Executive Assist to the Dean

Job Details

Executive Assist to the Dean

Department: School of Law

Appointment Type and Duration: Regular, Ongoing

Salary: $64,000 - $70,000

Compensation Band: OS-OA06-Fiscal Year 2025-2026

FTE: 1.0

Application Review Begins May 18, 2026; Position open until filled

Special Instructions to Applicants Along with your online application, please include your resume and the names and contact information of three professional references.

For questions about this position, please email lawhr@uoregon.edu.

Department Summary

The University of Oregon School of Law is a dynamic, ABA-accredited law school and Oregon's only public law school. Degrees offered include Juris Doctor (JD), Master of Laws (LLM), Master of Conflict and Dispute Resolution (CRES), and a minor in undergraduate legal studies. Oregon Law's mission is to provide a world-class education. We prepare students through excellent classroom teaching paired with a multitude of practical experience opportunities and robust professional development. Our faculty produce exceptional research and scholarship. We accomplish our mission in a positive, inclusive environment where we strive to provide everyone opportunities to grow, contribute, and develop. Our aim is to learn, teach, and practice the principles of equity and justice as critical foundations for our overall effort to achieve excellence as a top-ranked law school. Success in this work requires a diverse group of people in various faculty and staff roles working in one of our two locations, Eugene and Portland. The University of Oregon is located within the traditional homelands of the Southern Kalapuya. Learn more about Oregon Law at law.uoregon.edu, and consider joining our team.

Position Summary

The Executive Assistant to the Dean provides professional, confidential, daily support for the Dean of the School of Law and manages the operations of the Office of the Dean. The position requires excellent communication and leadership skills and an ability and desire to establish and maintain productive, collaborative relationships with students, law faculty and staff, and University of Oregon colleagues.

This position must be able to work occasional nights and/or weekends to fulfill special projects and events.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree OR equivalent combination of skills, experience, education, and training.
• Two years' experience providing confidential executive support that includes experience managing a calendar for an executive-level position.
• Two years' of office and project management experience of increasing responsibility, to include serving as team lead on projects.

Professional Competencies

• Ability to work effectively with students, staff, and faculty from culturally diverse backgrounds and with multiple intersectional identities; and advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the university community.
• Ability to effectively organize, manage administrative tasks, provide customer service, and leadership.
• Ability to communicate effectively, including the ability to write on behalf of the Dean.
• Ability to work effectively and utilize a range of communication channels with diverse groups of students, faculty, administrators, staff, and members of the bench and bar from a wide range of backgrounds.
• Ability to manage stressful situations with tact and diplomacy and to use sound judgment at all times.
• Ability to handle highly sensitive and/or confidential information.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word and Outlook.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in handling correspondence, travel and calendaring for an executive or Dean in a higher education setting
• Knowledge of public relations, fundraising, and University of Oregon programs.