Sr. Administrative Assistant - YLS Faculty Support

Yale Cancer Center; New Haven, Northern (CT, KY); Hybrid; USD 43,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Yale Law School is seeking a Senior Administrative Assistant to provide high-level support to faculty. You will handle correspondence, editing, course materials, travel planning, and expense reimbursements while maintaining calendars and coordinating events.

The role requires strong MS Office skills, attention to detail, confidentiality, and the ability to manage shifting priorities in a busy academic environment. On-site work with occasional evenings or weekends may apply.

Qualifications

• Advanced MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook skills.
• Excellent spelling, grammar, editing and proofreading.
• Experience coordinating travel arrangements and expense reimbursements.
• Highly organized with ability to adapt to shifting priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication with confidentiality.

Responsibilities

• Oversees and coordinates administrative, program, and office activities.
• Manages materials for grants, contracts and budgets; monitors expenditures.
• Provides editorial support and proofs material for accuracy.
• Determines needs for events and coordinates arrangements.
• Greets visitors and handles inquiries, screens mail and calls.
• Coordinates travel and meetings; orders supplies and maintains records.

Skills

MS Word

MS Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook scheduling

Editing and proofreading

Travel arrangements

Calendar management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Six years related work experience

Tools

Box

Dropbox

Adobe products

Workday

Canvas

Job description

Salary Range

$31.83

Overview

The Senior Administrative Assistant provides a high level of administrative support to Yale Law School faculty. This includes written correspondence, editing and proofreading documents including the course syllabus, assembling and posting course materials, ordering books, processing expense reimbursements, making dining arrangements and complex travel arrangements for faculty and visitors. Strong communication, research, and technical skills are required. Research and coordinate students and speakers for courses as well as coordination of library needs. Research and organize readings, musical selections, and graphics (posters/advertisements) for speakers and/or seminars. The Senior Administrative Assistant will work with Research Assistants, maintains faculty calendar, assists with scheduling, makes reservations, maintains faculty office (books, files, arrange cleaning), finds workshops, assists with social media and media requests for faculty, and maintains websites and various complicated databases. Processes, reviews, and mails clerkship letters and other recommendation letters for students on behalf of faculty. Other duties as assigned.

Hours: 8:30a – 5:00p. Occasional nights and weekends.

Required Skills and Abilities

• Advanced ability with MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook scheduling. Facility formatting material in various ways. Excellent keyboarding skills. Familiarity with cloud based, extensive electronic file storage and shared files, such as: Box, Drop Box. Familiarity with and ability to manipulate Adobe products.
• Excellent spelling, grammar, editing and proofreading skills.
• Demonstrated ability making complex travel arrangements and gathering information on various options/prices. Proven abilities processing expense reimbursements.
• Ability to be extremely well organized. Ability to adapt to shifting priorities.
• Strong communication skills - both written and verbal. Ability to maintain confidentiality.

Preferred Skills and Abilities

Experience working in a Law Office strongly preferred. Bachelors Degree. Experience with Lexis/Nexis, Westlaw. Knowledge of Legal terminology. Experience using Google Scholar. Experience in a faculty support role with multiple supervisors. Workday experience. Canvas experience. Experience making web updates and manipulating website content.

Principal Responsibilities

• Oversees and coordinates administrative, program, and office activities. Establishes, selects, implements, and coordinates office procedures and systems. Serves as principal source of information to students, staff, and faculty on policies, procedures, programs, and office activities.
• Oversees, instructs, and coordinates activities of support staff. Oversees the preparation of materials for grants, contracts and budgets. Monitors expenditures and reconciles financial statements.
• Provides editorial support for a journal/publication. Proofreads and edits material for grammatical and factual accuracy. Tracks copy through various editing and production stages. Communicates with authors, printers, and others concerned with published work.
• Determines administrative, facility, and equipment needs for symposia, lectures, seminars, and conferences. Assembles and arranges for necessary items. Determines sources of data. Compiles, synthesizes and manipulates data. Summarizes findings and writes reports or portions of reports.
• Greets visitors. Answers and screens telephone calls. Assesses nature of business. Responds to requests for information and provides assistance. Screens and responds to mail.
• Formats, keyboard, proofread, and edits correspondence, reports, manuscripts, grants, and other material. Assembles attachments and corresponding material. Reviews outgoing material for completeness, dates, and signatures. Composes substantive correspondence and written material.
• Coordinates travel arrangements. Schedules and coordinates meetings and appointments. Orders and maintains inventory of supplies. Takes minutes or dictation. Performs additional functions incidental to office activities.

Required Education and Experience

Six years of related work experience, four of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and high school level education; or four years of related work experience and an Associate's degree; or little or no work experience and a Bachelor's degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.

Original Job Posting Date

09/02/2026

Job Category

Administrative Support

Bargaining Unit

L34

Compensation Grade

Labor Grade D

Time Type

Full time

Duration Type

Staff

Work Model

On-site

Location

127 Wall Street, New Haven, Connecticut

Background Check Requirements

All candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle, DOT certification, drug testing and credit checks basedon the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of the background check. For additional information on the background check requirements and process visit "Learn about background checks" under the Applicant Support Resources section of Careers on the It's Your Yale website.

Health Requirements

Certain positions have associated health requirements based on specific job responsibilities. These may include vaccinations, tests, or examinations, as required by law, regulation, or university policy.

Posting Disclaimer

University policy is committed to affirmative action under law in employment of women, minority group members, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans. Additionally, in accordance with Yale's Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment, and as delineated by federal and Connecticut law, Yale does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual's sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, disability, status as a special disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other covered veteran.

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