Essential Functions : Under the general supervision of the Department Chair, the incumbent must exercise independent judgment and initiative to manage the day-to-day activities of the Geography, Geology and Environment & Natural Sciences (NATS) department office. The incumbent is expected to address a wide range of problems utilizing university, college and department policies and procedures. The incumbent provides administrative and basic technical support for the Department Chair and all faculty, including creating documents, scheduling, and file maintenance. The incumbent will develop and maintain a complex system of electronic files to track data as well as having responsibility for monitoring and updating the department website. The incumbent will serve as the primary contact for lecturers, teaching and graduate assistants and will provide initial orientation to the department to new faculty members. The incumbent will track faculty workloads, work closely with the various departmental committees, maintain the department’s space inventory, hire student workers, help to organize, and coordinate activities around new faculty recruitment, and plan special events. The incumbent will interact with and solve problems for work unit customers and staff and provide work direction to clerical support staff. The incumbent will help the chair develop class schedules for the department, track utilization of department resources, allocate use of special purpose rooms, calculate faculty costs, reconcile supervision rosters, and manage attendance records. The incumbent will coordinate the processing of financial requests and track paperwork to ensure timely processing of purchase requisitions, including office supplies, furniture, equipment, contracts and lab supplies. The incumbent will complete university forms such as requests for travel, expense claims, petty cash requests, mileage reports, requests for checks, etc. In addition, the incumbent will balance and maintain all the departments State and University Auxiliary Services (UAS) accounts and reconcile Peoplesoft ledgers with the Natural and Social Science (NSS) Fiscal Assistant. The successful candidate will use a variety of office support technology and systems including Microsoft Word, Excel, and Golden Eagle Territory (GET) to enter data and generate reports; maintenance of PC-based databases; and use of electronic and voice mail. The incumbent must prioritize work and meet deadlines in a busy office environment and perform other related duties as assigned.
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