Administrative Assistant, Faculty of Business Administration, Competition # COPE-22-30, Thunder Bay, ON
Overview
*INTERNAL*
Administrative Assistant
Faculty of Business Administration
COPE, Level 8
Full Time, Temporary
Competition # COPE-22-30
Under general supervision, the successful candidate will report to the Dean, Faculty of Business Administration and provide administrative support to the Faculty. The following is a brief outline of the responsibilities.
DUTIES:
• Provide administrative support to the Dean and Program Chairs in the Faculty of
Business Administration;
• Compose, edit, and proofread correspondence, memos, minutes, and other documentation;
• Manage the Dean’s calendar including scheduling meetings;
• Track attendance records for employees that report to the Dean;
• Process invoices, cheque requisitions, credit card statements, and budget transfers;
• Provide administrative support for academic matters such as appeals, academic
integrity investigations, change of mark, and registration or enrolment management;
• Maintain the departmental filing systems;
• Organize meetings and special events including booking venues etc.;
• Manage distribution of course evaluations, promotion, tenure and renewal documents and
assist with the accreditation process, and undergraduate and graduate program reviews;
• Provide administrative support for faculty members, contracts lecturers, and other staff of
the Faculty;
• Provide support to students of the Faculty programs and respond to student inquiries;
• Maintain the Faculty of Business Administration website and social media accounts;
• Other duties as required.
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Post-secondary education, preferably in Business or Office Administration, coupled with a
minimum of three years’ experience in an administrative assistant position;
• Knowledge of Lakehead University's and the Faculty of Business Administration's
academic policies and procedures, programs and services would be an asset;
• Demonstrated proficiency with computers and software programs including Microsoft Office,
D2L, Adobe Acrobat, Colleague/Datatel systems;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills,
• Demonstrated ability to multi task, coordinate multiple projects and tasks simultaneously
and effectively with competing deadlines;
• Demonstrated ability initiative, tact and good judgement;
• Ability to work independently and effectively without direct or ongoing supervision;
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Excellent administrative skills to ensure efficiency and effectiveness;
• Demonstrated ability to multitask a variety of high priority duties and work under the pressure
of deadlines;
• Demonstrated ability to work and handle all office duties and communications in a confidential
and diplomatic manner;
• Ability to work both collaboratively and independently;
• Ability to work efficiently and effectively in an environment subject to frequent interruptions
and high volume of activity, particularly at peak times in the academic cycle;
• Aptitude for quick learning of new educational technologies and applications
Interested INTERNAL applicants may apply by clicking on this link to a Google Form and attaching your cover
letter and resume in word or PDF format by October 21, 2022.
If you have any technical difficulties in accessing the link, please reach out to careers@lakeheadu.ca.
We appreciate your interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be notified.
Lakehead University is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals including women, racialized persons, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities and other equity-seeking groups. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. This is in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements.
Lakehead University is committed to supporting an accessible environment. Applicants requiring accommodation during the interview process should contact the Office of Human Resources at (807) 343.8334 or human.resources@lakeheadu.ca to make appropriate arrangements.
Lakehead University to host CCSBE Conference October 28-30
Lakehead University's Faculty of Business Administration is pleased to host the Canadian Council of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (CCSBE) Conference this year. The conference will be held virtually October 28-30, 2022.
This year's conference theme, Entrepreneurship, SMEs, and Sustainable Development, echoes the shared imperative of innovation in public, private, and social sectors upon the prominent and inter-related challenges in environmental, societal, and economic domains around the globe.
This conference focuses on diverse and inclusive approaches to advancing entrepreneurship and driving economic and social recovery across sectors and countries and adopts a comparative and international perspective in addressing topics related to entrepreneurship and innovation.
This year's conference theme focuses on the importance of inclusion in engaging organizations and individuals of diverse nature for their input and participation. Researchers, educators, entrepreneurs, administrators, students, policy makers and all interested in advancing entrepreneurship and small business will participate.
Keynote speakers include:
- Honourable Mary Ng, Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion and International Trade of Canada
- Rosalind Lockyer, Founder & CEO, PARO Centre for Women's Enterprise
- Jason Thompson, President of Superior Strategies Inc and Warrior Engineering Ltd.
- Wendy Cukier, Professor, Toronto Metropolitan University
- Gregor Sneddon, Executive Director, HelpAge Canada
- Heatherjean MacNeil, Entrepreneur and Visiting Faculty, Northeastern University
- Allyson Hewitt, President & CEO, Enactus Canada
- Kelly Lendsay, President & CEO, Indigenous Works and Founder and CEO, LUMINARY
- Sophie Bacq, Larry and Barbara Sharpf Professor of Entrepreneurship, Indiana University
- Jay Krishnan, CEO, the Accelerator Centre (Waterloo)
- Wendy Timpano, General Manager, Orillia Area Community Development Corp.
- Adam Straker, Program Manager, Future of Cities, Communitech
Lakehead University partners with Rennes School of Business to offer an international dual degree program
July 04, 2022 – Thunder Bay and Orillia, Ont.
The Faculty of Business Administration at Lakehead University in Canada has partnered with the Rennes School of Business in France to offer a unique international learning opportunity for students at both institutions.
Participating students from Lakehead who complete the International Dual Degree Program will earn two degrees in four years (one from Lakehead and one from Rennes).
Lakehead students will go on a year-long exchange in third year before returning to Lakehead to complete their studies. Upon graduation, they will receive both an Honours Bachelor of Commerce from Lakehead and a Bachelor in Management from Rennes School of Business.
Students who come from Rennes to Lakehead in their third year will earn a Bachelor of Administration from Lakehead before returning to France to earn the Bachelor in Management from Rennes.
This program will provide an opportunity for students to develop international connections and global skills while earning two degrees.
“Our collaboration with Rennes will allow us to strengthen our international partnerships and support our goal of developing cultural competencies and global skills necessary for the future,” said James Aldridge, Lakehead’s Vice-Provost, International.
“I am delighted with this collaboration which allows us to propose an alliance between Canada and Ontario on the one hand, and France and the region of Brittany on the other,” said Thomas Froehlicher, Director General and Dean of Rennes School of Business. “It is also a great achievement to structure an excellent academic relationship at an undergraduate level with Lakehead University.”
Students participating in the program from Lakehead University can apply directly from high school and be admitted to their first year of the International Dual Degree program, or transfer into the program prior to third year from another Lakehead’s business degree program (subject to available spaces).
“We are very excited to offer this new opportunity to all current and future Lakehead students, and to welcome students from Rennes to Lakehead University,” said Dr. David Richards, Dean of Lakehead’s Faculty of Business Administration.
“This first-of-its-kind program at Lakehead will provide a rich learning experience for our students,” Dr. Richards added.
Lakehead University’s Faculty of Business Administration is AACSB and CPA accredited, while the Rennes School of Business is accredited by AACSB, EQUIS, and AMBA.
For more information about the program: www.lakeheadu.ca/internationaldualdegree.
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Media: For more information or interviews, please contact Jaclyn Bucik, Media Communications and Marketing Associate, at 705-330-4010 ext. 2014 or mediarelations@lakeheadu.ca.
Lakehead University is a fully comprehensive university with approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and over 2,000 faculty and staff at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead has nine faculties, including Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Graduate Studies, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Law, Natural Resources Management, Science & Environmental Studies, and Social Sciences & Humanities. Lakehead University’s achievements have been recognized nationally and internationally, including being ranked, once again, among Canada’s Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities in Maclean’s 2021 University Rankings; as well as included in the top half of Times Higher Education's 2022 World Universities Rankings for the third consecutive year, and the number one university in the world with fewer than 10,000 students in THE’s 2022 Impact Rankings (which assesses institutions against the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals). Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.
Dr. Mirit Grabarski - Recipient of the 2022 HRRI Best Dissertation Award
Dr. Mirit Grabarski, Assistant Professor of Human Resources and Organizational Behaviour in the Faculty of Business Administration, was awarded the Best PhD Dissertation in HR Award from the Human Resources Research Institute (HRRI).
This award is granted to one recent PhD graduate from a Canadian PhD program in recognition of excellent research in the field of human resources.
Dr. Grabarski graduated from the Ivey School of Business at Western in 2021 before joining Lakehead University in August. In her dissertation she studied career empowerment, which embodies motivation for career-related behaviours. The dissertation is a multi-study project that employs mixed research methods to build the construct of career empowerment, create and validate a measure for it, and finally test its ability to predict a wide range of career-related variables such as objective and subjective career success.
Lakehead researcher leading team examining challenges of diverse care workers during the pandemic
Lakehead University’s Dr. Kathy Sanderson is leading a Canadian team of researchers examining the diversity and vulnerability of care workers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Dr. Sanderson’s research project is one component of a larger project exploring the work of diverse care workers in Finland, Canada, United Kingdom, and South Africa.
This research is part of a successful Trans-Atlantic Platform in the Social Sciences and Humanities application, under the theme of Recovery, Renewal and Resilience. Her project is entitled “En Route to Recovery: Diversity and Vulnerability in Care Work During and After the COVID-19 Pandemic.”
Researchers will describe how diverse people (women, LGBTI2S people, and migrant status or minority ethnic people) who work in precarious formal and informal care address challenges by collaboratively examining their ideas to ease risks and to deliver and receive care.
The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada is awarding Dr. Sanderson, Assistant Professor in Lakehead’s Faculty of Business Administration, and her team with $200,000 to perform this important research over 30 months.
Dr. Sanderson and her team are thrilled to receive this funding, which will explore the workplace and personal stressors experienced by Ontario’s personal support workers (PSWs).
“Those in COVID-facing positions have continued to provide care to the most vulnerable in our society,” Dr. Sanderson said.
“PSWs in our province experience low pay and precarious employment, coupled with extremely demanding physical and emotional work. This research project will explore policy and support opportunities for reducing the risks to care workers worldwide.”
The team will interview 20 PSWs in Ontario to explore their realities throughout the pandemic, focusing on those who are providing services within clients' homes.
“Data collection for the project will occur over the next two years, during which we will continue to engage with the PSWs to document their experiences,” Dr. Sanderson said.
Across the four countries, PSWs will participate in virtual activities to share their views and make recommendations to improve the working conditions for care workers.
“Our research is based on the United Nations’ research recovery roadmap, focusing on reducing inequalities and vulnerabilities, and building a resilient, inclusive, and sustainable society. The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented strains on formal and informal care work, worldwide,” Dr. Sanderson said.
“Paradoxically, the pandemic created new jobs and possibilities in care work, but the jobs remain physically and mentally strenuous, low paid, and often with fixed-term, precarious contracts and high turnover rates,” she added.
This project will focus on employees performing vital COVID-19 related jobs, providing individual care to vulnerable clients in both organizational and home settings.
“Congratulations to Dr. Sanderson for being awarded this grant and thanks to SSHRC for funding this important work,” said Dr. Andrew P. Dean, Lakehead’s Vice-President, Research and Innovation.
“Having a voice from COVID-care providers in Northwestern Ontario will provide an important and unique perspective on this global research project.”
Dr. Irfan Butt from Ryerson University’s School of Business Management is also a partner on the project.
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Media: For more information or interviews, please contact Brandon Walker, Media, Communications and Marketing Associate, at (807) 343-8110 ext. 8372 or mediarelations@lakeheadu.ca.
Lakehead University is a fully comprehensive university with approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and over 2,000 faculty and staff at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead has nine faculties, including Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Graduate Studies, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Law, Natural Resources Management, Science & Environmental Studies, and Social Sciences & Humanities. Lakehead University’s achievements have been recognized nationally and internationally, including being ranked, once again, among Canada’s Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities in Maclean’s 2021 University Rankings; as well as included in the top half of Times Higher Education's 2022 World Universities Rankings for the third consecutive year, and in the top 100 of 1,115 universities from around the world in THE's 2021 Impact Rankings (which assesses institutions against the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals). Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.
Part-time MBA available online
The Faculty of Business Administration continues to make the online classroom a dedicated option for part-time MBA students. While the shift to virtual learning over the past couple of years has been a challenge for some, it has been unanimously supported by all current part-time MBA students. The students have embraced the ability to attend class from home, as it has allowed them to better balance their work and family lives. In addition, the change allows alumni and staff located in the Orillia area and throughout Canada the opportunity to pursue their MBA with Lakehead.
For more information about Lakehead's MBA program, please visit mba.lakeheadu.ca or email colin.kutchyera@lakeheadu.ca.
Administrative Assistant, Faculty of Business Administration, Competition # COPE-21-16, Thunder Bay, ON
Overview
*INTERNAL*
Administrative Assistant
Faculty of Business Administration
COPE, Level 8
Full Time, Permanent
Competition # COPE-21-16
Under general supervision, the successful candidate will report to the Dean, Faculty of Business Administration and provide administrative support to the Faculty. The following is a brief outline of the responsibilities.
DUTIES:
• Provide administrative support to the Dean and Program Chairs in the Faculty of
Business Administration;
• Compose, edit, and proofread correspondence, memos, minutes, and other documentation;
• Manage the Dean’s calendar including scheduling meetings;
• Track attendance records for employees that report to the Dean;
• Process invoices, cheque requisitions, credit card statements, and budget transfers;
• Provide administrative support for academic matters such as appeals, academic
integrity investigations, change of mark, and registration or enrolment management;
• Maintain the departmental filing systems;
• Organize meetings and special events including booking venues etc.;
• Manage distribution of course evaluations, promotion, tenure and renewal documents and
assist with the accreditation process, and undergraduate and graduate program reviews;
• Provide administrative support for faculty members, contracts lecturers, and other staff of
the Faculty;
• Provide support to students of the Faculty programs and respond to student inquiries;
• Maintain the Faculty of Business Administration website and social media accounts;
• Other duties as required.
QUALIFICATIONS:
• Post-secondary education, preferably in Business or Office Administration, coupled with a
minimum of three years’ experience in an administrative assistant position;
• Knowledge of Lakehead University's and the Faculty of Business Administration's
academic policies and procedures, programs and services would be an asset;
• Demonstrated proficiency with computers and software programs including Microsoft Office,
D2L, Adobe Acrobat, Colleague/Datatel systems;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills,
• Demonstrated ability to multi task, coordinate multiple projects and tasks simultaneously
and effectively with competing deadlines;
• Demonstrated ability initiative, tact and good judgement;
• Ability to work independently and effectively without direct or ongoing supervision;
• Ability to work independently as well as in a team environment.
• Excellent administrative skills to ensure efficiency and effectiveness;
• Demonstrated ability to multitask a variety of high priority duties and work under the pressure
of deadlines;
• Demonstrated ability to work and handle all office duties and communications in a confidential
and diplomatic manner;
• Ability to work both collaboratively and independently;
• Ability to work efficiently and effectively in an environment subject to frequent interruptions
and high volume of activity, particularly at peak times in the academic cycle;
• Aptitude for quick learning of new educational technologies and applications
Interested applicants are invited to submit a single PDF document quoting competition # COPE-21-16, containing a cover letter, resume and the contact information of three professional references by 4:30 p.m. on October 15, 2021 to:
Office of Human Resources
Email: careers@lakeheadu.ca
We appreciate your interest; however, only those selected for an interview will be notified.
Lakehead University is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment and welcomes applications from all qualified individuals including women, racialized persons, Indigenous people, persons with disabilities and other equity-seeking groups. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority. This is in accordance with Canadian immigration requirements.
Lakehead University is committed to supporting an accessible environment. Applicants requiring accommodation during the interview process should contact the Office of Human Resources at (807) 343.8334 or human.resources@lakeheadu.ca to make appropriate arrangements.
Dr. Mirit Grabarski
Lakehead University’s Faculty of Business Administration granted extension of AACSB accreditation
Lakehead University’s Faculty of Business Administration has had its AACSB accreditation extended for five years and it now includes both the Orillia and Thunder Bay campuses.
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business peer review team met with faculty, staff, students, and alumni in mid-March to conduct this intense peer-review process. Several aspects of the Faculty of Business of Administration’s degree programs were assessed, including pedagogic strategies, program quality, learning outcomes, and student success.
“I would like to thank all faculty members, staff, students and others who supported these efforts,” said Dr. David Richards, Dean of the Faculty of Business Administration.
Accreditation with AACSB International (AACSB) indicates that students receive a high-quality business education from an institution that values excellence, innovation and continuous improvement.
“AACSB accreditation is an incredible achievement by our Faculty and a recognition of the exceptional experience that students can expect when pursuing a business degree at Lakehead University,” said Dr. David Barnett, Provost and Vice-President (Academic).
For more than a century, AACSB accreditation has been synonymous with the highest standards in business education. Today, a total of 901 institutions across 58 countries and territories have earned AACSB accreditation in business.
“AACSB congratulates each institution on their achievement,” said Stephanie M. Bryant, executive vice-president and chief accreditation officer of AACSB.
“Every AACSB-accredited school has demonstrated a focus on excellence in all areas, including teaching, research, curricula development, and student learning. The intense peer-review process exemplifies their commitment to quality business education.”
For more information on Lakehead University’s accreditation extension, read the AACSB June 28, 2021 Schools Renewing AACSB Accreditation press release here.
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Media: For more information or interviews, please contact Brandon Walker, Media, Communications and Marketing Associate, at (807) 343-8177 or mediarelations@lakeheadu.ca.
Lakehead University is a fully comprehensive university with approximately 9,700 full-time equivalent students and over 2,000 faculty and staff at two campuses in Orillia and Thunder Bay, Ontario. Lakehead has 10 faculties, including Business Administration, Education, Engineering, Graduate Studies, Health & Behavioural Sciences, Law, Natural Resources Management, the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, Science & Environmental Studies, and Social Sciences & Humanities. Lakehead University’s achievements have been recognized nationally and internationally, including being ranked, once again, among Canada’s Top 10 primarily undergraduate universities in Maclean’s 2021 University Rankings; as well as included in the top half of Times Higher Education's 2020 World Universities Rankings for the second consecutive year, and 99th among 1,115 universities from around the world in THE's 2021 Impact Rankings (which assesses institutions against the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals). Visit www.lakeheadu.ca.
