Performs administrative duties for an individual, group, or department. Performs general tasks and completes routine assignments. Receives assistance in the completion of more complex assignments. Works under moderate supervision with some latitude for independent judgment. May make contacts of a sensitive, complex, and confidential nature.
Key Responsibilities and Essential Functions
- Answers and transfers phone calls
- Manage schedules, arrange appointments and itineraries
- Coordinate meetings, travel, conference calls, and complete expense reports
- Create and edit documents, spreadsheets and presentations
- Prepare reports, meeting minutes and correspondence.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- High School Diploma
- 2+ years of experience
- Communication skills
- Organization skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Computer skills
Education Required: High School Diploma or GED
Education Preferred: High School Diploma or GED
Experience Required: 2 years
Experience Preferred: 2 years
COVER LETTER REQUIRED
Pay Range (hourly): $21.60 - $28.09
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About JAX:
The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution with a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center and nearly 3,000 employees in locations across the United States (Maine, Connecticut, California), Japan and China. Its mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.
Founded in 1929, JAX applies over nine decades of expertise in genetics to increase understanding of human disease, advancing treatments and cures for cancer, neurological and immune disorders, diabetes, aging and heart disease. It models and interprets genomic complexity, integrates basic research with clinical application, educates current and future scientists, and provides critical data, tools and services to the global biomedical community. For more information, please visit www.jax.org.
EEO Statement:
The Jackson Laboratory provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment in all job classifications without regard to race, color, religion, age, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, gender, sexual orientation, genetic information, ancestry, marital status, national origin, veteran status, and other classifications protected by applicable state and local non-discrimination laws.
What We Do
Cancer. Diabetes. Alzheimer’s. Heart Disease. Parkinson’s.
The Jackson Laboratory (JAX) leads the search to cure diseases rooted in our DNA.
Founded in 1929, we are an NCI-designated Cancer Center since 1983 and an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit research organization with over 90 years of experience in genetics and genomics research. JAX blends the brightest minds with state-of-the-art resources to accelerate discovery.
Areas of Discovery (75+ Principal Investigators, >250 Ph.D.s, M.D.s, and D.V.M.s):
• Cancer: We are a National Cancer Institute designated Cancer Center focusing on cancer initiation, progression, prevention and therapies.
• Developmental/reproductive biology: birth defects, Down syndrome, osteoporosis, fertility
• Immunology: HIV-AIDS, anemia, autoimmunity, cancer immunology, immune disorders, lupus, transplant rejection
• Metabolic diseases: atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, microbiome
• Neurobiology: blindness, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, deafness, epilepsy, glaucoma, macular degeneration, neurodegenerative diseases
• Neurobehavioral disorders: autism, addiction, depression
Supporting Global Research:
• The JAX Mouse Repository and Scientific Services are among the premier resources available for biomedical research.
Committed to Education:
• Summer Student Program (undergrad & high school)
• Teaching the Genome Generation Short Course
• Ph.D. programs: U. Maine, Tufts University and U. Connecticut
• Courses, Conferences and Workshops
