Academic Assistant II

Job Details

Job

Location:

Atlanta, Georgia

Contract type:
Full-Time

Regular/Temporary:
Regular

Overview Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship.

Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security.

Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Department Information The Woodruff School graduates high caliber mechanical engineers for a demanding profession. Mechanical engineers are the foundation of todays technological world. To do so, we provide enhanced facilities and laboratories to create the best learning environment and we attract outstanding faculty and students. In this period of rapid technological change, the Woodruff School produces mechanical engineers who are vital to our future.

With approximately 3,000 students, 100 faculty members, and 80 staff members, the Woodruff School is one of the largest mechanical engineering programs in the country. We are consistently ranked as one of the top 10 mechanical engineering programs in the U.S. at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and continuously innovate to keep our school at the forefront of engineering education.

Our size and resources allow us to offer a diversity of educational and research opportunities that enable us to produce highly sought after engineering professionals.

Provide support related to academic administration within a college, school or other academic unit. Work involves administrative duties to include scheduling, recordkeeping, customer service, maintaining files and related duties. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: students, faculty, staff, parents, alumni and the general public. This position typically will advise and counsel: NA. This position will supervise: NA.

• Job Duty 1:
  Provide graduate and undergraduate students information regarding academic records, processes and policies.
• Job Duty 2:
  Update student records and files.
• Job Duty 3:
  Perform various academic related clerical /administrative activities such as ordering transcripts, collecting and processing student documentation, etc.
• Job Duty 4:
  Perform general clerical duties such as preparing mass mailings and maintaining office supplies.
• Job Duty 5:
  Provide customer service through greeting visitors, scheduling appointments and providing information.
• Job Duty 6:
  Perform other duties as assigned.

• High school diploma, GED Certificate or Vocational School Diploma

• Four to five years of job related experience

• Associate's Degree, Technical Diploma or two years college course work

• This job requires skills in general administrative support as applied within an academic office to include skills in organization, oral and written communication, problem-solving and customer service. Use of office related computer applications is required.

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 25 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an…