Manpreet Virdi

Enrolment Services Administrative Assistant at The University of British Columbia

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

About

I am a determined and hard working person with a goal oriented personality. My objective is to find a position where I can contribute the skills and knowledge I gained at UBC to an organization interested in advancing social change.

Experience

  • Enrolment Services Administrative Assistant at The University of British Columbia
    Jul 2015 - Present · 11 yrs 1 mo

    Working with the Student Information System Centre to report on the status of international students, processing transfer credits for exchange students, updating records for co-conferred students and updating financial hold records. Administrative and clerical tasks including updating security clearances for members of the campus community, organizing student records, processing employee travel and expense claims using an online payment tool and filing. Using Visio to prepare organizational charts and compiling master lists of job descriptions in excel. Taking on the role of Earthquake Safety Ambassador. Welcome Center and Advising Center Greeter during UBC's Weeks of Welcome. Preparing articles for the Enrolment Services Connected Newsletter

  • Assistant Receptionist & Data Entry Clerk at South Vancouver Community Policing Centre
    Oct 2003 - May 2020 · 16 yrs 8 mos

    My duties as a volunteer include: Reception duties include: greeting community members and referring them to resources and information, answering the two-line phone system and accurately recording messages, filling out citizen reports of criminal or menacing activity, recording the receipt of lost items and searching for identifying information so that the items can be returned, administering the engraver rental service, updating statistics in excel for the speed watch program and completing small projects (i.e. Children’s Safety Book).

  • Administrative Assistant at Cerebral Palsy Association of British Columbia
    Apr 2012 - Jun 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos

    My duties as a volunteer include: Updating volunteer database in Mail Chimp, routinely removing fax number from advertising spam lists, data entry using excel, carrying out web based-research to compile a community resource document in excel, generating, printing and mailing tax receipts in microsoft office and updating admin and operations manual for staff/volunteer computers. Using social media to generate excitement and momentum for fundraising events such as Steptember and Scotiabank Charity Challenge.

  • Contract Administrative Work at Big Sisters Vancouver
    Nov 2014 - Nov 2014 · 1 mo

    Researched potential job fair vendors and created database of contacts for a Big Sisters job fair.

  • Administrative Assistant at Public Guardian and Trustee
    Jul 2009 - Aug 2009 · 2 mos

    Summer intern ship in different departments at the Public Guardian and Trustee. Duties include: Word processing, filing, scanning documents, closing client files, and reception duties.