Highlights
Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Technical Skills or Knowledge: Demonstrated skill and knowledge of or ability to quickly learn the internal workings of the University.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Chicago, IL |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $28–$36 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
Description
Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is the second largest private employer in Chicago. We are a multicultural, international community of more than 20,000 faculty and staff-each supporting UChicago's mission of inquiry and academic excellence. Our client is a Medical Center provides world-renowned patient care, while advancing medical science through groundbreaking research. Together, UChicago Medicine and the Biological Sciences Division are working to address the world's most pressing medical challenges.
Job Title: Administrative Assistant
Duration: 3 Months
Location: Chicago, IL 60637
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shift: Monday To Friday From 09:00 AM To 05:00 PM
Job Description:
Qualifications:
- Demonstrated ability to take initiative and work independently, while remaining in close coordination with other members of the team; comfort working within a certain level of ambiguity.
- Proactive communication and organizational skills, with proven ability to juggle competing priorities with diplomacy, tact, and goodwill.
- Demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced environment with firm deadlines.
- Familiarity with organizing and managing events.
- Curiosity and experience using AI to improve daily processes.
- Prior experience with coding languages (for example, R or Claude Code).
- Consistent in-person availability.
Technical Skills or Knowledge:
- Demonstrated skill and knowledge of or ability to quickly learn the internal workings of the University.
- Proficient in Microsoft Windows Suite, including Microsoft Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Previous experience with Asana, Slack, Google Suite, and a general willingness to utilize new tech solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Provides administrative support to an organization unit requiring broad experience, skills and knowledge of organization policies and practices.
- Performs office management and general administrative functions for assigned manager/area. Serves as first point of contact to department, providing professional assistance with the appropriate sense of urgency.
- Performs a variety of administrative duties. Supports one or more members of management and/or staff in a business or functional unit.
- Work generally requires knowledge of company and/or business/functional practices, policies, programs and/or product line. Resolves routine and non-routine inquiries.
- Administrative responsibilities include calendaring, document preparation and management, correspondence, travel arrangements, and meeting/travel coordination. Maintains confidentiality.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Similar Job Searches
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