Administrative Associate V

Job Title

Administrative Associate V

Agency

Texas A&M University

Department

Environmental Health & Safety

Proposed Minimum Salary

Commensurate

Job Location

College Station, Texas

Job Type

Staff

Job Description

A Glimpse of the Job

The Administrative Associate V is responsible for coordinating daily office support activities and administrative interactions, maintaining administrative records, coordinating meetings, greeting visitors, distributing mail, tracking administrative metrics, and ordering supplies.

Essential Duties

Administrative Support

• Coordinates daily office support activities and administrative interactions
• Assists in the coordination of daily work flow and the resolution of complex, highly sensitive and confidential matter
• Coordinates the maintenance of files, records, office supplies, or equipment
• Maintain office supply inventory and order office supplies as needed

Coordinate meetings

• Coordinate departmental staff meetings, manage calendars for room reservations, order business meals as necessary
• Maintain meeting logs, take, and publish meeting notes, provide assistance with scheduling meetings, guest speakers
• Organize information and materials for distribution

Customer Service

• Answer EHS main line and direct phone calls
• Acts as the point of contact for internal and external clients
• Distribute mail
• Responds to departmental personnel and customer inquiries via email
• Provide general support to visitors
• Gather information for the emergency response phone calls that come in during normal business hours to provide to the team on-call

Business Support

• Create invoices or requisitions for review to the Department of Finance for Operations
• Maintains fiscal and administrative records
• Provides travel support with gas and travel cards
• Serves as back up support for EHS based finance and operations tasks

Assist with departmental administration

• May assist with administration of contracts and summary reports
• Composes correspondence
• Assists with administration of unit, program, or project
• Maintain work anniversaries and birthday databases
• Interacts with IT to update internal directory
• Assists with coordinating student worker tasks
• Makes recommendations for process improvements, administrative changes, or new initiatives

What You Need to Know

Salary: $19.62/hour

Cover Letter/Resume: A cover letter and resume will assist us in our review of your application materials. These can be uploaded on the application under CV/Resume.

Required Education and Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Five years of experience in general office or clerical work

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet, and database applications
• Ability to multitask and work cooperatively with others
• Excellent written communication, analytical, interpersonal, and organizational skills
• Ability to work in a high stress environment
• Ability to work with sensitive information and maintain confidentiality
• Ability to work independently once given a project

Other Requirements and Factors

• This position is security sensitive
• This position requires compliance with state and federal laws/codes and Texas A&M University System/TAMU policies, regulations, rules and procedures
• All tasks and job responsibilities must be performed safely without injury to self or others in compliance with System and University safety requirements

Instructions to Applicants: Applications received by Texas A&M University must either have all job application data entered or a resume attached. Failure to provide all job application data or a complete resume could result in an invalid submission and a rejected application. We encourage all applicants to upload a resume’ or use a LinkedIn profile to pre-populate the online application.

All positions are security-sensitive. Applicants are subject to a criminal history investigation, and employment is contingent upon the institution’s verification of credentials and/or other information required by the institution’s procedures, including the completion of the criminal history check.

Equal Opportunity/Veterans/Disability Employer.