Job Description
The university offers excellent benefits, including health care and retirement plans, tuition assistance for employees and dependents, and generous time off with pay.
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Duties and Responsibilities:
- Provide support for the Director of Immersive Learning and High Impact Practices, project managers, and project committees; includes assisting with event and program coordination, promotion, participation tracking, and assessments. Includes creating report summaries. May also include creating content and posting on social media, creating flyers and other promotional items, creating web content, and/or composing emails.
- Serve as a representative of the unit and first contact for faculty, students, and community members by phone, web form, email, and in person. Answers questions about programs, funding opportunities, and classes, and connects people with appropriate staff.
- Monitor and reconcile the department’s budget for general fund and foundation accounts; includes preparing accounting records, tracking expenditures, processing faculty awards and stipends, and making payments to vendors. Create monthly budget reports for the Director and offices of the VPAA and Provost.
- Monitor, process, and track grant, award, and professional development funding, including creating FOAPs, requesting RIAs, managing designated accounts, and processing journal vouchers. Answer questions from faculty, students, and staff regarding funding and account balances. Manage end-of-year budget reconciliation.
- Schedule meetings and maintain the office calendar and digital file archive. Manage purchasing, travel authorizations, catering orders, and work orders for the unit, as needed. Monitor office accounts, contracts, equipment, spaces, and supplies and address/communicate any issues.
- Assist Director in tracking and creating report summaries related to program outcomes; may include tracking participants, archiving applications, coordinating program evaluations, and summarizing numerical and descriptive findings. Assist in verifying course attributes for all high-impact practices. Assist in archiving course materials in Cardinal Scholar.
- Assist in scheduling and supervising student workers and committee members; assign and review work; monitor attendance; provide feedback and discipline, as necessary.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
- Maintain regular and predictable attendance.
At Ball State University, we recognize inclusive excellence as an integral endeavor to fulfill our University’s mission and our strategic plan. We recruit, support, and retain a diverse population of students, faculty, and staff. We encourage and reward diversity of thought. We promote a work environment that encourages and rewards innovation and creativity. We pledge to keep Inclusive Excellence at the highest level of institutional importance and as a foundation in all that we strive to do. Our over-arching goal for Inclusive Excellence is to adopt a university-wide Inclusive Excellence approach to academic, administrative support, and service functions of the university. We believe Inclusive Excellence must be infused in every step we take.