Administrative Assistant II

Overview

Administrative Assistant II (Open) – Department:
Military Science, PM. Regular position.

Open Date: 07-14-2026

Close Date: not specified

• Performs various administrative duties relating to military personnel involving the composition and distribution of correspondence, publications, reports, special orders, etc. Maintains office files, publication library, e-mail, and control of mail.
• Coordinates with the university to schedule facilities for events (e.g., Awards, Commissioning, Military Ball and classrooms).
• Supports the Professor of Military Science by providing clerical, scheduling and People Soft course maintenance assistance while keeping ROTC staff and Cadre informed of academic calendar and related campus deadlines.
• Submits course descriptions to the Registrar’s Office for changes and updates to course descriptions every semester/quarter.
• Creates and manages cadet military personnel records and ensures the correct documentation (enrollment forms, planned academic worksheet, birth certificate, copy of SSN card, contracts, privacy act statements, medical forms, security clearance, transcripts, life insurance, emergency contact and banking direct deposit forms) are present and correct in accordance with Army Regulations.
• Prepares enrollment and contract documents for students enrolling in the basic and advanced courses, including requesting transcripts for new individuals pursuing ROTC and ensuring GPA criteria meets standards.
• Resolves procedural and regulatory questions concerning enrollment, contractual documents, medical qualifications and mandatory requirements. Coordinates and schedules physical examinations, consultations including remedial and inoculations.
• Monitors Cadet life cycle performance and academic transcripts, transfer of credit, GPA, Tuition and Fees, academic major, class rolls and student contact information to ensure continued compliance with eligibility and commissioning requirements.
• Advises instructors on Cadet academic performance and eligibility. Assists in preparation of individual academic degree plans for tracking academic progression. Prepares and manages Cadet Actions including disenrollments, waivers, and medical. Assists with extension of benefits, transfers, academic major change requests and CLC deferments.
• Ensures necessary forms are processed for scholarship selection cycles and schedules applicants to appear before scholarship selection boards. Explains obligatory requirements of the Senior ROTC program to scholarship winners, the financial expenses they will incur, and allowable reimbursable expenses.
• Manages/monitors department budget to include invoices, spreadsheets, budget printouts, and inputting purchase requisitions in accordance with BSU policy.
• Supervises cadets for annual events, programs, and related activities as needed.
• Manages student-workers, Cadet interns and assigned Cadet battalion aids to complete required projects, assignments and activities, including quarterly newsletter, event program booklets, multimedia, program marketing materials and related tasks.
• Briefs department personnel daily on administrative workload and suspense dates; conducts weekly inventory of departmental equipment/supplies and reorders as needed; maintains departmental files using the Modern Army Record Keeping System (MARKS).
• Performs other duties as assigned.

High School Diploma or GED required. Minimum three (3) years administrative/secretarial support experience required. Experience using Microsoft Office data management and spreadsheet functions.

People Soft 9.0 data management system experience preferred.

Benefits include medical, dental, prescription, long-term disability, accidental death and dismemberment insurance and life insurance; paid time for paid sick leave, annual leave, and personal leave; 12 paid holidays per year, tuition remission; employer-funded pension and supplemental retirement accounts.

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