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Temporary position with corporate head office in North Vancouver for a seasoned Administrative Assistant with excellent Word, Excel and Outlook skills.  This position provides administrative support to an expansion team of a retail franchise organization.   You should have current experience supporting a team, including preparing reports, updating database information, managing Outlook calendars and email, spreadsheets, expense reports, etc.  Strong communication skills and ability to prioritize tasks effectively will be essential.  Close to the Seabus terminal.

Starts February 10th until March 9th in downtown corporate office.  This is a vacation relief position, providing administrative support to two managers and two directors.   Strong MS Oulook skills are essential to manage multiple calendars.  You also need to be able to multi-task effectively in a busy environment and have excellent interpersonal and communication skills.  Experience with Passport software would be an asset.

Duties:

• Calendar maintenance
• Scheduling meetings
• Handling catering requests
• Event planning
• Making travel arrangements
• Accounts payable and expense report prep
• Mail, ordering supplies, dep't. phones

Starts ASAP for four people with excellent data entry skills and strong detail orientation.  Positions are for approximately 3 to 6 months and the location is close to a Skytrain station. 

Most of your time will be on the computer so the successful candidates will be computer savvy and fast, accurate typists. Daily interactions with internal and external customers will require strong interpersonal skills and a desire to deliver efficient but friendly assistance.

Duties:

• Completing all data entry for sales commissions by deadline
• Ensuring that billing information is accurate
• Learning and understanding departmental documentation, processes and procedures

Qualifications:

• Current office skills and experience including excellent data entry speed and accuracy
• experience with MAC an asset
• Accurate attention to detail
• Good time management and ability to meet deadlines
• Above average communication skills
• Team player with good judgment and problem solving skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high pressure environment
  

Hourly wage $14.00

Payroll and Benefits Administrator contract position for a term of one (1) year, available with large, national company in their Delta location. As a member of the HR team, you will be responsible for planning and directing all operations of the Payroll and Benefits department. Other responsibilities include resolving issues related to compensation and benefits, preparing statistical reports, investigating and troubleshooting problems related to payroll. 

This is an ideal opportunity for a seasoned payroll professional with 5-8 years’ related experience, preferably using ADP PC Payroll for Windows system.

The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal skills and have a flexible approach to problem solving HR related issues.  You will have experience in the re-design and coordination of multiple and complex benefit programs.  Payroll experience in a retail and/or franchise industry is an asset. Familiarity with ReportSmith is also an asset, along with strong Excel skills.

Along with a great career in payroll/benefits, you will be joining a dynamic HR team that is customer focused and strives for employee satisfaction. This is a busy team that laughs lots but gets the job done!

You will also enjoy many perks and benefits which include:

• Competitive remuneration and benefit packages!
• On-site Gym!
• Wellness Program!
• Training and Education reimbursements!

Two Visual Designers with solid knowledge of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator are required for a six month project beginning ASAP with a large, international company.  You should also have working knowledge of Adobe Flash, CSS and HTML as well as at least three years of professional web design experience. Candidates will be expected to bring a portfolio of work examples with them.

Responsibilities:

• Translate interaction design/wire frames into visual user interfaces
• Deliver site concepts, compos, annotated comps and cut assets
• Ensure a consistent visual presentation
• Develop new approaches to complex design problems and convey ideas in tangible forms
• Apply user-centered design practices to create a high quality consumer experience
• Work closely with team members of interaction designers and copywriters to execute on group and site vision

South Burnaby location.

3 month project starts as soon as possible at Burnaby site of major communications company.  Candidates must have relevant experience working with media partners and working in a media publishing environment.  Working within a team, your main responsibilities will include issue management, responding to support requests from publishers, and corresponding and working with the Publishing Support team in North America.  You will also monitor forum discussion boards and provide walkthroughs of the company's publishing tools and apps to end users. 

Long-term project starting mid-February until the end of June at Burnaby site of major communications company.  Candidates must have 4-5 years experience in design and development and possess the ability to develop for interactive multi-channel web solutions.

You will be involved with the design and writing of clean and consistent code, unit testing and programming activities.

Relevant skills required:

• Interface design and development experience such as web design and animation, information architecture, testing and analysis
• HTML, XHTML, CSS JavaScript
• Mobile App Development
• Object-oriented programming experience
• Photoshop, Flash and other Creative Suite applications
• Ajax, Flash ActionScript and Silverlight would be assets

Major telecommunications company is seeking three experienced QA testers for a six month project starting ASAP in Burnaby.  You must have experience developing test cases and test6ing web applications on different platforms, preferably mobile.  Experience with JavaScript, PHP, CS3 and excellent analytical skills are also required.

Contract position for at least four months with a leading edge tech group. Working with the Media

R&D delivery team, you will participate in the installation, configuration and maintenance of staging environments, including network configuration, UNIX server setup, database deployment, web server deployment, etc.  Other responsibilities include ongoing network administration, debugging system level issues and troubleshooting hardware, software and connectivity problems. 

Candidates must have:

• 5+ years network administration experience with strong background in Redhat OS
• Computer Science degree or related technology diplomas
• Experience in setting up and deploying multi-node UNIX environments
• Hands-on systems integration experience on a variety of hardware and software platforms
• Critical thinking skills, ability to accurately analyze information and troubleshoot system software
• Experience with configuring Load Balancers would be preferred

Some corporate travel to the US (approximately 10% of the time) will be required.