TES Administrative Support Assistant

Overview

The College of Liberal Arts’ History Department is looking for a TES Administrative Support Assistant. This position provides administrative support and general clerical support within the History Department in the College of Liberal Arts with responsibility for a broad variety of office and project support duties and tasks.

Temporary Employment Services (TES), a unit of the Auburn University Department of Human Resources, is an in‑house support center established to meet the temporary employment needs of the university.

TESprovides qualified and dedicated temporary employees in a wide variety of occupations to meet the staffing needs throughout the campus. Temporary employees are hired for a variety of reasons with the most common being:

• Assistance in the place of a regular employee who is absent for a specified period of time
• Additional assistance during periods of abnormal or peak workloads
• Assistance with special projects
• Seasonal work
• Emergencies

If you are looking for an employment opportunity,TESis a great way to showcase your professional skills and assist Auburn University while gaining valuable work experience within higher education.

AU student employees are not eligible forTES.

• Performs multiple duties which are a mix of administrative and clerical in nature, which may include, but are not limited to data gathering, data management, correspondence, filing, event scheduling, registration, and answering the phone
• Provides payroll processing, travel/expense voucher processing, as well as other expenditure processing.
• Advises faculty, staff, and students of standard policies or procedures.
• Acts as a liaison to other departments, and students on behalf of manager, director, or department head.
• May perform some administrative duties which may include, but are not limited to recruitment coordination, preparation of reports/documents/presentations, or coordination of complex projects or events.
• As an academic position, duties may also include but are not limited to maintaining grades/registration and administrative issues related to student academic or financial status.

High school diploma or equivalent

• Basic computer skills
• Excellent communication skills

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