The Department of English serves undergraduate students who are majoring and minoring in English and others taking our courses towards their BA. It also includes a graduate Ph.D. program and the First Year Writing Program, which serves the entire undergraduate population in Arts and Sciences. Our faculty includes a large number of part-time lecturers and Graduate Instructors.
What You'll Do:
Under limited supervision, the Administrative Coordinator provides advanced administrative support and communications for the department. The Administrative Coordinator will handle complex and confidential situations and requests and serve in a highly visible capacity as a resource for the department with students, staff, faculty, and other constituents. This role will also handle the below duties:
- Help oversee the daily operation of the office, evaluating workflow and productivity and providing direction and guidance to student office staff.
- Produce reports and other complex documents and materials, including drafting, proofreading, and editing, and designing layout and graphics for brochures and presentations.
- Coordinate parts of the department budget to monitor, track expenditures, troubleshoot problems, and prepare reports.
- Gather data and statistics, create surveys, conduct research, and draft reports, summaries, or presentation material.
- Plan and coordinate meetings and special events, including contacting speakers, designing promotional material, and coordinating support for speakers and presenters.
- In collaboration with a faculty director, they will coordinate the department’s First-Year Writing Program and/or other projects for the department.
Basic Requirements:
- Knowledge and skills as typically acquired by a high school diploma/GED and 5+ years of administrative experience OR a Bachelor's degree and 3+ years of experience
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office suite including word processing, editing and graphics functions, spreadsheet, and database knowledge
- Bookkeeping or basic accounting knowledge and excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Event planning and/or communication-based/customer service work history
- Experience working in a higher education atmosphere is a plus Technologically inclined candidates are preferred.
Special Work Schedule Requirements:
This position is expected to work Tufts Commencement on one Sunday in May. Position hours are Monday – Friday, 9am - 5pm.