Position Number: S-3992
Position Summary
As a contributing team member of the Dean's Office, provides exemplary executive support to the College of Education and Human Services and its faculty, staff, students, alumni, and external constituents. The position is responsible for complex and varied duties that support both the daily operations and mission of the College.
Required Qualifications
- High school diploma or GED.
- Three years of qualifying experience or a combination of education and experience that equates to three years.
- Experience with Microsoft Word.
- Customer service experience.
- Organizational skills with strong attention to detail.
- Demonstrated positive interpersonal skills.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to project a positive attitude.
- Ability to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines with accurate results.
- Ability to compose, proofread and edit correspondence.
Preferred Qualifications
- Associate's/Bachelor's degree.
- Demonstrated proficiency in Office 365, Internet, and CentralLink.
- Advanced skills and resourcefulness related to data collection and reporting using University databases such as SAP and Data Warehouse.
- Demonstrated willingness to further develop skillset for personal professional growth and in support of organizational growth.
- Exhibits a commitment to CMU's leadership standards, service excellence, and diversity/inclusion initiatives.
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to a changing environment.
- Established experience with the University curricular process.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Responsible for performing complex and varied supportive duties for Dean's Office administrative staff.
- Executes monthly audit of ancillary operating and discretionary cost centers managed by the Dean's Office.
- Provides exemplary support to faculty, staff, students, and visitors of the College.
- Shares in providing coverage and customer service for the Dean's Office.
- Contributes to creating and fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment.
- Performs financial transactions for the Dean's Office including fund transfers/parked documents, invoice vouchers, and other routine functions.
- Oversees office supply inventory and initiates purchases as needed.
- Assists in conducting the annual equipment inventory.
- Provides supplemental supervision of student employees.
- Oversees the reservations and maintenance of college vehicle and issuance of guest parking permits.
- Coordinates and serves on committees as assigned.
- Provides assistance to the Associate Dean in the scheduling of courses as prescribed by the University academic calendar (cyclical).
- Shares responsibility for the management of meeting spaces within EHS.
- Uses organizational skills in the successful tracking and processing of college-level awards and scholarships (cyclical).
- Provides continuous data entry for Global Campus teaching assignments using database.
- Coordinates building key assignments.
- Engages with peers and colleagues across the university to foster communication, shared learning, information gathering, and problem solving.
- Exercises initiative and independent critical problem-solving skills in the execution of duties and responsibilities.
- Collaborates with members of the team to improve operational efficiency and effectiveness of College procedures utilizing regular review and updates.
- Other duties as assigned.
Supervision Exercised
None
Position Details
- Employee Group: Administrative Office Assistant
- Pay Range: Minimum Starting Rate: $16.60 per hour
- Division: Academic Affairs
- Department: College of Education & Human Services
- Position Status: Regular
- Employment Status: Part-Time
- FTE: 0.50
- Position Type: 12 month
- Weekly Work Schedule: Mon-Fri, 20 hours/week, falling between 8am-5pm.
- Location: In person, in Mount Pleasant, MI
- Open Until Filled: Yes
About CMU
Central Michigan University has a more than 125-year legacy of preparing students to become leaders and changemakers in their communities and in their personal and professional lives.
We serve nearly 15,500 students on our Mount Pleasant campus, in satellite locations around the state and throughout the country, and through flexible online programs. Many of our approximately 300 undergraduate, master's, specialist and doctoral programs in the arts, media, business, education, human services, health professions, liberal arts, social sciences, medicine, science and engineering are nationally ranked for excellence.
CMU leads the nation in leadership development programming through our Sarah R. Opperman Leadership Institute, and we are proud to be among only 5% of U.S. universities in the top two Carnegie research classifications. Our faculty work with graduate and undergraduate students in areas such as Great Lakes research, medical innovation, engineering technology and more.
Central is home to 17 men's and women's Division 1 sports including football, basketball, gymnastics, baseball, wrestling and more. Our student-athletes achieve great success in competition and in the classroom, capturing Mid-American Conference championships and maintaining an average cumulative GPA of 3.17.
CMU is located in Mount Pleasant, a community that blends the best of small-town living with big-city amenities. It's part of the culturally varied and vibrant Great Lakes Bay Region that also includes Saginaw, Bay City, Midland and the state's largest Native American community, centered on the Saginaw Chippewa Isabella Reservation in Mount Pleasant.
Area residents enjoy the mix of outdoor activities, cultural events, shopping and dining options, and family attractions. Other major Michigan destinations and attractions — Lansing, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Traverse City, wineries, beaches, golf and ski resorts, and many more — are within easy reach of the city's central location in Michigan's Lower Peninsula.
CMU employees enjoy access to a nationally recognized wellness program along with health care and benefits that exceed regional, state and national norms.
CMU Leadership Standards
Central Michigan University is a place where we value students and work for their success, where we act as family, and where employees are engaged, appreciated and have extraordinary opportunities to make a difference.
We intentionally maintain and strengthen the hallmark CMU culture that sets us apart from our peers by expecting CMU leaders and employees to model the following Leadership Standards and develop them within their teams.
Please review the Leadership Standards before applying for this position.
Message to Applicants
Central Michigan University is dedicated to fostering an environment that is reflective of the communities we serve. We are especially interested in highly qualified candidates who will advance and promote CMU's mission, vision, and leadership standards.
You must submit an on-line application in order to be considered as an applicant for this position.
Cover letters may be addressed to the Hiring Committee.
To apply, visit https://www.jobs.cmich.edu/postings/45526
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Mount Pleasant, MI 48858
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