Summer Temporary - Assistant Office Manager (2 openings)

Please note that references provided at the time of application for staff positions will not be contacted until the applicant has been offered the position.

Description:

The Summer 2025 temporary positions offer three orientation dates: April 29, May 19, and June 2. Please consider these dates when applying for a summer position.

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  Learning Opportunities for This Position
  • Learning to meet standards of performance
  • Learning supervisory role and tasks
  • Learning how to be leader
  • Learning how to discipline staff
  • Learning how to conduct team meetings and building team skills
  • Learning task and time efficiency
  • Developing training and management skills
  • Develop office knowledge
  • Learning accounting procedures: error finding, checks and balances
  • Evolving excel worksheet skills
  • Learning budgeting skillsets
  • Learning reporting skillsets
  • Developing scheduling skillsets
  • Learning to prioritize tasks

Your Key Responsibilities:

• Phone duties and walk in customer care
• Training other students in departmental tasks
• Supervising students in similar role to that of staff supervisor
• Working with capital projects and departmental projects
• Balancing Banner reports and various excel sheets
• Correcting work order entries and reports
• Correcting behavior of other student staff in accordance to office rules
• Proxy within Tracy for staff student supervisor
• Paying invoices
• Balancing Statements
• Running and reviewing budget reports
• Develop student schedules
• Filing and other clerical duties as assigned
• Leading labor meetings, at least 3
• Performing new student onboarding, training,etc.
• Creating daily task sheets for other student staff
• Building and editing excel sheets
• Building and editing formal budget reports
• Revising and editing office policy with staff student supervisor
• Other tasks as assigned

What You'll Bring:

• Must have a schedule that allows you to work with other students in a supervisory role
• Must be able to attend various trainings on campus
• Must have a strong want for a leadership role
• Must be trained in all aspects of student duites
• General: Dependability, willingness to learn, ability to work with very limited to no supervision
• Skills: knowledge of excel and word, good organizational skills
• An ability to train and willingness to lead
• A working knowledge of office procedures and protocol
  • Physical: ability to sit for long periods of time
  • Academic: must be in good standing with Berea College
    • Desirable qualities: driver’s license, Berea college defensive driver course, knowledge of basic accounting procedures, leadership skills. Flexible schedule

Founded in 1855, Berea College is nationally recognized as the first coeducational and interracial college in the South. Berea has a longstanding commitment to interracial education and is one of the most racially diverse private liberal arts colleges in the United States. With an emphasis on service to Appalachia and beyond, Berea enrolls more than 1,500 students from 46 states and U.S. territories and more than 70 countries. Berea College admits students who are unable to afford tuition and provides all of them with a no-tuition promise, valued at more than $204,000. Berea’s students excel in the College’s supportive yet demanding academic environment, and most are the first in their families to attend college. As one of only nine federally recognized Work Colleges, all Berea students are expected to work 10-12 hours weekly in various positions across campus. Berea College is listed #20 in overall ranking in the U.S. by the Wall Street Journal/College Pulse college rankings, 2023. The Washington Monthly ranks Berea College #2 Best Liberal Arts College and #1 in Social Mobility, 2023. Money Magazine ranks Berea #20 Best Overall College and #10 for Best in the South, 2023. Berea College is also the only institution in Kentucky to receive the 5-Star Rating from Money Magazine, 2023.

Located where the Bluegrass Region meets the Cumberland Mountains, the town of Berea (pop. 16,000) lies forty miles south of Lexington and is approximately two hours from Cincinnati, Louisville, and Knoxville. More information about Berea College is available at www.berea.edu.

Berea College, in light of its mission in the tradition of impartial love and social equality, welcomes all people of the earth to learn and work here.

Berea College is always looking for talented, self-motivated individuals to join our team.


Berea College is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

This position is not eligible for benefits, however, Berea College still offers unique position opportunities you can read more about below.

Our Unique Culture:
Berea College strives to be a place where people with various Christian interpretations, different religious traditions, and no religious traditions work together in support of Berea's Great Commitments.

Over the past century, various leaders of the College have applied the College’s inclusive scriptural foundation and spirit to their expanding world and welcomed those whose beliefs were consistent with the Christian gospel of impartial love. Therefore, Berea College today affirms its inclusive Christian tradition even as it respects the traditions of Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus, as well as other faiths, and those holding no religious beliefs. We strive not to ignore our differences, but rather seek to understand each other honestly and respectfully, and together create a climate where anyone can openly discuss what they believe without fear of sanction. To that end, all persons who are willing to share in the spirit and the work of the Great Commitments as shaped by its preamble are welcome to study, to teach, and to work at Berea

Labor Supervision:
In support of Berea College’s great commitments, staff and faculty serve as labor supervisors. Our fourth great commitment, The Dignity of Labor, promotes learning and serving in community through the student Labor Program, honoring the dignity and utility of all work, mental and manual, and taking pride in work well done. Student Labor Supervision includes scheduling, assigning, and approving student work, developing students' workplace acumen, and providing tangible work experience. To learn more about the labor program office please see the following link Labor Program Office.