Month: October 2012

This week we’re highlighting an Executive Staff Assistant position in MSU AgBioResearch  (Posting #6867). Some of the job duties for this position include providing administrative and secretarial support to the director/assistant VP and associate director of AgBioResearch, as well as administrative support to the fiscal officer; maintaining and coordinating directors’ calendars to ensure time prioritized/utilized effectively; scheduling meetings; arranging international and domestic travel; sorting, reviewing and directing mail, including drafting responses when appropriate; reconciling budgets/ledgers as first line review to keep fiscal officer informed of expenditures; composing/editing documents/correspondence using word processing, database management, spreadsheets and presentation software; and processing memberships, reimbursements, professional services invoices using EBS. 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’re highlighting an Administrative Associate I/S position in Agriculture, Food & Resource Economics (Posting #6825). Some of the job duties for this position include serving as the fiscal officer for the department; planning, recommending and administering the operational budgets that consist of research, teaching, extension, agency, gifts, grants and revolving accounts; participating in the development of administrative goals and objectives; generating monthly and annual financial reports and forecasting expenditures; handling grant activities that include reconciling accounts, generating reports, monitoring deliverables, resolving problems and communicating with external agencies, Contract and Grant Administration and Office of Sponsored Research; setting up budgets; and overseeing the reconciliation of accounting ledgers for multiple accounts and sub‐accounts.

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.