Bachelor’s degree and four years of administrative/grant management experience, or an equivalent combination of education, experience, and training is required, preferably in a college/university setting.
This position requires strong customer service focus, attention to detail, and time management skills. Professional demeanor with the ability to interface with internal and external customers with diplomacy, tact, and confidentiality is essential. Independent judgment is necessary to plan, prioritize and organize a diversified workload with attention to detail. Work requires fact-finding and compilation skills plus ability to perform a variety of tasks simultaneously. Must possess the aptitude to learn quickly.
Excellent oral communication skills are required when providing information and responding to questions from internal and external customers in one-on-one or group situations. The individual must be able to write business correspondence and procedure manuals plus compose memos, letters, and e-mails. Also, must be able to read, analyze, and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, proposals, award documents, and procedural manuals. Good proofreading skills are essential.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must have advanced level computer skills using the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook) and Adobe. In addition to producing correspondence, memos and e-mails, duties may involve assignments that require creating mail merges, fliers, newsletters, fillable forms, PowerPoint presentations, tables, graphs, and spreadsheets containing formulas and pivot tables.