Project Staff Assistant

Project Staff Assistant

Required Qualifications (as evidenced by an attached resume):
Bachelor's degree (foreign equivalent or higher) in a related field. Two (2) years of full-time administrative experience.

Preferred Qualifications:
Master’s degree (foreign equivalent or higher) in a related field. Three (3) years of full-time administrative experience. Experience using Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, Power Point). Experience managing Outlook calendar. Demonstrated ability to multitask.

Brief Description of Duties:
This position is responsible for providing administrative, educational, financial, and procedural support for a department and its clinical practice office.

Duties:

Administrative Support & Oversight:

• Oversees and coordinates administrative and support functions essential to the daily operations of the department and clinical practice office.
• Provides comprehensive operational support for the department.
• Maintains and updates the department website.
• Manages maintenance, repair, and IT requests, ensuring timely follow-ups.
• Leads department-wide efforts to digitize and scan all paper files.
• Handles all aspects of processing departmental Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure (APT) packets, including onboarding new faculty and voluntary faculty members.
• Collaborates with the department administrator on personnel matters.
• Manages supply orders for faculty and staff, maintains department inventory, and oversees conference room scheduling and availability.

Department Education Coordination:

• Works directly with the department chair to support her educational roles in the medical school and residency program, overseeing activities for 130 students and 8 residents.
• Provides comprehensive program support for the department chair’s scholarly activities.
• Manages the compilation and coordination of final grades for medical students in a yearlong course with multiple components, including narrative evaluations from clinical sites, multiple-choice exams, and small group participation grades.
• Oversees the review and coordination of teaching assistant applications, researches materials, and prepares faculty meeting and small group activity materials.
• Coordinates faculty meetings, OSCE schedules, teaching assistant meetings, and student small group sessions.
• Prepares course agendas and semester overviews, manages related correspondence, and arranges off-site clinical site visits.
• Organizes all teaching meetings and maintains accurate student assignments, deadlines, grades, and course-related updates using CBase and EPortfolio.

Budgeting:

• Manages the department’s purchasing and financial operations, ensuring accuracy and efficiency in all transactions.
• Oversees the preparation, processing, and tracking of requisitions while maintaining department inventory.
• Prepares and processes personnel forms, monitors expenditures, analyzes and reconciles accounts, and generates monthly financial reports.
• Assists in overseeing departmental IFR accounts, projecting expenditures, and supporting revenue forecasting.
• Collaborates with the department administrator to ensure revenue goals are met and reconciles monthly cash reports.
• Maintains accurate financial records for budget preparation, programmatic reporting, and financial analysis, ensuring data is readily available.

Policy & Procedure:

• Develops policies as needed to support clinical administration and office operations.
• Implements administrative procedures to optimize the efficiency and effectiveness of department and clinic functions.
• Communicates and collaborates with internal and external stakeholders to ensure alignment with departmental and campus policies and procedures.

Other duties as assigned.

Special Notes:
The Research Foundation of SUNY is a private educational corporation. Employment is subject to the Research Foundation policies and procedures, sponsor guidelines and the availability of funding. FLSA Exempt position, not eligible for the overtime provisions of the FLSA. Minimum salary threshold must be met to maintain FLSA exemption.

Essential Position: This has been designated as an essential position based on the duties of the job and the functions performed. Positions that are designated as such may be required to report to work/remain at work even if classes are canceled, and the campus is working on limited operations in an emergency.

Evening and weekend work may be required at times.

For this position, we are unable to sponsor candidates for work visas.

Resume/CV and cover letter should be included with the online application.

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The starting salary range (or hiring range) to be offered for this position is noted below, it represents SBU’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.

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