Job Description

Join the Northwood team!Northwood is currently accepting applications for a term (14 weeks) full time Organizational Health & Safety Administrator to join our team.Responsibilities:

• Provides administrative/clerical support to the Manger, People Services
• Provides administrative support for members of Organizational Health and Safety Team and Occupational Health Nurses
• Support development of a comprehensive filing system both electronically and paper format.
• Assists in maintaining databases
• Provides callers, visitors, and staff with appropriate greeting, information and assistance
• Assists in creating promotional displays
• Inputs data in databases, statistics and file management for the corporate occupational health and safety program and other projects/programs as needed
• Conducts information/literature searches for projects/programs as needed
• Compiles data for special projects and for generating corporate reports

Qualifications :

• Applicant must be entering full time post-secondary studies in the fall semester immediately following the work term OR continuing full-time post-secondary studies following the work term.
• Applicant must be a permanent resident of the province or live in Nova Scotia for at least six months prior to the work term
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office including Microsoft Access & Excel required
• Experience in OHS considered an asset
• Experience with database systems, development of filing systems, regular maintenance of filing systems and data management considered an asset
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills

Hours of Work: 80 hours bi-weeklyLocation: Northwood Corporate Office/Halifax as required. With travel to all sites when necessarySalary: As per the Northwood ScaleEffective: TBDTo learn more about Northwood please visit our websiteNorthwood is proud to be an inclusive employer that encourages diverse applicants. We thank all applicants however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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