"SENIOR STAFF COORDINATOR, College of Arts & Sciences, Romance Studies"

Job Description

Established in 1873, Arts and Sciences is Boston University's largest and most academically diverse unit, encompassing over 8,400 undergraduates, 2,000 graduate students, 800 faculty members, and 300 staff across 50 departments, programs, centers, and institutes. Our faculty are award-winning researchers, innovative teachers, and dedicated mentors committed to exploring the complexities of our present and past, uncovering new perspectives, and crafting creative solutions to real-world problems. Our staff are dynamic, mission-driven professionals who foster community, inclusion, and belonging to advance every aspect of the college enterprise. Our community thrives on collaboration, bold ideas, and interdisciplinary exploration. Join us in supporting the pursuit of knowledge that changes the world and provides boundless opportunities to inspire the next generation of leaders. We offer generous benefits, including health, dental, and life insurance, tuition remission, retirement savings, paid time off, and holiday leave. Boston University's Department of Romance Studies seeks an individual with excellent communication and organizational skills to work as Senior Staff Coordinator in a collaborative and dynamic department that values diversity and inclusion, teamwork, creative initiative and the ability to work independently. The Senior Staff Coordinator is responsible for running the public-facing front office of a multilingual department with approximately 90 full-time and part-time faculty, graduate students, and staff. The Senior Staff Coordinator hires and supervises student workers in a variety of tasks; coordinates the course scheduling of our undergraduate language and literature program; assigns faculty advisors to our majors and minors in French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish; edits a weekly newsletter; helps maintain the departmental webpage and social media; disseminates information about courses; and provides information and statistics as needed to faculty and staff. The Senior Staff Coordinator also organizes departmental events, including social occasions and Commencement. This is a full-time, 12-month position with excellent benefits, an outstanding opportunity for a versatile individual who values the study of language and culture and wishes to work closely with faculty and students.

Required Skills

Required for this position are an associate degree or B.A.; 1-3 years of experience and experience in communicating effectively and diplomatically, both orally and in writing, with people from a variety of cultural backgrounds; and the ability to find creative ways to promote the work of faculty and students and enrich the undergraduate experience for our language and literature majors. Please submit a cover letter and resume. We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, natural or protective hairstyle, religion, sex, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, military service, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, or because of marital, parental, or veteran status. We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.