Administrative Assistant IV - College Of Design And Engineering (0.86 Fte)

Wesleyan University Middletown , CT 06457

Posted 2 months ago

This Administrative Assistant IV reports to the Director of the newly created College of Design and Engineering and is responsible for providing support for the Director, faculty, and students of the College.

Responsibilities include:

  • Act as point of contact for the College; communicate effectively with faculty, staff, students, departments, and visitors.

  • Assist with the preparation of reports and proposals, write correspondence and memorandums, and create flyers, brochures, and newsletters.

  • Provide support for faculty searches, tenure and promotion cases, colloquia and special projects as needed.

  • Manage/reconcile budgets and faculty research accounts.

  • Process p-cards, A/P vouchers, travel reimbursements, and other financial transactions.

  • Provide monthly financial reports to Department Chair and faculty of spending and balances.

  • Oversee Payroll submissions and associated budgets of student workers, course assistants, and other student payments.

  • Maintain databases and generate reports and mailing lists, maintain calendars and organize meetings, and manage office correspondence and procedures.

  • Maintain confidential files for CoDES faculty, staff, and students.

  • Assist in compiling course offerings using the Curriculum Development System.

  • Liaison with departmental staff to manage crosslistings, edit material for course catalog and university publications.

  • Assist in updating and maintaining major and minor requirements and details for the university catalog, including all major tracks, minor concentrations, and the 2-1-1-1 Dartmouth Engineering program.

  • Oversee IDEAS Minor and Major Declaration request process, including providing students with information about the major and minor, communicating with and assigning major and minor advisors, and working with major track and minor concentration liaisons to update information related to the major and minor.

  • Coordinate with individual major and minor advisors in reviewing student petitions, including credit transfer requests.

  • Coordinate with IDEAS course instructors and procure supplies required for IDEA listed courses.

  • Oversee scheduling of lab/classroom spaces.

  • Coordinate the logistics for all program events, which includes scheduling, marketing, room reservations, transportation, travel and catering arrangements.

  • Coordinate college-initiated field trips, including arranging transportation and admission fees.

  • Update and maintain CoDES website (public facing) and Sharepoint (internal).

  • Assist in the hiring of Makerspace Monitors and Course Assistants in Handshake.

  • Support the Makerspace coordinator (supplies, maintenance, etc.).

  • Oversee student workers as needed.

  • Other duties as assigned.

This is an on-campus position.

This position is in the secretarial/clerical bargaining union. The position works 30hrs per week for 52 weeks per year for a total of 1,560 hours per year.


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Administrative Assistant IV - College Of Design And Engineering (0.86 Fte)

Wesleyan University