Senior Administrative Specialist
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Syracuse, NYJob$23.49–36.23/hrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
Coordinates office and secretarial support functions for a department, office, or major organizational sub-unit. The role supports exempt staff with activities such as recruiting and training, budget preparation, and data analysis. It is responsible for efficient administrative operations, interpreting office policies and procedures, preparing reports with recommendations, and usually supervising support staff.
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Job Summary:
Position Summary: Coordinate all office and secretarial support functions of a department, office or major organizational sub-unit. Often assists exempt staff in areas such as recruiting and training, budget preparation, and data analysis.
Accountabilities : Responsible for efficient operation of all administrative/secretarial support functions, issues and interprets office operating policies and procedures, and prepares reports including conclusions and recommendations for solutions to administrative problems. In some cases may also have responsibility for overseeing office or department technical support, although this is not a necessary component of the position. Usually supervises support staff.
Minimum Qualifications:
Education & Experience : Associates Degree or pertinent college level courses and 4 years administrative/office management experience including supervisory experience.
Skills: Proficient in a variety of office software and spreadsheets. If duties require, may need advanced computer application and software knowledge. Able to work independently.
Will consider equivalent combination of education and experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
Work Days:
M-F 8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Message to Applicants:
G5: $23.49 - $36.23
Please note the salary information shown is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as internal equity, market and business considerations.
Recruitment Office: MedBest Medical Management
How this job compares
Set against the 5,220 open Administrative Support jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$23.49–36.23/hr
- New York median$19–27/hr315 hourly ranges
- US median$19–27/hr1,838 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $29.86/hr, is 39% above the New York median midpoint ($22/hr) — in the top quarter of Administrative Support hourly ranges in New York.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 530 open Administrative Support jobs in New York and 5,220 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in New York
- H&R Block72 open
- City of New York24 open
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience — more than three in four Administrative Support postings that state a minimum ask for (median 2 years, across 2,034 postings).
- Education
- 142 of the 5,220 open Administrative Support jobs (3%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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