Assistant Director, President's Office Administration (Project Management Specialist)

PRESIDENT'S OFFICE (UA-PRES-IUINA)

The Assistant Director of President's Office Administration (Project Management Specialist) is a fast-paced position providing scheduling and logistical support for the President while supporting administrative functions of the Office of the President. The person in this position will confidently balance team and individual responsibilities while collaborating with a variety of stakeholders, ensuring collective success daily. The position will report to the Executive Director of President's Office Administration.

Department-Specific Responsibilities

• Serves as the primary in-person staffer for the President at the Indianapolis location of the Office of the President, ensuring all logistics for daily engagements are accurately executed.
• Collaborates on scheduling for the President, including arranging domestic and international travel.
• Coordinates resources for the President's schedule, such as staffing, security, space, briefings, and communications.
• Supports administrative functions of the office, such as correspondence, events, financial processing, file/data management, opening/closing, reception, inventory, and other areas as needed.
• Assists with collecting, curating, analyzing, and reporting information.
• Contributes to special projects as assigned and takes on responsibilities beyond the scope of the job description as needed.
• Develops and manages relationships with a wide variety of internal and external university stakeholders, communicating with diplomacy, sensitivity, and timeliness.
• Maintains confidentiality, discretion, and trust regarding sensitive matters.
  
  

General Responsibilities

• Manages large projects of the most complex nature, from start to finish, ensuring on time completion within budget.
• Analyzes, tracks, forecasts, and reports on project metrics and shortfalls.
• Communicates ongoing changes in tasks, goals, or performance; supervises and trains project staff as needed.
• Develops and maintains project schedules, goals, and communication.
• Matrix manages teams to develop, evaluate, and revise project processes.
• Collaborates with other departments to ensure that project objectives are achieved within established time frames.
• Participates in client meetings, contract finalization, and development of requirements and specifications.
• Provides guidance and support to less experienced peers.
  
  

Combinations of related education and experience may be considered. Education beyond the minimum required may be substituted for work experience. Work experience beyond the minimum required may be substituted for education.

EDUCATION

Required

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
  
  

Required

WORK EXPERIENCE

• 5 years of relevant experience
  
  

Preferred

• 3 years of experience in higher education administration
• Some experience in collecting, curating, analyzing, and reporting simple quantitative data
• Some experience providing administrative support in a high-profile environment with courtesy, professionalism, diplomacy, efficiency, and confidentiality
  
  

Skills

Required

• Ability to drive multiple projects to successful completion
• Demonstrated project management skills
• Proficient communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Excellent collaboration and team building skills
• Demonstrated time management and priority setting skills
• Highly thorough and dependable
• Ability to lead/manage others
  
  

Preferred

• Proficient in Microsoft Office, including Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including with grammar, spelling, and composition
• Well-organized and detail oriented
• Proven interpersonal skills
• Ability to work under moderate supervision
• Ability to set own work sequence and pace within process limitations, as well as a self-starter with the ability to take direction and feedback from supervisor, as needed
• Ability to take initiative, anticipate needs, and ensure consistent high-quality results
• Ability to act promptly, during nontraditional hours, and follow through in response to requests
  
  

The position requires communication (email, phone, text, etc.) outside of normal business hours and infrequent travel to other IU campuses.

This role requires the ability to effectively communicate and to operate a computer and other standard office productivity equipment. The position involves sedentary work as well as periods of time moving around an office environment and the campus. The person in this role must be able to perform the essential functions with or without an accommodation.

This role offers valuable experience in higher education leadership, resource management, and continuous professional development. The person in this position will be excited by the challenge of achieving competing goals, navigating uncertainty, reacting under pressure, and responding to difficult situations.

Indianapolis, Indiana

IU Indianapolis campus

This is an in-person position.

For full-time staff employees, Indiana University offers a wide array of benefits including:

• Comprehensive medical and dental insurance
• Health savings account with generous IU contributions
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending accounts
• Basic group life insurance paid by IU
• Voluntary supplemental life, long-term disability, critical illness, and supplemental accidental death & dismemberment insurance
• Base retirement plan with generous IU contributions, subject to vesting
• Voluntary supplemental retirement plan options
• Tuition subsidy for employees and family members taking IU courses
• 10 paid holidays plus a paid winter break each year
• Generous paid time off plans
• Paid leave for new parents and IU-sponsored volunteer events
• Employee assistance program (EAP)
  
  

Learn more about our benefits by reviewing the IU Benefit Programs Brochure.

Career Level: Advanced

FLSA: Exempt

Job Function: General Administration

Job Family: Project Management

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