Summer Temporary Data Operations Assistant

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Description

The Temporary Data Operations Assistant serves as a member of the Systems Management & Data Operations Team and assists with the daily tasks of cataloging inventory, assembling outgoing mail, opening and sorting incoming mail, making campus deliveries and scanning incoming documents using office equipment.

Your Key Responsibilities

• Serve on the Systems Management & Data Operations Team
• Assist in assembling outgoing mail activities including daily outgoing mail, direct mail campaigns, and complex mass mailings
• Make campus deliveries and other office errands as needed
• Scan incoming documents using office equipment
• Taking and retrieving admissions mail to and from the college post office
• Opening and sorting incoming mail
• Assist in the organization, movement, and updating of the office print and publication inventory as needed
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

What You'll Bring

Education required to ensure success in this position:

• Some high school required
• High school degree preferred
  
  

Experience required to ensure success in this position:

• Strong oral and written communication skills required
• Office environment experience preferred
• General office equipment operation experience is preferred
  
  

Special skills, knowledge and abilities:

• Strong attention to detail in data entry and compiling outgoing communication
• Strong consistency, reliability and punctuality skills
  
  

License, certification, or registration necessary:

• Valid driver's license preferred
• Required background checks
  
  

Physical requirements:

• Sitting, standing, walking, ability to lift and carry up to 30 lbs.
• Ability to navigate campus/public buildings and grounds
  
  

Environmental conditions:

• Professional office environment with frequent interruptions by staff.
  
  

Ability to operate the following vehicles or equipment:

• Golf Carts
• Standard office equipment: computer, fax, phone, etc.
  
  

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. If you think you are ready to be a part of an exciting team, then we encourage you to continue with this applicant friendly, online job application!

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.