Graduate Affairs Administrator

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Posted: 25-Jul-24

Location: Chicago, Illinois

Type: Full-time

Salary: Open

Categories:

Other Staff/Administrative
Staff/Administrative

Internal Number: JR27101

Location: Chicago, IL

Job Description:

• Manage the BSD divisional required programming for more than 500 PhD students such as the pedagogical training assignment; first-year ethics course.

• Work with the Registrarâ™s Office on the divisional list of classes for quarterly registration; tracks and submits to the Registrarâ™s Office the divisional approval for the PhD degree milestones of admission to candidacy and final examination; quarterly graduation and annual convocation events including the Divisional Academic Ceremony. 

• Support the annual quantitative biology boot camp, the PhD student governance group Deanâ™s Council, the graduate affairs social media presence.  

• Represent the PhD programs at annual recruitment events around the country.

• Solves problems in areas such as academic and administrative policy, student admissions, curriculum research and development, and budget development.

• Recommends process improvements for programs that relate to critical student-life improvement, including emergency management, accommodations for students with disabilities, and/or the administration of health care services and programs for students.

• Performs other related work as needed.

Working Conditions

• Office environment, specified hybrid schedule.

• Weekend/Evening hours: Occasional evening and weekend hours as required by programming.

• Travel required: 10%, seasonal recruiting travel.

Application Documents

• Resume (required)

• Cover Letter (required)

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