Category: Employment

This week we are highlighting a Unit Human Resources Administrator position with Chemistry (Posting #8806). This position oversees and administers Chemistry’s human resources (HR) function across all employee types; serves as a resource to the department administrator for all aspects of human resources administration; writes and maintains recommended job descriptions; participates in recruitment and interview processes; executes hiring recommendations; implements departmental orientation; provides departmental HR training to supervisors for employee development and performance management activities; acquires and maintains labor relations knowledge through interaction with HR Employee Relations and by reading and interpreting union contracts; serves as a liaison between management and functional offices; gathers hiring information, and ensures availability of funds for related positions, oversees and approves bi-weekly payroll and a variety of payroll forms; assists in preparation of reports; assists in human resources-related services for Chemistry’s business office, research support office, graduate office and main office as needed.

For a complete description of this position, and to view all of our current postings, please go to www.jobs.msu.edu and select Support Staff under the Fast Jobs Search.

This week we are highlighting an Administrative Assistant II position with University Advancement (Posting #8779). This position serves as the resource expert on University Advancement endowment matters; creates and compiles reports by gathering pertinent information; creates documents; compiles and analyzes data and reports and provides administrative support for projects; prioritizes, gathers, screens and relays sensitive information received from University donors, executives, trustees, faculty and staff; develops and maintains positive relationships with various offices on- and off-campus; interprets University and unit policy, protocol and administrative procedures in response to inquiries and initiates necessary action; assists in planning and developing fiscal procedures; compiles and analyzes information in order to produce and assist with departmental reports; provides administrative support to the Director of Finance & Endowments for University Advancement while ensuring strict confidentiality; schedules, coordinates and maintains calendars and schedules; arranges domestic and international travel; processes reimbursements, transfers funding, processes payments, and establishes and reconciles accounts; serve as backup to other support staff when needed.

For a complete description of this position, and to view all of our current postings, please go to www.jobs.msu.edu and select Support Staff under the Fast Jobs Search.

This week we are highlighting an Office Assistant III position with the Animal Science Department – ANR (Posting #8733). This position manages the main office for the Department of Animal Science (ANS); interacts with all faculty, staff, students and public in a positive, professional manner; greets and directs visitors and callers; answers ANS email questions; updates directories; schedules conference rooms and coordinates billings; handles office supplies and equipment needs; maintains copier and assigns codes; processes security cards; handles other daily operational support needs of the office; assists the Research Administrator with maintenance of grant accounts; processes KFS transactions; assists the fiscal officer with processing of HR/AHR appointment and reappointment paperwork; processes visa applications; assists with department event planning for guest speakers and special events; prepares flyers, invitations and meeting materials; arranges travel; books rooms; orders food; serves as an emergency contact coordinator; and serves as ANS building contact.

For a complete description of this position, and to view all of our current postings, please go to www.jobs.msu.edu and select Support Staff under the Fast Jobs Search.

This week we are highlighting an Administrative Assistant I position with Computer Science and Engineering (Posting #8672). This position manages the day-to-day operations, details and organization of the staff and operational activities involved in the delivery of a large service course; interfaces with faculty/graduate assistants/students and others; tracks and monitors activities; compiles and interprets data from various computer applications; task management; problem tracking and report; works with systems staff/instructor to maintain student and staff information in databases; compiles and generates reports; assists in scheduling for physical facilities.

For a complete description of this position, and to view all of our current postings, please go to www.jobs.msu.edu and select Support Staff under the Fast Jobs Search.

This week we are highlighting a Communications Manager I position with Communications and Brand Strategy (Posting #8610). The Communications Manager will assist with the development and implementation of multiple ongoing PR campaigns to promote the work of key MSU researchers; will research and identify key media and write releases and content for the researcher’s websites; will help track and evaluate plan metrics in order to assess the effectiveness of the plans and develop future efforts; will also research and help identify different vehicles and creative ways to promote the researchers. For a complete description of this position, and to view all of our current postings, please go to www.jobs.msu.edu and select Support Staff under the Fast Jobs Search.

This week we are highlighting an Executive Staff Assistant position with the Libraries (Posting #8579). This position assists the Director of Libraries with day-to-day operations and administrative tasks; works in tandem with the business officer to manage all Main Office operations; serves as backup fiscal officer for the Libraries to analyze budgets, make recommendations, and monitor and approve financial expenditures as necessary; works in tandem with the fiscal officer to ensure that the Libraries are meeting fiscal objectives; prepares year-end reports, processes gifts, prepares gift acknowledgement letters and year-end endowment letters to donors, including the endowment activity report; deposits gifts and processes gifts of materials through the MSU Foundation; maintains donor filing system; reconciles monthly development account and the Development Officers’ p-card statements; prepares year-end payroll deduction acknowledgements; manages and coordinates the Libraries’ statistics and information gathering efforts, including preparing the annual report for the Association for Research Libraries; assists with gathering information needed for grant proposals and other major projects; coordinates updates to university publications and library policies and procedures, the Librarian Personnel Handbook and Bylaws, goals and objectives, mission, organizational chart and web pages on library committees; provides information to the administration, faculty, staff and external constituents regarding the Libraries; manages and coordinates travel by maintaining and updating library travel allocation balances, auditing travel reimbursements, approving expenditures of travel funds including registration payments, serving as a resource for questions regarding travel reimbursements; provides some clerical assistance for assistant directors; assists with and manages event planning as needed.

For a complete description of this position, and to view all of our current postings, please go to www.jobs.msu.edu and select Support Staff under the Fast Jobs Search.

This week we are highlighting a College Alumni Coordinator position with the College of Nursing (Posting #8553). This position, under the supervision of the Director of Development and Alumni Relations, plans and implements an ongoing comprehensive program to identify and sustain alumni in a positive relationship with the College of Nursing.

For a complete description of this position, and to view all of our current postings, please go to www.jobs.msu.edu and select Support Staff under the Fast Jobs Search.

This week we are highlighting an Administrative Assistant I position with the College of Communication Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office (Posting #8522). This position serves within the Communication Arts and Sciences (CAS) Accounting and Research Team office to support the College’s accounting and post-award needs; will be responsible for all-funds accounting support for multiple units within the college; serves as a financial document preparer, producing and presenting grant account balance and detail balance reports to administrators and faculty PI’s; assisting with monitoring for compliance of grantor requirements; collecting and providing analysis of data relating to CAS faculty research.  For a complete description of this position, and to view all of our current postings, please go to www.jobs.msu.edu and select Support Staff under the Fast Jobs Search.

This week we are highlighting a Senior Human Resources Professional I/S  position with the Human Resources Assistant Vice President’s Office (Posting #8357). This position supervises the HR Operations Center transactions team in the MSU Human Resources Solution Center. Primary duties include: provides first-level supervision to the operations team systems transactions staff; designs, implements and monitors data transactional processes; investigates and resolves issues related to systems transactions; identifies and implements ongoing training necessary for team; coordinates processes for properly maintaining employee records in EBS with HR transactions; develops and periodically updates process documentation materials for HR transactions; trains employees to ensure consistency of HR system transactions; collaborates with Solutions Center supervisors on applicable processes and to resolve problems; maintains compliance with laws and regulations; participates in continuous process improvement activities including periodic efficiency reviews and process mapping; coordinates with data analysis team on data audit corrections and investigations; communicates and coordinates with various MSU stakeholder groups about process deadlines and changes; collaborates with HR Centers of Expertise as needed on policy decisions and reviews; performs other duties as assigned.

For a complete description of this position, and to view all of our current postings, please go to www.jobs.msu.edu and select Support Staff under the Fast Jobs Search.