documents are accurately organized, up to date, and easily accessible;
  • Establishes and enforces consistent naming conventions and filing
    protocols to support efficiency, version control, and information security

Website Support:

  • Responsible
    for updating and ensuring all forms and content on the Ancillary Services
    Website
  • Provides
    suggestions for website content and changes within the site
  • Updates
    website information within the Content Management System including testing
    and replacing broken links, developing, and submitting new pages, updating
    information to correspond with the Ontario Tech branding and research
    sites for new website pictures

Document Management:

  • Assists
    with Record and Document Management function for Director, Ancillary
    Services, maintains and coordinates retention of documents

Other Administrative Support:

  • Report
    all vacation/sick days for all members of the Ancillary team and maintain
    team calendar
  • Work
    with staff members to arrange access to various locations and platforms,
    i.e., Concur Profile, key requests, access cards, etc.
  • Assist
    with the recruitment of staff by creating the job requisition request,
    organizing candidate files, communicating with candidates, scheduling
    interviews, organizing interview committees for reviews, and coordinating
    the process with Human Resources
  • Other
    duties as assigned

Required Skills:

  • Advanced
    computer skills with solid working knowledge of MS Word, MS PowerPoint, MS
    Excel, and MS Outlook
  • Experience
    in database maintenance and producing reports and statistics
  • Superior
    organizational and time management skills and the ability to work well
    under pressure
  • Demonstrated
    ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality
  • Works
    well in a team environment
  • Excellent
    communication and interpersonal skills, diplomacy, and tact, professional
    and courteous
  • Knowledgeable
    in Banner/FAST (finance and web requisitioning) is an asset
  • Thorough
    knowledge of university programs, systems, policies, procedures,
    governance, and administrative activities is a definite asset

Required Education:

  • Completion of a formal post-secondary program of two years minimum
  • A combination of education and experience may be considered for this role

Required Experience:

  • The
    incumbent must possess the following minimum of 1-3 years experience as an
    administrative assistant, within a similar environment

How to Apply:

Interested candidates should submit in electronic format a covering letter and their resume. Applications will be accepted until April 24, 2026 or until a suitable candidate is found. We appreciate all applications received; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

This position falls within the bargaining unit represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) and will be subject to the terms and conditions of the collective agreement between the university and the OPSEU. To the extent that policies are not included in the collective agreement, employment will also be governed by the university’s policies which may also be found on our website https://ontariotechu.ca and which may be amended from time-to-time.

Ontario
Tech University is actively committed to equity, diversity, inclusion, indigenization
and decolonization (EDIID), and welcomes applications from all qualified
candidates, while especially encouraging applications from First Nations,
Metis, Inuit peoples, Indigenous peoples of North America, racialized persons,
persons with disabilities, and those who identify as women and/or
2SLGBTQ+. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply;
however, Canadian citizens, permanent residents, Indigenous Peoples in Canada, and those eligible to work in
Canada, will be given priority.

Ontario Tech University respects people's different needs and therefore will take all reasonable steps to ensure accommodation for applicants where appropriate. The University is also committed to ensuring that confidentiality is maintained throughout all aspects of the recruitment cycle.

If you require accommodation, please contact Julie Day, Health and Disability Management Specialist. For more information about the universities policies for accommodating employees with disabilities please review the university’s Accessibility Policy

The university acknowledges the lands and people of the Mississaugas of Scugog Island First Nation which is covered under the Williams Treaties. We are situated on the Traditional Territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation which includes Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi.

Job Location: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada

Expected Start Date: 5/18/2026

Expected End Date: 4/18/2027