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About the Job:

  Graduate Support: 30%
- Serve as main contact for inquiries about graduate admission, including e-mails and phone calls with prospective students.
- Participate in and monitor policies that impact graduate education at College and University level.
- Develop and maintain content of recruitment materials, attend recruiting events, and provide information and answer questions.
- Arrange travel for selected prospective student visits including airfare and hotel and local arrangements, schedule visits with faculty and students.
- Gather and process graduate application packages through the ApplyYourself system.
- Coordinate the preparation of graduate student award nominations on behalf of the DGS and the nomination committee.
- Help prepare reports regarding graduate program.
- Coordinate the review and update of graduate handbooks, forms, and web content.
- Coordinate fall orientation for new students.
- Track graduate student registration to ensure graduate students are on track for graduation.
- Handle Graduate School Forms necessary for matriculation.
- Collect and track relevant data on the graduate program and students, including fellowships, funding, and placement for majors and minors and enter data in GradTracker system.

Student Support: 35%
- Work with Department Chair and Department Administrator to ensure curriculum and instructor/TA assignments are correct.
- Assist faculty, instructors, and students with grades and registration issues, including waitlists.
- Assist students with registering for research practicums and directed studies.
- Assist the Director of Undergraduate Studies with Scholarships / Internships.
- Assist the CSA student association with their activities, including alumni events.
- Set up and distribute class evaluation materials each semester, collect and submit evaluations; maintain records of class evaluation scores for faculty, instructors, and graduate students.
- Manage and monitor deadlines for ECS Curriculum.
- Maintain curriculum in ECS.
- Enter Communication Studies curriculum into the system.
- Enter instructor and teaching assistant appointments into the system.
- Manage and monitor deadlines to assure timelines are met.

Department Administrative Support (35%)
- Serve as the Communication Studies Office Coordinator. Answer general inquiries, routing calls to appropriate people and answering general inquiries regarding the Department of Communication Studies.
- Provide administrative support to the Department Chair and Administrator.
- Serve as manager to the departmental email account: respond to inquiries, management departmental address lists and listservs.
- Handle incoming and outgoing mail, deliveries, and courier services.
- Faxing, copying, scanning, errands, and ordering of office supplies and textbooks.
- Collect and distribute informational materials related to events, policies and procedures, deadlines, and other departmental information and communication.
- Gather information from faculty, staff, and students to update both online and print materials.
- Oversee department copier maintenance and purchase including supplies and web access for faculty and staff; provide assistance in technical support issues and maintain inventory of equipment and computers.
- Create and develop spreadsheets, reports, PDF documents and PowerPoint presentations to support unit operations.
- Assist with the production of COMMPOST, our departmental newsletter.
- Attend trainings, workshops and seminars as needed.
- Make sure public space is kept clean and orderly.
- Other tasks to be determined.
 

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma/GED and four years of related office experience. Training/education may be substituted for some of the years of experience.
• Demonstrated computer experience to include word processing, spreadsheets, and databases.
• Solid customer service skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Four-year college degree
• Prior University of Minnesota experience
• Student records, course scheduling experience
• Experience with event planning and project coordination
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills
• Demonstrated time management and problem-solving skills
• Resourcesul team player who excels at building trusting relationships with customers and colleagues.

About University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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