Location: all cities,ME, USA
The Administrative Coordinator performs a wide variety of clerical and administrative tasks to support our Health Promotion Studies Program and the Westbrook College of Health Professions Deans Office.
The expected pay is $19.00 per hour (annualized to $39,520). Total compensation is $54,202-$67,994, depending on which medical and dental plans are selected.
This position offers hybrid flexible work options (must be able to attend meetings and regularly scheduled days on the Portland/Biddeford campus).
About the University of New England
UNE is Maine's largest private university, with two beautiful coastal campuses in Maine, a one-of-a-kind study-abroad campus in Tangier, Morocco, and an array of flexible online offerings. In an uncommonly welcoming and supportive community, we offer hands-on learning, empowering students to positively impact a world full of challenges. We are the state's top provider of health professionals and home to Maine's only medical and dental colleges, a variety of other interprofessionally aligned health care programs, and nationally recognized programs in the marine sciences, the natural and social sciences, business, the humanities, and the arts.
UNE offers a generous comprehensive benefits package to eligible employees. The package includes varied health and dental plans; a retirement plan that includes up to an 8% match; extensive paid leave including holidays, vacation, sick and personal time; and educational benefits. Please visit the Human Resources Benefits site ( for additional information regarding UNE's fantastic benefits package.
Responsibilities
* Oversee and carry out various day-to-day departmental administrative functions.
* Perform regular administrative duties for the department: answer phones and serve as department receptionist; type/print using word processor correspondence, exams, reports, manuals, and the like; order office supplies; maintain appointment calendars; screen incoming mail; set up meetings; photocopy, and so forth.
* Coordinate, initiate, prepare, process, and/or monitor various administrative, financial and operations forms, records, reports, schedules, and other documents, ensuring timely and accurate completion of documents by other department/University students, faculty or staff, or individuals outside the University system.
* Organize and maintain various departmental files and records, frequently involving cross filing and cross-referencing of systems.
* Perform a variety of tasks related to the development and maintenance of computerized departmental records using personal computers: design and basic programming of appropriate databases and data management/reporting systems using various PC software; initial database input; ongoing use of the system, involving regular data input and using programs to generate a variety of regular and special reports.
* Develop and maintain various logs and other manual record-keeping systems related to assigned functions.
* Compile a variety of information from both manual and computerized records and files for regular and special reports, and in response to specific requests by the supervisor or other staff members.
* Prepare/coordinate bulk or other special departmental mailings.
* Perform various bookkeeping functions: initiate and process financial documents related to operating budgets or special accounts; monitor financial activity; organize and maintain financial records; prepare related reports.
* Perform basic liaison functions with students, faculty, staff, parents, or other department/program constituency: explain policies and procedures, answer various questions, coordinate services and assistance, handle special requests or problems, routing them to senior staff members as appropriate.
* Perform other specialized or technical administrative tasks related to the department's primary function.
* Confer regularly with immediate supervisor, other department/University personnel, and/or various firms, organizations and individuals outside the University to plan and coordinate activities, exchange information, resolve problems, and other related tasks.
* Train and oversee the work of junior staff members and student assistants.
* Other related duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Associate's Degree in business or other appropriate discipline, plus one to two years of relevant clerical and administrative experience, or a combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills have been acquired.
* Broad base of general clerical skills, including typing/word processing, filing, phone/office reception, and so forth.
* Good basic administrative and organizational skills. Experience in organizing and maintaining a moderately complex filing and records systems. Previous experience with computerized information systems desirable, and possibly required.
* Ability to deal effectively with a wide variety of University personnel, students, and/or outside individuals and organizations.
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