Administrative Assistant (Full Time) Wilmington\Whiteville NC

North Carolina MENTOR is a partner of The MENTOR Network, a national network of local human services providers offering quality, community-based services to adults and children with intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain and spinal cord injuries and other catastrophic injuries and illnesses, and to youth with emotional, behavioral and medically complex challenges as well as their families. With opportunities from coast to coast, when you join North Carolina MENTOR and The MENTOR Network, you’ll make a difference every day and help to provide quality of life enhancing services to individuals across the country.

Every person needs the support of others, but we look for very special people to support Children and Families in crisis. As an Administrative Assistant with NC Mentor, you’ll be one of those special people.

For NC Mentor and The MENTOR Network, an Administrative Assistant is critical to our success and exemplifies the wonderful mission driven work we do here every day.

To that end, the Administrative Assistant role is a fantastic role to continue your career path in Social and Human Services with a myriad of career options to move up and across the organization.

NC Mentor is seeking an Administrative Assistant to provide administrative support to a department an/or manager, including answering telephones, handling correspondence and scheduling meetings, as well as project based work. This position may also greet visitors and route telephone calls to appropriate staff and/or provide data entry support.

1. Knowledge of current office procedures and methods including telephone communications, office systems, and record keeping.
2. Knowledge of professional business communication, including style and format of letters, memoranda, minutes, and reports.
3. Knowledge of standard bookkeeping concepts, practices, and procedures.
4. Skill to demonstrate mastery of Microsoft Word and Excel and other software packages.
5. Skill to type at least 50 words per minute.
6. Ability to establish priorities, work independently, and proceed with objectives without supervision.
7. Ability to handle and resolve recurring problems.