Iletha L. Grant

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Houston, TX ***53

Tel: 832-***-**** acymjd@r.postjobfree.com

Experienced individual offering senior level administrative support, paralegal, and team building experience that will maximize your core success.

Professional Experience:

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Sr. Administrative Assistant (July 2012-present), Department of Breast Surgical Oncology

Provide administrative support to the Departmental Administrator and one clinical faculty which includes but not limited to travel preparation, reimbursements, CV updates, and meeting requests.

Prepare grant applications, including but not limited to gathering and/or creating of biosketches, other support and budgets for grant proposals and sponsored agreements using the Coeus system.

Submit new and renewals of animal protocols (IACUC) and institutional biosafety (IBC) requests online.

Process travel requests and reimbursement using the Concur system and host paid travel reimbursement forms.

Provide assistance with manuscript preparation to ensure the proper journal format, Endnotes, and submission via journal online system.

Schedule and maintain calendars for faculty and departmental conferences

Reconcile financial budget expenses on a monthly basis for the departmental funds.

Keep track of Radioactive Seed yearly compliance for faculty

Scheduling interviews for outgoing and incoming residence for then Residency Program

Organize and plan the Breast Case Review Conference weekly.

Oversee financial tracking of multiple accounts for my faculty to ensure accuracy

Assist in preparing Breast Surgical Oncology Breast Education Conference which includes creating a monthly schedules for speakers, sending out the flyer via email and ensuring that their presentations and received.

Oversee the Joint Plastics & Reconstructive and Breast Surgical Oncology meetings which are held monthly.

Coordinate site visits for MD Andersons Regional Car Centers throughout the city.

Responsible for new hire recruited RCC Breast Surgeons onboarding schedule for the first three months with the institution to ensure that they shadow the right faculty in their specialty.

Making sure that new faculty has the proper building access when they are hired.

Manage policy and procedures for the department and ensure that they are being met as outlined by the institution.

Managed and ordered supplies for the department. Make sure all departmental operational functions are in order on a daily basis which also includes making sure contracts are made with certain vendors.

Responsible for time keeping for the department using KRONOS systems.

Administrative Assistant (9/ 2011- 7/ 2012) -, Department of Lymphoma/Myeloma

Provided administrative support to two research faculty

Provided assistance with Visa renewal and registration for research fellows

Assisted with grant submissions which included but not limited to creating budgets, reviewing program announcement and creating an outline to meet the required guidelines

Prepared all travel, reimbursements, CV updates, and meeting request

Paralegal (2/2011 – 9/2011), Spherion Agency, Houston, TX

Expertly prepared motions, memos, summary judgments and other legal documents for court preparation in family, probate, and personal injury laws

Answered discovery and directly corresponded with clients and opposing council.

Interview new clients and prepped clients for trials, hearings and depositions.

Responsible for working up and following through with all cases assigned to until closed.

Lead paralegal for probate and personal injury laws.

Sr. Administrative Assistant (8/2006 – 11/201), The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX

Provided administrative support to include the scheduling of meetings for faculty.

Coordinated the Departmental of Pathology Research Seminar Series.

Organized speakers on a monthly basis to speak which included confirming their airfare, travel and hotel accommodations.

Lead in the grant submission process through CAYUSE system, including preparing budgets, biosketches, letters of support, grant progress reports and transfer agreements to the state, federal and private research agencies.

Reconciliation of financial accounts for over six research faculty.

Responsible for all reimbursements and travels.

Maintained all awarded grant accounts to ensure the spending was accurate.

Provided assistance in proctoring tests for medical students.

Legal Assistant (12/2005 – 8/2006), Kelly Law Services, Houston, TX

Managed meetings with new and existing clients.

Filed pleadings with various courts and counties dealing personal injury and probate laws.

Documentation review and prepared memos and pleadings.

Attended court when and as needed throughout trials and hearing of various cases.

Met with clients to discuss case and provide with updated information.

Prepped clients for the mediation process which included going over their testimonies to ensure accuracy of events.

Organized and maintained caseloads in personal injury, probate and bankruptcy laws.

Education & Professional Development:

Extensive Studies Criminal Justice Prairie View A&M University

NIH Grant Budget 101 - Pre & Post Award Grant Training – Resource One – Crosswalk and Basic Navigation – Managing up Training – Coeus 101 & 102 – EndNote Training

KRONOS

Press Ganey Performance System

References

Available upon request.

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