Duties & Responsibilities

• Faculty Support – Research • Receives and prioritizes incoming work from and provides assistance to all ISE faculty; composes letters, memos, reports, forms, charts, or other documents from oral instructions or notes;; copies and assembles materials, packets, etc. to meet frequent immediate and/or short-term needs. • Provide non-technical/editorial support of manuscripts, research proposals, technical reports and technical journal articles. Compose letters/documents as directed by faculty on their behalf or for their signature. • Reviews outgoing materials for completeness, attachments, dates, and signatures. Composes general correspondence and written material; review and edit documents for appropriate spelling, punctuation, syntax and format. • Manages complex calendars, arranges for meetings, appointments and travel arrangements. When necessary, make/change meetings for principals as necessary. Obtain needed information for meetings as needed and advise/remind principals of details. Assists in coordinating faculty or departmental events, including conferences, seminars, and colloquia. • Assist with scientific journal or conference editorial responsibilities when necessary. • Assists faculty with website maintenance. Keeps website current, determines sources of and compiles information for updates and input.
• Travel and Purchasing • Support Travel related purchases through Travel request via portal, T-card pre-travel or post travel purchases, reconciling Chrome River Expense reports (with receipts). • Support purchasing through portal requests, or purchase orders from online websites using the University P-card. When using P-card, will require reconciling with Chrome River (with receipts). These purchases can include non-material purchases such as memberships to annual society.
• ISE Front office (back up) • In case of absence, serve as back up to basic Front office needs. • Assist in supporting Department head and department-wide events as needed. • Faculty and student support
• Other related duties as required to support the mission of the department.