"Faculty Assistant"

Overview

The Omenn Darling Bioengineering Institute seeks an energetic individual for a faculty assistant position to provide full administrative support to four to six faculty members and their laboratories. This individual will be responsible for general administrative duties such as planning and organizing travel and schedules, ordering equipment and supplies and tracking purchases, processing expenses, supporting the grant proposal process, assisting in academic and teaching duties, and preparing necessary correspondence.

Responsibilities

Faculty Assistance:

• Manage multiple faculty calendars, scheduling meetings, reserving space, and updating personnel list on lab websites.
• Prepare and send correspondence on behalf of faculty (i.e., letters of recommendation).
• Manage course information in Canvas, and otherwise assist faculty with their coursework.
• Plan and execute international and domestic travel arrangements for faculty, lab group members, and guests. Prepare detailed trip itineraries showing schedule of events, locations, and contacts.
• Plan and schedule events including arranging for appropriate space, catering, etc. For example, multi-day conferences, receptions, seminars, and small lab events.

Purchasing/Travel

• Purchase and receive office and laboratory supplies, maintaining records for individual research groups.
• Correspond with suppliers to request quotes, confirm availability, and resolve issues.
• Maintain and reconcile monthly travel and expense credit cards and process invoices for payment.
• Process travel and expense reporting via the Concur system - ensure reporting is in compliance with PU and government policies; enter expense details, receipts and ensure proper chart strings are used for allocations and document/backups are sufficient and accurate; follow-up on funds due to PU from host reimbursements, travel grants and personal expenses; update credit card information.

Other Administrative Duties:

• Update faculty materials such as CV, biosketch, publications, course materials.
• Provide support on research publication submissions.
• Assist in preparation of grant proposals and grant reporting materials.
• Prepare and ship correspondence and laboratory materials for research groups, including the import of research material from international collaborators.
• Provide backup assistance to other support staff in the department.
• Perform other departmental duties and special projects as needed.

Qualifications

Essential:

• Associates or other 2-year degree or equivalent, plus 1-3 years minimum related experience.
• Intermediate level proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint. Working knowledge of GoogleDocs, Gmail, and other Google products is a plus.
• Strengths proofreading and editing correspondence, reports and other documents, as well as experience in web site updating.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, work collaboratively as a part of a team, and function in demanding situations is essential.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, ability to take initiative and meet firm deadlines. Excellent organizational skills, the ability to work independently with a high level of accuracy and energy, manage multiple priorities simultaneously, and exercise discretion in obtaining and providing factual and confidential information.

Preferred:

• Familiarity with Princeton University's systems: Information Warehouse, PRIME, Concur, Canvas, EMS, Open Scholar.
• Interest in and experience with social media is preferred.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.

Princeton University is an Equal Opportunity and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.