Description:
The Department of Municipal Relations works with municipal partners to build strong and healthy communities. This includes building municipal capacity; supporting municipal core operations, infrastructure, and community development initiatives; supporting community planning and development; and strengthening collaboration and shared solutions with municipalities.
Conditions of Employment:
- Must be legally entitled to work in Canada
Qualifications:
Essential:
- Experience providing administrative support to leadership, in a fast-paced office environment.
- Experience providing reception duties including screening and directing calls, monitoring general/management email inboxes, and responding to general information requests by email, phone and in-person.
- Experience with Microsoft Office including: Word, Outlook, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Experience creating and maintaining physical and electronic files, file management, tracking systems, and databases.
- Strong time management skills to prioritize workload and work under pressure in a rapidly changing environment.
- Strong verbal communication skills to enable effective and appropriate communication with internal and external stakeholders.
- Strong written communication skill to draft and edit agendas, meeting minutes, other correspondence and authority seeking documents.
- Strong interpersonal skills to work effectively and build relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to take initiative and work independently with minimal supervision.
- Experience in attendance tracking and time keeping.