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SalaryTo Apply: Please submit your application directly to the Mercatus Center's job posting here.
Office Assistant (Part-Time)
Overview:
Be the face of our Front Desk Reception. At the Mercatus Center, George Mason University, we're on the lookout for an enthusiastic Part-Time Office Assistant to be welcoming and efficient at our front desk reception area. This pivotal role extends its support to the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS), providing an exceptional opportunity to contribute to two dynamic organizations.
Responsibilities:
- Greets and directs visitors.
- Skillfully manages phone calls, ensuring that everyone is connected to the right person or helped with voicemail setup.
- Take charge of our incoming and outgoing mail, ensuring everything is sorted, received, and dispatched with precision.
- Coordinates the pick-up and delivery of express mail services (FedEx, UPS, etc.).
- Assists in receiving office supplies.
- Oversee parking validations.
- Embrace various tasks that add value and efficiency to our team's efforts.
Minimum Qualifications:
- High School diploma or GED.
- Polished professional with an outgoing attitude and being a team player.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Proficiency in general office applications.
- Familiarity and working knowledge of general office machines.
- Ability to lift office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.
This role will report in-person to our Arlington office - 3434 Washington Blvd. Arlington, VA 22201.
About the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University:
The Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) supports and partners with university professors working within the classical liberal intellectual tradition. Our vision is that higher education becomes a place where the open exchange of ideas flourishes, and where ideas within the classical liberal tradition are regularly taught, discussed, challenged, and developed so that they inform scholarly and public discourse on the key challenges facing a free society.
Each year, IHS provides thousands of aspiring and established professors graduate student fellowships, career development support, research funding, and support for on-campus student programs. Most importantly, through its scholarly convenings IHS connects these scholars to one another to form a diverse and growing community of thought leaders advancing ideas essential to the good society—a pluralistic and tolerant society in which individuals and communities flourish in a context of openness, dignity, equality, and freedom.
