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Posted: 23-Mar-24
Location: Somerville, Massachusetts
Salary: Open
Categories:
Staff/Administrative
Internal Number: 20290
Overview
By bringing together students, staff, and faculty from a broad range of professions, the Experimental College has served as a hub for advancing the intellectual life of Tufts through innovative and collaborative learning for more than 60 years. The approximately 80 interdisciplinary and interactive courses that the Experimental College offers annually provide a broad, forward-looking curriculum that augments and enhances the more traditional offerings at Tufts, and bridges to the world beyond the university. Undergraduate students actively shape the curriculum by helping to select courses each semester, and through two peer teaching programs unique to Tufts. The Experimental College also serves as an incubator for the development of new academic offerings. Visiting instructors from outside of the academy teach many of the courses. The Experimental College also partners with various offices, academic departments, and student organizations to implement new initiatives within and beyond the classroom.
What You'll Do
In collaboration with the manager or director, the Program Administrator participates in development of goals and strategies for a university program. The Administrator applies specialized, subject matter knowledge to develop, implement, review and evaluate the program. Responsible for implementing timely, effective communications to promote the program. This position will also handle the below duties:
- Creates data management and filing systems
- Develops, analyzes, and monitors budgets, grants and contracts
- Participates in development and implements marketing and advertising efforts including writing content for website and social media material
- May design events and represent program externally at meetings and events
- Conducts research and drafts reports and results
- May provide advice and counseling to students
- Coordinates hiring and training of staff, students, and temporary help
- Assists with recruitment, application management, selection, and onboarding of new visiting lecturers each semester, and assists with support during their time as instructors
- Uses various university systems to process reimbursements, honoraria, expenses, travel, and reconciliations
- Works collaboratively with other university offices to troubleshoot and improve program efficiency
What We're Looking For
Basic Requirements:
- Knowledge and skills as typically acquired by a Bachelor's Degree and 3-5 years' experience
- Knowledge of program subject matter
- Strong organizational and problem solving skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Working knowledge if Microsoft Office Suite and equivalent Google Suite.
Special Work Schedule Requirements:
This is a hybrid role expected to be in person 4 days during most of the academic year, with additional opportunities for remote work during summer and winter breaks.
Pay Range
Minimum $52,600.00, Midpoint $65,750.00, Maximum $78,900.00
Salary is based on related experience, expertise, and internal equity; generally, new hires can expect pay between the minimum and midpoint of the range.
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This is Tufts.
Tufts is a student-centered research university with a constellation of world-class schools encompassing undergraduate, graduate, professional, and lifelong learning programs. Across the university, students satisfy their intellectual curiosity, jump-start rewarding careers, and unlock bright, promising futures. Through rigorous academics, groundbreaking research, and a commitment to civic engagement and leadership, our community of students, faculty, and staff collaborate across four Massachusetts campuses to build a brighter world (Medford/Somerville, Grafton, Boston-Chinatown, and Boston-Fenway).
Our employees light the way.
Tufts develops innovative solutions for the most complex global challenges of our time through teaching, research, and an unparalleled investment in civic engagement. In administration and operations, in dining centers and in labs, every employee plays a role in our mission for a better, brighter world.
At Tufts, the work you do matters. So do you.
Enjoy flexible and remote opportunities, innovative benefits, and an inclusive, welcoming, collaborative culture that supports you. Develop your skills. Take classes. Advance your career. ...Do work that makes you proud in a community you love. All while taking great care of yourself and the people who matter most.
We’re all in on creating an anti-racist culture of belonging.
Across Tufts, we’ve deepened our commitment to making the university a truly inclusive place. Where every member of our community contributes and feels like they belong. Where diverse perspectives are seen as our strength, and great ideas are always heard. In offices, labs, classrooms, and beyond, we’re doing this work together, knowing it is the foundation of our mission to create a brighter world.
An innovative university needs resourceful people who make things happen.
Here, collaboration isn’t just a buzzword, colleagues actually care, and community means everything. Sound appealing? Come join us. Choose a campus and find the role that fits you. Tufts University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to increasing the diversity of our faculty and staff and fostering their success when hired. Members of underrepresented groups are welcome and strongly encouraged to apply.
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