The incumbent will work under the direction of the Office Administrator, Department of Internal Medicine, the Associate Chair for Education and the Section Chief of the Infectious Disease Section. With the oversight of the Associate Chair for Education, the incumbent will perform highly specialized administrative support duties related to departmental Grand Rounds, the Clinician Educator Program, other departmental educational programs, and assist with general department operations. In addition, the incumbent will anticipate and provide highly specialized administrative support for the Infectious Disease Section. An in-depth knowledge of the department, department policies, CME rules and procedures is required. Good judgement, ability to exercise discretion, and the operation of various software applications is required. Anticipates and proactively provides administrative support to the Department of Medicine Infectious Disease (ID) Section. This includes, but is not limited to scheduling meetings and lectures for the ID faculty, providing meeting reminders, and coordinating logistical arrangements. Reviews on-call schedule information and identifies and reports discrepancies, enters on-call schedule information into the online on-call schedule programs, independently composes the draft of the monthly student/resident schedule. Compose email reminders to residents, students and ID attendings. Responsible for planning activities associated with the ID Quarterly retreat. Serve as a resource for students, residents, Faculty and staff of external units, and determines appropriate course of action for inquiries. Responsible for coordinating the logistical arrangements of the Department of Medicine CME activities, to include such duties as keyboarding and submitting CME documents (independently composing the drafts of the CME yearly proposal, the quarterly CME progress reports and weekly session reports), maintain the confidential records related to the CME activity, coordinate completion of and submission of required CME forms from weekly presenters, correspond with presenters who require travel, researching the most economical airfare and hotel, and then making the hotel and/or air travel arrangements for speakers, prepare honorarium payment requests which contains confidential and sensitive information regarding the presenter utilizing the approved UIC travel and expense system. Track and record expenses for the Grand Rounds budget and advises the CME Activity Director on remaining funds. Assists in the creation of drafts of the specialized announcements and Grand Rounds evaluations, for internal and external audiences, distribute Grand Rounds Evaluations after each weekly session. Manage all aspects of MicroSoft Teams participation during the weekly Grand Rounds sessions, including creating the Teams link for sessions, distributing the link to Grand Rounds attendees, starting the Teams session during each weekly session, and managing the Teams audience/chat during each weekly session. Serve as AV support to the presenters during Grand Rounds, and provides necessary materials and assistance to each presenter. Manage a process for weekly attendance. Reviews incoming mail for the CME Activity Director and responds to items within the scope of responsibility. Assist with the Department promotion and tenure process by distributing Peer evaluations regarding each Weekly presenter to students, residents and Faculty attendees, and then submitting completed Peer evaluations to the Department Office Manager who works on Promotion Packets. Further assists with the promotion and tenure process on an as-needed basis by providing the number of times promotion candidates have presented at Grand Rounds during a 5 year period. Serves as a liaison between academic (UICOMP) and OSF SFMC departmental activities, and determines the appropriate course