Appalachian State University
Located in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, AppState offers a challenging academic environment, energetic campus life and breathtaking location. AppState combines the best attributes of a small liberal arts college with those of a large research university. At Appalachian State University, we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with the preferred qualifications in the job posting, we encourage you to apply anyway! You may just be the candidate for this or other roles. We appreciate your interest in joining our AppState Community.
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FEATURED POSTING:
The Department of Communications is looking for a Lead Administrative Assistant serves as office manager and support to the chair and assistant chairs.
Responsibilities include::
- Overseeing office staff, timesheets, dean’s recommendations, faculty and staff hiring, and personnel records, maintaining faculty annual reviews and merit calculations records, budgets, purchasing, and departmental accounts.
- Lead administrative communication with faculty, college, university partners, WASU, AppTV, the Appalachian, the Peel, and Second Story Media.
- Work ranges from creating and implementing workflows across faculty, staff, student, and administrative functions to serving the chair through problem-solving near and long-term issues and to exercising independent decision-making and judgment in support of the chair and assistant chairs.
Hiring Range: $43,542 - $46,643
Requested Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education and experience
- Two to five years of experience with higher education financial software and processes
- Knowledge of budgeting processes
- High-level skills in managing numerical data in related software, including Microsoft Excel
- Expert proficiency in Google Apps
- Demonstrated ability to understand and carry out complex policies related to purchasing, budgeting, hiring, and personnel matters
- Ability to manage essential departmental functions in the absence of the chair and assistant chairs and exercise independent judgment
- Must be able to maintain confidentiality
- Excellent communication skills, orally and in writing
- Demonstrated professionalism in departmental representation
- Ability to work independently on complex financial processes
- Capacity to work well within a team